Sixth floor museum Dealy Plaza Dallas

by dorothy mladenka

dallas

This was taken with the Don Lopp tuned up sputnik. Shot on 1-3-09. The colors look off to me, too much magenta. The depository is  the left hand building. The 6th floor window is one floor below the top of the structure. The window that Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot from is the square shape window to the right of the row of arched windows.

http://www.jfk.org/

Constructed in 1901, the red brick building on the corner of Houston and Elm streets was known as the Texas School Book Depository at the time of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The private firm stocked and distributed textbooks for public schools in north Texas and parts of Oklahoma.

Following the Kennedy assassination, the building became the focus of shock, grief and outrage. Evidence was found showing that shots were fired from the sixth floor, and Depository employee Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the president’s murder.

aftermath

by dorothy mladenka

aftermathHurricane Ike was the third most destructive hurricane to ever make landfall in the United States. This photo was taken on Bolivar Peninsula in December 2008. It is actually one of the few structures that wasn’t totally washed away. The camera used was the TL120.

Here is a link with more photos in 2d: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_life_of.html

Remains of Balinese Ballroom Galveston

by dorothy mladenka

balinese

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.

Notre Dame de Bonsecours

by Dale Walsh

notre-dame-de-bonsecour

dsc_1852smallIn old Montreal, photographed using two Mamiya C-330 cameras with 65 mm. lenses on a Manfrotto tripod. I used a twin cable release to trip the shutters in near synch. Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours (“Our Lady of Good Help”) Chapel, a church in the district of Old Montreal. One of the oldest churches in Montreal, it was built in 1771 over the ruins of an earlier chapel. In 1849, Mgr. Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal, gave the chapel a statue of the Virgin as Star of the Sea, which was placed atop the church overlooking the harbor. In the 19th century, the chapel came to be a pilgrimage site for the sailors who arrived in the Old Port of Montreal; they would make offerings to the Virgin in gratitude for her “good help” for safe sea voyages.

The close-up on this page was taken with a NikonD300 with a 55-200 mm VR lens. f-8 200 mm 1/250 sec.

Mount Royal Cemetery with back-lit ice-covered tree

by Paul Shay

mount-royal-cemetery-backlit-ice-covered-treeI noticed Dale Walsh also likes photographing in Mount Royal Cemetery, an oasis of calm in the middle of Montreal. Freezing rain covered the trees with ice and then a snow storm blanketed the tombstones. I like the way the trunk hides the sun in the left image, but it peeks out in the right image. 

Original slide shot December 14, 2008 with a tripod-mounted Heidoscop with Provia 100P at 1/50th at f22.

Xmas decor in Verdun #|

by Paul Shay

xmas-decor-verdun-13Most of the homes in Verdun are simple brick rowhouses that all look much the same. With limited opportunity for originality in the architecture of the home, the people of Verdun go wild decorating their homes at Xmas and Halloween.

Original image shot December 13, 2008 with a tripod-mounted Heidoscop on Provia 400X exposed for 2.5 seconds at f22 with some fill flash. (There is no flash sync on the Heidoscop so I just set off the flash during the long exposure.)

Chilies and flowers in Jean Talon Market

by Paul Shay
Chilies & flowers in Jean Talon Market
Jean Talon Market is an important institution in Montreal, full of vendors of all kinds of fine foods that vary with the season. I asked the vendor in the middle of this scene if I could photograph his stand, which he agreed to while continuing to work threading garlands of chilies.

Original slide, taken August 31, 2008 with tripod mounted Heidoscop on Provia 100F at 1/20 at f25.

Disappearance of a cavern

by John Thurston
Tl120 on a tripod

Note the rock with white-quartz knob

TL120-55 on a tripod

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.