Taken at the 
2017 Minnesota State Fair.
TL-120, f/22, approximate exposure 2-3 sec, Provia 100.
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Midway View, Ferris Wheel
Taken at the 2017 Minnesota State Fair.
TL-120, f/22, approximate exposure 2-3 sec, Provia 100.
Yellow Lady’s Slippers
Taken along a trail in the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. TL-120, Provia 100, exposure unrecorded.
Anhinga at Shark Valley
Taken in 
the Shark Valley unit of Everglades National Park, April 2016.
TL-120, Provia 100, exposure unrecorded.
Awaiting Release
The Mendenhall is magnificent from a distance. It is spectacular if you can get up close and personal.
The ice has layers and threadsof dirt and sand which were washed down and embedded in the originating snow. As the glacier is pushed down the valley, the face melts away and the embedded dirt, sand, sticks, leaves, and silt are released. You should be suspicious of anyone selling you “crystal clear glacier ice” 🙂
Tripod mounted TL120-1, DR5-processed HP5
Learning the Ropes
The Mendenhall glacier is in a National Forest, so commercial exploitation is expected and encouraged. One business here hikes you to the ice. There, you don crampons and helmets before setting off on an ice-trek. Four hours earlier, these folks were probably disembarking from their cruise ship. Now they’re on the glacier and about to practice their fall-arrests.
This is a cool place to live.
Tripod mounted TL120-1, most likely done on Provia 100.
“Cos-Play” Comic-Con New York, October 2016
One of the many costumed attendees at the Comic-con.
I used a TL-120 with Vivitar 285H flash/plastic diffusor. Provia 100F pushed one stop. I love the”hyper-realistic” portraits the TL-120 can produce.
Kids at Paramount Ranch
Summer time at Paramount Ranch, Calabasas, CA is a wonderland for my family. We watch the Silents Under the Stars program put on by Hollywood Heritage and the National Park Service. I took this with the World 3D camera and it flarred so I cropped it. Left to right: Kevin is 8, Vincent 4, Emilie 6, and Valentine 5. Shot on Kodak EPR 64 Ektachrome.
Great Wall of China
This is the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall located 45 miles from Beijing. It is one of the most thoroughly restored segments of the wall.
Photographed with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop. No tripod, I get good results with this camera using a waist-level finder and letting it hang around my neck.
Steven Lederman – August 2016
“THE MISSING LINK” – I decided to submit this after being inspired by a negative image of Dorothy Mladenka’s in an earlier Folio loop, or in a different folio (MF3D II?). I actually shot this during work hours. I was hired to shoot an industrial video and decided to bring my TL-120-1 with me. After Principal Photography for the industrial video was completed, I wandered around the factory pretending to take production stills. I originally planned to get this roll developed by dr5 – but for some forgotten reason that didn’t occur. Captured with the aforementioned TL-120-1 on some type of Ilford black and white film. I believe I used a Vivitar 283 fill flash.
“STRUNG OUT” – one of the plusses of the TL-120-1 is its ability to capture greatly-detailed close-up portraits. This image was captured during a jam session of “The Ass Moles” on December 20, 2008. Despite the fact that we never released a commercially-available recording, we did commission Cal Schenkel (of Frank Zappa record cover art fame) to create a piece of Ass Moles-inspired art for us. TL-120-1 using Fuji Film (Provia?) with a Vivitar 283 flash.
“BARN TO BE WILD” – In 2014 I learned a slew of farms were slated for demolition so that condos could be erected on their land. This is one of the images from the resulting photo excursion that documented some of the doomed farm buildings. This image was captured with a TL-120-55 modified with Sam Smith’s machined lens board, using Scala film and processed in dr5’s DEV 2 (sepia).
“ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS FOR LIFE” – No need for an explanation. Captured with a TL-120-1 on Fuji 220 film using a modified winding sequence (with the red window gaffer taped shut). Processed with a CPP-2 Jobo unit in my basement bathroom.
Matt Neima – August 2016
Matt hasn’t shot alot of film lately, but still wanted to participate in this loop of the folio. Since members of Folio B haven’t seen any of his images, I suggested that I be allowed to pick out four slides from his past body of work for submission to the Folio. He agreed and asked me to curate. My image descriptions will also serve as my comments. Matt usually shoots with Fuji Provia 100F film (not for “Ferry Dock” of course), and a Sputnik. He has also owned two incarnations of the TL-120 – a TL-120-1, and a TL-120-55. As these selections span seven years, I’m not sure which camera or film was used for each one.
“Albion Falls” – captured in Hamilton, Ontario, Summer 2004 – I selected this shot for its composition, varied lighting, depth and detail. That particular area of Hamilton / Ancaster is home to a great number of waterfalls. Matt has captured a lovely rendering of one of them.
“Pretty Women” – Misha, Sandra and Kim, in Matt’s backyard, 2009 – I selected this image simply because I think it’s a great portrait. You can invent your own back stories for the expressions on the women’s faces. Thought went into the stereo composition – there are foreground elements, the main subjects, and a slightly soft background which serves to highlight the main subjects.
“Lake Huron” – captured in Pinery Provincial Park, 2010 – As you may know, it’s not easily to properly expose snow. Especially when it’s 30 below, ho ho ho. I like the repeating hilly motif from foreground to mid-shore.
“Self Titled (Ferry Dock)” – captured in Vancouver’s Ferry Market 2011 – I selected this image for the wonderful use of the dr5 process, the composition, subject matter and the sharpness of detail.
Matt died of cancer October 1, 2016. His generosity and support for his friends will be missed. [JRT October 3, 2016]
Corn Dogs and Lemonade
CNE midway
I spent a whole afternoon scouting angles for shooting time exposures at the Canadian National Exhibition midway. After I had shot two rolls of my well planned scenes, I had one frame left over. I quickly looked around for a nice angle and took this image to finish the roll. It was the best one of the lot. I feel quite fortunate that two spotlights on the corn dog stand were burnt out. Either one would have made this shot impossible, or at least very diminished.
TL-120, Provia 100f, f22, four second exposure (I’m pretty sure).
Electric Silhouette Alley – lower view
Taken with the TL 120 using Velvia 50. As I finished a guy ran out of the alley yelling at me a s I sped away! I guess he’s not a fan of 3D!
Sailboat, pier, logs, Squamish, BC
Taken with a TL 120 using FUJI RDP III
Flowers on Stone
Juneau is a gold mining town. 
Every where you turn, you find remnants of the placer and hard-rock mining. South of Juneau, a pier stand abandoned in the water. Its pilings are bleached and trees grow from its surface. On the shore stand the pillars which supported the rail-line out to the pier.
When it was a working facility, the ships from Seattle would dock here in Dupont to offload their cargo of dynamite. It would be trundled down the rail-line to an elevated warehouse along the shore. From there, smaller loads would be transported by boat to the mines in Treadwell, Douglas, and Juneau.
Excepting the iron bits, the pier, dock, and warehouse were built from local materials. This image may be better named, Flowers From Stone, as the concrete is covered with the efflorescence from the beach sand and gravel.
I tried to set the focus and aperture to let the distant pier fall out of focus. I think I could have opened the aperture a bit more.