Shot with a Sputnik Ilford Pan-F processed by DR-5 Dublin 2006
This was a three to four minute exposure. You have to look for my face in here, it’s floating in space just to the left of the base of the statue. I opened the shutter with a locking cable release, walked up to the statue and held a Vivitar 285H pointed at my face at arm’s length and fired it.
Everyone except the boy seems quite serious about their trek across the wide expanse of sand to or from the seashore, oblivious of the guy with the funny camera.
Original slide shot during the summer of 2002 with a tripod-mounted Sputnik with Provia 100P, exposure unrecorded.
There is something contradictory about lifeguards. They represent authority and serious responsibility but also good times, youth and summer. There are long periods of idleness interspersed with action and occasionally crisis. The serious gaze of the lifeguard in the foreground is echoed by the people behind him, while the lifeguard on the chair faces the other way as she blows a warning on her fluorescent orange whistle.
Original slide shot during the summer of 2002 with a tripod-mounted Sputnik with Provia 100P, exposure unrecorded.
Fuji RAP, f11 (?), 1 sec. exposure in available light, using Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner. Camera stabilized on walkway/surface of bridge. Slide in folio is original film.
Cycling over the Williamsburg bridge to visit someplace in Brooklyn, I took interest in the elaborate riveted steel trusswork along the way. It was very cold, and I had no tripod. I placed the camera on ground and tried to stabilize it with a pocket knife acting as a shim to get the angle. Aim and thus composition was guesswork. I would have wanted a longer exposure/smaller aperture, but the rig was shaky, so I dared not. Luckily, it was wintertime, so the traffic was light, and I was not reported to the TSA or other anti-terrorist authorities as a person of suspicion – it’s sad what one has to be afraid of these days.
Sputnik – Provia 100 – F22 1/50th sec
At the high point of a hike that took us up about to about a 1000 foot elevation to an overlook of Bozeman, MT.
Sputnik – Techpan
Beautiful coast line in the Big Sur area of the California coast.
Sputnik (don’t remember the film, aperture, etc.)
I submitted a B/W Techpan version of this a few folios ago. I don’t think that I submitted a color one.
This was taken with the sputnik at Prince Edward Island. I believe the year was 2005.
This image was made several years ago at Brazos Bend State Park (Texas) where my alligator shots all come from. I think I used a sputnik and most likely used tech pan. I have no idea what settings were used on the camera.
This is from my early days with my “Don-Lopp-modified-Sputnik.” We try to visit NYC every other year during the winter holidays. This is from a late-night visit to the NYC library. I spot metered around the scene. It’s quite dark there at night, with a little bit of ambient light from the traffic.
Provia 100F, f22, 80 seconds.
All of these images were taken with my Sputnik which was tuned/rebuilt by Ted Baskin. All taken with tripod. The exposure is unrecorded but most likely using f/32 (or whatever is all the way past f/22 on my Spud) and 1/25 second on Provia 100.
All photos – Sputnik, ISO 400
Sputnik F22
This was taken with a sputnik in February, quite a few years ago, at one of the great lakes. It should have been very windy and unbearably cold. I was hoping to take some winter pictures. But it was warm and calm in spite of my having a stereo camera with me.
This is the living room of the Arthouse, a bed and breakfast where I stay whenever I’m in New York (unless they are booked up). They do no advertising and let their rooms out only to artists that have been personally introduced through friends. So it’s a bit exclusive, I guess… There are five rooms of various sizes, and 2.5 baths that the guests share.
Every morning, breakfast is included, and one typically finds guests from overseas, often from Germany or nearby central 
European countries, Spain, Mexico, or other countries in South America. Sometimes the guests are so interesting, you hardly need to see the rest of the city. I stay there once or twice a month, because I have a part-time job driving a coach bus to and from NYC from Charlottesville. I always bring my bicycle.
Fuji RXP, f16 (?), 1 sec. exposure in available light, using Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner. Camera stabilized by holding up against a wall. Slide in folio is original film.