Hurricane Ike roared through Texas on September 13, 2008. Its path of destruction included Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula and Houston. Bolivar was nearly flattened, few structures remain. The Ballinese Ballroom was a Galveston landmark. Frank Sinatra even performed here! Here is a link to this famous ballroom built in the 1920’s: http://balineseroom.net/historyofBalinese.htm
The TL120 was used for this shot.
Note the rock with white-quartz knob
The top of that rock is in the lower right corner
While I know that all four of my images in the last loop from the Mendenhall Glacier, it is where my camera has most frequently been pointed in the past year. Experiencing the changing ice and witnessing the emergence of fresh ground is thrilling.
Back in June of 2007, I stood in the middle of a stream which had torn a hole in the side of the ice. The water was disappearing into the darkness under the glacier as it ran out to the lake. It was a bit disconcerting to make my way down the rock-face so I could stand in the stream of snow-melt and make the image. It would have been a wet, hypothermic climb had I been knocked down and over the edge 😛
A little over a year later, I stood in the same stream and was stunned by the change. I attempted another image from the same location as before, but found the composition totally boring. Instead, I brought the camera forward about eight feet. This was still in the stream, but my tripod had better footing and the composition had some foregound interest and receding lines. By chance, a rock from the earlier image is present in the lower right of the later image. It helps give an idea of how much has changed.
The first image was shot with my TL120-1 while the second was shot with my wide-angle TL120-55. Both cameras were tripod mounted.
Both images are mounted in 46x52mm (MFW) mounts from Rocky Mountain Memories. I really like the mount. The aperture is 2mm wider and 6mm taller than the normal 40×50 (MFL) mount. Give them a try if you can get your hands on any.
TL120-1 on a tripod
As my previous submission to the folio demonstrate, I have been exploring the freshly exposed ground left by the retreating Mendenhall glacier. What I find are features, shapes, textures and colors which have been exposed to us for no more than ten years. In some cases, the rock has exposed in the previous month and my feet and hands are some of the first things to touch the surface since the ice left.
This is a texture, shape and color study. I am fascinated by the sparkling mica and quartz, the conflicting contour lines and rock layers, and by the macro-scopically smooth shapes which closer study shows to be an extremely rough surface.
It was shot with my TL120-1 (so 80mm lenses) which was tripod mounted. I made exactly one exposure, but I’m pleased enough with the results that I want to make more.
Inlet on Georgian Bay
Shot with my TL-120 on a heavily overcast and hazy day with Provia 400X.