In spring of 2012 we had a holiday in Asheville, North Carolina, for cycling on the road and in the mountains. It was beautiful. Though warned about the ghost, we elected to stay at the historic Cedarcrest Inn, where we got the Romeo Suite. Of course we tried to capture an image of the ghost, meeting with limited success using some long exposures in available light (thirty seconds!). Shot with Sputnik.
Sarah was one of my more productive models back in the day, with whom I was able to create possibly the most difficult (and most erotic!) imagery of my career. One day she let me know that she was getting a new tatoo on her back, so I invited myself over to get some snaps. Shot with Sputnik, handheld I think.
Concorde G-BOAD
This is an Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde on Pier 86 next to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.
The Concorde was a supersonic airliner that was operated by British Airways and Air France from 1976 through 2003. This particular aircraft (G-BOAD) holds the world record for a transatlantic flight from JFK to Heathrow. While the Intrepid museum ship and its pier were undergoing renovations a few years ago, this aircraft was on display at Floyd Bennett Field Gateway National Recreation Area in Brooklyn.
This was taken with a handheld (string monopod) Sputnik on Kodak E100G.
MiG-21PFM
This is a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21PFM on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.
The MiG-21 is a fighter interceptor designed and built in the Soviet Union. Having entered service in 1959, it is still serving in many countries.
This particular aircraft comes from the Polish Air Force, and although depicted in camoflage in this photo, is now in a high visibility scheme used during a NATO Tiger Meet competition.
This was taken with a handheld (string monopod) Sputnik on Kodak E100G.
F-8K Crusader
This is a Vought F-8K Crusader on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.
The F-8 Crusader was an air superiority fighter that served the US Navy from the late 1950s through the mid 1980s. A unique feature of the Crusader was its variable incidence wing. Rather than have a very nose high attitude during take off and landing the Crusader’s wing would be tilted up. You can see this where this aircraft’s squadron name (Sundowners VF-111) is painted on at the front of the wing. During normal flight this would be retracted flush with the fuselage.
The Crusader was also intended to be the last US Navy fighter to have a built in gun, and was therefore known as “The Last of the Gunfighters”. Two of the guns can be seen below the cockpit. Poor air-to-air performance by the Phantom II and early aircraft missles lead the US Air Force to add a gun to its version of the F-4, and the gun returned in the US Navy’s F-14 Tomcat.
A detatchment of the VF-111 Sundowners flying F-8C Crusaders served aboard the USS Intrepid for one deployment to Vietnam. Later, while flying the F-14 Tomcat, the Sundowners appeared in the movie Top Gun.
This was taken with a handheld (string monopod) Sputnik on Kodak E100G.
F-4N Phantom II
This is a McDonnell Douglas F-4N Phantom II on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.
The USS Intrepid served in the Pacific theater during WWII, as a recovery ship for the Mercury and Gemini space missions, and in the Vietnam War, before being retired and converted to a museum ship.
The F-4N was an updated fighter bomber that served the US Navy during the 1970s and 1980s. It was replaced by the Grumman F-14 Tomcat.
This was taken with a handheld (string monopod) Sputnik on Kodak E100G.
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Cross-Eye View of the MF3D view. I spotted this rather barren field on top of a big hill across from our hotel and couldn’t resist exploring. I was drawn to the amazing mature century plants in this cluttered back yard of a home to the left of the scene. Our tour guide proclaimed proudly that the construction crane was considered the national bird of Israel. There are several here. Made with my trusty Sputnik on Provia 100 Believe it or not, that’s it’s name. See that shows these same plants and the old rail-road station to the right.
Just driving around looking for 
something interesting to document in 3D – low and behold! This little church seems to have been dominated by this ominous grain storage operation. I shot two of these and mounted one straight and one pseudo, just for fun. Here is a cross-eye view of the one I put in the folio. So, you can view it “normal” (not pseudo) with a parallel screen viewer or free-view it. The desired effect is not nearly so pronounced here as it looking at the MF3D pair in a good viewer such as the Saturn Slide, IMHO. Made with the Sputnik on Provia 100.
