Go Raptors Go!

by Dale Walsh

Because of the Toronto Raptors historic 2019 NBA Championship win over the Golden State Warriors I have decided to send all my images this round from that fair city. Interiors are Fuji Velvia RVP 100F and exteriors are Provia RDP III taken with the TL 120.

Ontario College of Art And Design It kind of looks like they wanted to preserve the building underneath and stuck this one on top of it.

Roger’s Toronto Late Afternoon.  This is a cha-cha and I got pretty lucky with the lack of clouds and so not much movement between shutter clicks in the bottom although I just noticed a ladder or small crane in one image and not in the other one. I took a bunch at sunset but they are unviewable because of the cloud movements in the sky. This was taken from the balcony of  by brother’s appartement very close to the centre of the city which is basically Yonge and Bloor streets.

Stained Glass Silhouette Inside St. James Cathedral on Church Street. Tried to expose for the stained glass windows but maybe a touch too dark.

Scared Arts : Painting, Music and Sculpture. Inside St. James Cathedral on Church Street

Ian Andvaag d21 submission

by Ian Andvaag

Beechy Sand Castle

Hyper Hills

The first two images I have submitted were taken last summer at a unique location here in Saskatchewan called the Beechy Sand Castle and Sunken Hill. There are a couple of quarter sections of ranch land near the inlet of Lake Diefenbaker on the south Saskatchewan river that are home to some interesting land formations. It’s on private land, but the owner is gracious enough to allow visitors to come and hike around the area. Legend has it that an underground gas pocket collapsed,  causing the land to give way.  One day, the rancher went to check his cattle, and the tracks left by his truck a few days prior led right into the crater of the Sunken Hill!

The location is only accessible during dry conditions, since you have to drive through a field to get there. It was very hot the day I went and also quite smoky from forest fires out west in British Columbia. After walking around a bit and seeing the lay of the land, I knew I wanted to try out some hypers, but I had neither a laser rangefinder, nor Mike Davis’ stereobase calculator. I tried some anyway, but as you can see by my slipshod cutting to expand a panoramic mount, I didn’t get it quite right. Most of the hypers I took had very distracting retinal rivalry in the water, but this one didn’t seem quite as off-putting for whatever reason. This summer I have a goal to get a working system for hypers using two Agfa Isolettes.

Smell the Roses

Frosting

The other two slides are from my city, Saskatoon, on one of the few days of the year that we get hoarfrost. It’s always so beautiful and it’s one of my favourite things to photograph in MF3D. I titled the one slide “Smell the Roses”, because the frost can make even a pile of overgrown weeds in an industrial district look pretty, and it seems like many people don’t stop to take notice.

Now that I’ve got a workable B&W reversal process, I’m more motivated to shoot black and white. Hope you enjoy!

Snowmen

by Paul Shay

I  took these slides on the first day of spring, March 21, 2018. For those of you from balmier climes, yes, there can be this much snow in Montreal on the first day of spring.  These snowmen had melted a little, and were starting to lose the form and details bestowed initially by their young creators. A couple of them have lost their eyes. Some of their features are starting to look a bit abstract. I initially saw them as somewhat nostalgic relics from the long winter we had been through, perhaps on a smaller time scale the way ruins remind us of a long-gone past, like the statues on Easter Island. My wife found them scary, as though they had escaped from a horror movie, and the more I examined them, the more I could see her point of view. Shot with a Heidoscop on a tripod with Fuji Provia 100F film. Exposures were as follows:

Snowman with a cap and scarf –  1/50th @ f25.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snowman with small head – 1/20th @ f25.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snowman with scarf and toque – 1/25th @ f25.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snowman whose grapefruit eyes fell off – 1/40th @ f25.

 

 

 

 

 

Don Lopp d20 submission

by Don Lopp

Note: Don Lopp passed away February 24, 2019. Bob Venezia has graciously continued to allow Don’s slides to circulate.

This is Don Lopp’s contribution for loop d20, grandfathered in from loop 20 of MF3D Folio II managed by Brian Reynolds.

Mt. Shuksan. 10-02. Velvia 50. Pol 22.0

Botanical Garden. Bellevue, WA. Velvia 50, f/22. Home-made camera – obviously inferior lenses from 1950s.

Bald Eagle. Provia f22.0 Heidoscope.

Pike Place Market – Tossing Salmon. 6/97. Heidoscope f16.0 Astia.

Jim Harp d20 submission

by Jim Harp

This is Jim Harp’s contribution for loop d20, grandfathered in from loop 20 of MF3D Folio II managed by Brian Reynolds.

