White sandstone formations in the area of the Pillars of Silence
This one reminds me of old-school halloween costumes. All you need is a sheet.
This was taken in the same area as my image, “Approaching the Pillars” from the last round. I hired a photo guide out of Page, Arizona and he would take me around to great spots each morning and evening.
Taken with the TL-120.
Krumlov Tower
Everywhere you go in this UNESCO protected town there is a great potential for photographers. The narrow lanes and medieval buildings also make for plenty of deep stereo subjects. This image was shot hand held on the fly at 1/125 on Provia 100f. I set the aperture while metering through the lens of my TL120 and don’t remember what it was.
Krumlov Lane
Shot hand held f16 at 1/125 on Provia 100f using my TL120.
Czesky Krumlov has become a popular tourist attraction in the Czech Republic, but up until the Velvet Revolution in 1989, it was just another medieval town. this place is a target rich environment.
My wife is originally Czech, and we go there every year, so you can expect a lot of my stuff to be from there. We were in a hurry when we walked past this street scene. It looked so cozy, I wanted to capture that feel.
Timo Puhakka
At the back of the street car
Many years ago I took a shot with my Realist in the back of a taxi in Pakistan. I always liked the immersive qualities of that environment. I guess I tried to capture the same sensation in medium format. This is in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Chillin Shannon Falls
I liked the dappled light on the people at the base of Shannon Falls. Shannon Falls Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It is located 58 kilometers from Vancouver and 2 kilometers south of Squamish along the Sea to Sky Highway. How many people can you find?
Primary Colour Condos near the Vancouver Canucks building in the previous slide. Rather contrasty light.
Vancouver Canucks building near the downtown area. There seems to be a slight mis sync noticeable in the second passing vehicle.
What can I say?
Original slide shot in San Francisco August 25th, 2009 with handheld Heidoscop using Provia 100F exposed at 1/25th at f18.
I provided all the relevant data in the previous post on Bastrop State Park. 2011 Texas experienced a severe drought, over 300 million trees died. My photos do not begin to depict the severity of the wildfire in the park. The park will take decades to reco
ver. The Lost Pines of Texas near Bastrop are important as they are the westernmost edge of the species’ natural range.
All photos were shot with the TL120 and I used either Provia or Kodak 100. And they were handheld using natural light. F/stop not recorded nor remembered.
Today, we’re going back to the ice but we’re not going to move much once we get there. All of the images here were made within 50-feet of each other. The subject is a fairly stable ice cave. I say fairly because it was created by an active creek so there is water flowing into it. The ground is mud, silt, ice, and gravel and is sliding into the cave and under the glacier. The ceiling is made of ice and is full of mud, silt, and gravel and is falling onto the floor. While I was working, some nice ladies stopped in to visit the cave. I used my Fuji to get a set-the-scene snapshot.
Deep V
In The Groove
Just inside the cave, the layers of the ice are obvious. The younger ice is above, the older ice is denser and is funneling the melt water out to the edge. The running water has carved a Deep V in the ancient ice. The mud and sand is trapped between the layers of ice and is being washed down and dropped on the floor. When working under the ice, the water running down your back is really mud (of various dilutions).
A little to the right, and closer to the ice, In the Groove better shows the layers in the ice and the sand and silt trapped between them. We can also see melt water pouring in to join the creek farther inside the cave.
Farther in the cave but looking a little up, we can see Below the Surface(BW). There is sand and silt embedded inside the ice, and the layers are evident from the back just as well as the front. (Now’s a good time to wish we had carried a helmet with us. The roof is melting, remember?) Finally, we can move a little farther in and get in close. That sand in there has been trapped in the ice for a couple hundred years. It’s just itching to get out so it can slide down into my camera.
 Below the Surface (BW) |
 Below the Surface |
All images were created with a tripod mounted TL120-1. I don’t record exposure times but the fastest time used was 1 second. They were shot on Provia 100F, Provia 400X, or Ilford HP5.
Date: April 2012
Tech:
Available light exposure of 1 second on FUJI Provia RDPIII film, at f22, with a modified TL120 (65mm lenses) on loan from John Thurston. This is the original slide.
Notes:
Earlier this year I had the chance to photograph inside an old coal fired power plant. Chuck Holzner and I travelled to the plant three times with various MF and digital cameras, and this slide is just one of probably over a hundred made coming out of those expeditions. The plant is in Fork Union / Bremo Bluff, VA, and was built about 1930. It was the first plant to be built with an “automatic” central control room. That means that valves, pumps, and other control elements could be remote-controlled electrically from the control room. This plant was decommissioned in the 1950s and now sits adjacent a newer plant.
A shot of my brother Greg on a trip to Kyuquot in BC. I love the ability of stereo to resolve the “I’ve been away for a week fishing” look 🙂
A shot of Jim, the proud owner of a Citroen 2DV on our way back from the big Citroen meeting.
The Giant Wheel at the Evergreen State Fair is illuminated behind the Fun n Games concession.
This is the one shot of the Giant Wheel and Fun n Games that worked for me this year. †his image does have some retinal rivalry but I think it serves to give the image a bit of action and adds to the image.
Lighthouse on the Oregon Coast near Bandon
I didn’t get as many photo stops as I would have liked on my drive home from the NSA Convention in Costa Mesa. But I did find this cute lighthouse on the Oregon coast.