End of the fireworks show where the pyrotechs pull out all the stops
Hosta leaf patterns in black and white
Close up shot of a honeybee on a dahlia
Keep it down up there, Willya?
One of the reasons I wanted, and built, this Macrobox was to capture shots of Tess in MF3D. I knew it wouldn’t be an easy pursuit because the moment I started doing something she would be all over it. “No, Tess, I want you *in front* of the camera. Not *on* the camera.” That sort of thing.
I was able to catch her in a quiet moment when the camera and strobes had been pre-set for her position. I like to think that in this shot she is hollering at some kids upstairs to be quiet. In fact I caught her in mid yawn.
Running out of daylight, but time for one more shot so I grabbed this sunset with the near silhouette of the log along the frozen shoreline of Big Bear Lake in February of 2022. You can see across the big part of the lake in this view and most of the lake is not frozen, just the end where we were. It was a satisfying journey to get out of the cabin and run along the nature trail and get back before the temperatures dropped to single digits. The next day would be great skiing.
The kids enjoyed a little climbing adventure on this log. Eventually we settled down into this arranged pose for the cha-cha shot on my Fuji GA645w. It was getting cold and the sun was going down fast. Glad to have this memory of my kids, who are 14,12,11,9 in this picture.
Lucky for me, I was able to encourage and coach my kids into being avid runners. We suited up and ran out to this frozen shoreline of Big Bear Lake before sunset and they were happy to take a break and pose for this cha-cha shot with my Fuji GA645w. I was fortunate the winds had died down and the lake water was still, allowing me to capture this moment from our 4 mile run.
For ‘Ski Week’ over President’s Day I took my family up to Big Bear Lake for some local skiing. We were lucky to catch a storm and some fresh snow. The weather was cold in the teens and this side of the lake froze over. I got in some running before sunset and took my Fuji GA645w with me. This cha-cha has some nice light and no water movement, so it worked out well. This was also my last roll of Fuji Provia 400x, a favorite film stock of mine. When I got home I looked on eBay and was shocked to see the sky high prices. Those 2D shooters don’t deserve this film; it should be reserved for us 3D people. My 2 cents.
Counterclockwise, from upper left:
“For Fear Of Branching Out on Arbor Day” – expired Provia 100F.
“Goin’ Pseudo” – expired Provia 100F.
“Behold! The Omnipotent, Ever-Knowing VooDoo Orb Sac!” – expired Astia 100F.
“Weather Most Fowl” – egg-spired Astia 100F, using the Sunflower 16 rule.
All images captured with a TL120-55, and home-processed using a JOBO CPP2 unit, with Unicolor or Arista E6 chemistry.
Kat MF-B206.
Kat MF-B119.
In 2018 we traveled to visit the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. Descriptions below in part taken from online sources:
No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man brought the large-scale, participatory work from this desert gathering to the nation’s capital for the first time. The exhibition took over the entire Renwick Gallery building and surrounding Golden Triangle neighborhood, bringing alive the maker culture and creative spirit of this cultural movement.
FoldHaus Art Collective’s Shrumen Lumen: The elements of this sophisticated, interactive cluster of fungi each has its own particular character responding to human interaction. As participants step on the footpads located beneath each cap, the mushrooms gently grow and “breathe.zzzzz’ In daylight the grouping appears ethereal white, while at night, it magically transforms with embedded LEDs that glow through the translucent outer skin to bring the installation to life.
Truth is Beauty by Marco Cochrane. Cochrane first sculpts his pieces by hand before constructing them from steel triangles at grand proportions. Built using a mold of the original clay sculpture, the version of Truth Is Beauty in the gallery is one-third the size of the fifty-five-foot tall figure that appeared at Burning Man in 2013.
Both images acquired with my Sputnik, about 30s exposure f22 I guess, on 100ASA Fuji RDPIII film.
Note: I’ve had some issues getting Jim signed up on the site, so I’m posting this description he sent to me. -Ian Andvaag
Newly included slides are mostly taken with a Sputnik acquired from Paul Gillis, but badly metered on a dark snowy day. They are “Bit of Snow” taken at our first snowstorm, “Ultimate Rest”, taken at our nearest apartment trash fort and hydrant, “A Little Snow” on Woodrow Wilson Boulevard just outside our apartments, and “Netherlands Memorial Lions”, taken at Marine Memorial Park’s Netherlands Carillon (recently restored) with a hand held Rolleiflex in the 1990s. I wish I still had that camera, since I reduced my camera pile from 88 in 2004 to “only” 28 today. The only 120 film ones left are a 1960 vintage Sputnik, 1930 giveaway cardboard Kodak 50th Anniversary, and a 1926 Rolleidoscop which needs repair.
Jim Roy
Bit of Snow
Ultimate Rest
A Little Snow
Netherlands Memorial Lions
[This post was created by Ian Andvaag on August 2, 2023 to create a place for people to leave comments on Nik Sekhar’s slides. It has been dated to February 4, 2022 which is when Nik had the folio.]
[Flowers Close-Up]
[Front Yard]
[Nik’s Son Holding Cat]
[Star Wars Birthday Cake]
Well, it’s been about 9 months since I last had the dragon box in my grubby little hands. I wish I’d taken more MF3D images in that time, but I guess it’s good that I at least got a few. All four of these were taken with my TL-120 on Provia 100F, using a tripod.
Conundrum Between Trees
This is the same sculpture that I included in my previous entry (here). I took it on a later visit, and from much further back, so that it is framed by two sturdy trees. I think I like this shot better.
Here, Have Some Snips
This sculpture is just a stone’s throw from the one above; but in an artistic sense they could hardly be farther apart. I still don’t know the name of either work, nor of the sculptors. I shot this very late in the day. The low light level was no problem, shooting from a tripod (2 sec. at f/11, I think) but it did result in some lights in the background coming out distractingly bright.
Dark Star Park (Arlington, Virginia)
Finally, some sculpture that I know something about! This little park (larger than what I show here) is actually very close to the US Marine Corps War Memorial (the Iwo Jima sculpture). Another case of the abstract adjacent to the extremely realistic.
This park & all its sculptural elements were designed by Nancy Holt & built in 1984, commissioned by Arlington County. The Wikipedia article about her goes into some depth about it. I definitely want to go back & photograph the park from other angles. The biggest challenge I had was that from most viewpoints the background was in full sun, while the sculptures were in shade.
Broken Outflow Pipe
Maybe another inadvertent kind of sculpture? Obviously not a very colorful subject, but I was drawn to the 3-dimensional complexity. Another long exposure as the day was waning.
Colony Place
This is along the main tourist shopping street just outside the cruise ship center in Nassau, Bahamas.
This was taken with a handheld (string monopod) Sputnik on Fujifilm Provia 100F.