San Francisco. 5/17. Twin Mamiya c-220s, 135mm lenses.

Chicken of the Sea. 6/17. TL-120, Coney Island Mermaid P.

Pink Mermaid. 6/17.TL-120 with Vivitar 285H Fill Flash.

Ghost Child/twilight. 5/12. TL-120, Kaohsiung – (Taiwan).

Left and Right

by John Thurston

Right Side

If the Juneau tourists get a bus to the Mendenhall Glacier, a mile long walk along the willows on the lake shore will bring them to the bottom of Nugget Creek. It offers a nice waterfall, and good view of the glacier.We’ve been here before.

Left Side

And if one walks several miles up the “left” side of the lake, and climbs a little, it is much quieter and less crowded.  Not many unguided tourists make it this far up the trail, so when I meet one I try to make them feel welcome. If the lenses in your viewer are good, you can see the crowd of tourists on the beech at the base of the waterfall.

Twenty years ago, all the open water in both images was ice. The face of the glacier was just past the rightmost iceberg in the second image. At that time, the bedrock was below more than 100′ of ice, and Nugget Falls disappeared under the edge of the glacier.

Both images are from my TL120, Nugget Falls has been captured with Kodak E100G rather than my usual Provia.

Town and Tours

by John Thurston

So Many Choices

Juneau is historically a gold town. More recently, it is a tourist town. On a ‘good’ day, cruise ships can deliver more than 15,000 passengers to shore. And when all those people get ashore, they need to find something to do. Most of the ships work hard to sell package tours on board to their captive audience, but there are still folks on the sidewalks ready to help put tourists on buses out to the glacier or to another dock where they can grab a whale-watch tour.

Whales, Whales, Whales

Most of the vendors are seasonal workers. They arrive from Outside at the start of the season, rent their booth, and sell tours on commission. They’re assertive, but friendly. I’m not often mistaken for a tourist (wrong clothing and not enough tan), but when I am I listen to their pitch before turning them down.

Both of these are from my TL120 on Provia.

Down the Throat

by John Thurston

As a bonus image, I’m including a little bit of blue. Like all of my under-glacier images, the light is dim and the location is long gone.

I’m standing in the stream which has cut its way under the ice. The ground is gravel over bedrock, and the deeper one goes the thicker the layer of gravel is. By this point, the gravel is thick enough so the stream is completely contained in the gaps between the stones. The running water carries heat under the ice which creates a gap. Then warm air start to move through and widen the gaps. The color variation in the ceiling is from the variation in thickness and sand content.

I’ve tried several times to try to duplicate this image by print and by film. In call cases, the color reproduction has stymied me. The colors reproduced by the film are not easily obtainable in any of the ink or film-recorder color spaces I’ve tried. I’ll try again in a few more years. Until then, please enjoy this original with all of its subtle colors.

Enter The Dragon Folio

by Ian Andvaag
Adapted from “A Complete Guide to Heraldry” by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

To provide a bit of history, originally there were two independently organized sets of folios:

  • “MF3D Folio I” managed first by Greg Erker, and later by Sam Smith.
  • “MF3D Folio II” managed by Brian Reynolds.

The comments page for both sets of folios was a custom-written piece of software by Joel Alpers. When John  Thurston took over the management of “MF3D Folio I – Alpha”  from Sam Smith in 2008, he went looking for an comments solution with a few more features than the jkalpers comment page. John ultimately developed this comments site powered by WordPress. When John assumed management of “Folio I – Beta” in 2009, its comments were also re-hosted here. Beta was retired in 2012, and its members rolled into Alpha.

The jkalpers comments page had continued to be used by “MF3D Folio II” up until early 2017, when the site went down. Tragically, the source code and admin password to the server running the software were lost, along with the archive of the many years of comments.  The folio continued on for a while without a comments solution. In April 2019, Brian Reynolds transferred management of “MF3D Folio II” to me.

At this time, John generously offered to expand this WordPress site to be able to host comments from “MF3D Folio II”, so once again all of the active MF3D folio comments pages are consolidated in one place. The “MF3D Folio II” was renamed “Dragon Folio” under the suggestion of Boris Starosta. This name was chosen as to not be confused with the other active folio at the time of this writing, “Folio A”.

Here’s to many successful years of MF3D folios!

Atlantis Books

by Jon Hoggatt

Atlantis Book store on one of the Greek Islands. I must have opened up one stop from Sunny 16 to keep from losing all detail in the shaded store entrance. So, the stark white walls are almost blocked up, but I had to do it -what an amazing scene! I left that Tilley Hat on the airplane, coming home.