Boris works the Spud, while Chuck took this Behind The Scenes shot from across the stream with the TL120-55.
And last not least the picture that came out of my Spud about the same time that Chuck took his Behind The Scenes shot.
Chuck Holzner was a onetime contributor to the MF3d folios, and we occasionally worked together on a project. Here we are in the St. Mary’s Wilderness, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, about five years ago? He joined me and my model for a fairly strenuous hike to find some nice situations where we could photograph lovely Maia, who was a champ trooping along in the woods for several hours. We were heavily laden with cameras and snacks and water! He brought his sputnik, I brought my sputnik plus a TL120-55 on loan from John Thurston (many thanks!), plus a couple of digital cameras, and all the necessary tripods. Thus armed, lots of silly pictures got made.
(by the way, the tag “BTS” stands for Behind The Scenes)
Six or so years ago, when I first pursued the notion of shooting a homage to “Fred with Tires” by Herb Ritts, I made a version with my beloved M at the local Community Bikes shop. Our little boy was just a few months old and he got to watch the whole session from his portable playpen, just out of frame in this view. This was likely shot with a sputnik.
Kolkata is a very interesting city in India to visit. It doesn’t even remotely feel like Delhi, or even Mumbai for that matter. In fact, it feels like a whole different country comparatively. Being a colonial capitol at one point, it has a different ‘air’ to it. But it still has it’s alleyways, busy shopping and dealers districts. This picture was taken in an area that was very close to the house that Mother Teresa had founded to help the sick and the poor in India. We may have even visited her grave the same day that this shot was taken. I would love to go back and photograph these areas again with their endless streams of people going about their daily lives. This was one of those shots where I looked down an alleyway and had to get a shot of it. There are endless photo ops in India, but the alleyways are especially nice in 3D in my opinion. Shot with my Sputnik on Fuji Provia 100F film.
The Pak Ou Caves are located along the Mekong River near the town of Pak Ou in Laos. We visited this area near Luang Prabang, with Luang Prabang being one of my favorite places I have ever visited in Southeast Asia. The cave itself wasn’t very big, and the fact that it was filled with tiny Buddhist statues from many worshipers over many years made it seem even smaller. Luckily there was enough light that was coming in from the entrance to get this shot. What makes this one of my favorite shots I took of this location, was that you could see the smoke rising from the incense and the tiny fire in the lower part of the frame. My Sputnik failed me a little in this picture however, in the fact that it was sharper on the foreground in the right image, and sharper in the background in the left image. The image still works for me as 3D, but it may not work for everyone. This was taken with my first Sputnik, and before any real adjustments were ever made on it. Shot on Fuji Provia 100F film.
Sigiriya meaning ‘Lion Rock’ is a giant rock structure that is surrounded by jungle in the middle of Sri Lanka. It’s like nowhere else that I’ve been and something out of an Indiana Jones movie. We stayed in a tiny hostel which was so close to Sigiriya that you could see it from our hostel room and within walking distance to the entrance. Luckily we were told that the place opened at 8am by our hostel hosts, which was not what our guidebook had said. The book said that it opened at 9am, and the place was FULL by 10am with busloads of tourists. We were literally the first people to walk in and what an amazing experience it was! There are two Sigiriyas, people called them Little Sigiriya and Big Sigiriya. The big one is what you see in the distance (standing at over 600 feet high) while we were standing on top of little Sigiriya. What was great about little Sigiriya was the fact that it was a jungle hike to get there and much cheaper to visit. If you ever go there, I highly recommend visiting both since they both offer different and amazing experiences in their own right. The structures located on top of big Sigiriya are the foundations of former fortresses and the home of the king of the region, named King Kashyapa who reined in the mid 5th Century. After his death it became a Buddhist monastery until the 14th Century. It’s now a UNESCO World Heritage site and hopefully well protected for many more years to come. These Rhesus monkeys you see here were a little out of focus, I must have been too close to them, or didn’t stop down my aperture enough to get them all sharp. Either way, I still like the shot and hope you do as well. Shot on my Sputnik on Fuji Provia 100F film.