With Bougainvillea and Orange Cape Honeysuckle in the foreground. F9.5 1/45s
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Kurt at the Merced River
With Bridalveil Fall in the background. F6.7 1/90s
Merced River with Bridalveil Fall in the background
The calm morning river was still enough for me to grab this cha-cha shot framed with the tree leaves.
Yosemite Valley 2025-07-02
Newport Backbay Low Tide Mud
F4 at 1-45 handheld cha-cha. I took the Fuji GA645w along my run and grabbed a few shots of the Newport Backbay near where I live. The tide swings can be dramatic near full moon. This one exposed lots of mud which was fun to look at. 
Backbay at Sunset
F4 at 1-45 handheld cha-cha. Would’ve liked more dof. I took the Fuji GA645w along my run and grabbed a few shots of the Newport Backbay near where I live.
Sunset Log, Big Bear Lake, CA
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.
Kids on the Log, Big Bear Lake, CA
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.
Kids at Frozen Shore, Big Bear Lake, CA
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.
Frozen Log, Big Bear Lake, CA
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.
Mammoth Creek, CA
Stepping into the snowed over creek is a bit of a challenge when doing cha-cha hand held stereo as my footing was wobbly and I was unsure if I was keeping alignment between the first frame exposed and the second. Alas, I liked this image enough to include it in this round.
If you’re in Mammoth, have a fun adventure on the loop
https://www.mammothtrails.org/trail/30/town-loop/
Mammoth Creek Roadside, CA
The Town Loop is 7.8 mi and a great run/hike. On the nature part of the loop is the Mammoth Creek and it is beautiful when snowed over, as seen from this roadside view which parallels the trail. Most people just ski during the winter, but hiking and running are fun too. The loop provides a family-friendly tour of town with access to a variety of outbound trails and staging areas. Mammoth Creek Park is a popular start point from which you can tour the eastern half of Mammoth–offering sweeping views of the Sherwins and connections to local schools, the library and dining/shopping–or the western portion, which cruises sleepily through Old Mammoth and past the Valentine Reserve to Eagle Lodge before turning into a quiet neighborhood on its way back out to the Main Street frontage road.
Mammoth Historic Knight Wheel
My kids loved climbing up on this.
Gold was discovered in the vicinity of Old Mammoth in 1877 and thousands of men rapidly flocked to the region in the hopes of striking it rich. Today, evidence of these industrious pioneers remains throughout Old Mammoth and no object is able to tell the story of Mammoth’s early history better than the historic Knight water wheel.
The photogenic Knight water wheel, located along Old Mammoth Road, is a preserved remnant of Mammoth Lakes’ industrial beginnings. Now positioned in the quaking aspen adjacent to the paved bike path, this cast iron water wheel has a row of spoon-shaped buckets (Pelton-style) and was a technological marvel in its time. This innovative turbine design allowed late 19th-century industry to generate more power with less water. Previous water wheel designs were inefficient, cumbersome, and required sources providing high volumes of water.
Due to the design’s practicality, Mammoth’s Knight water wheel has a very unique history. The wheel was originally manufactured by the Knight Foundry, located in Sutter Creek, California, in the mid-1870’s and was hauled from the Mojave area to the Mammoth Lakes Basin by mule and oxen team.
Mammoth Mtn Bike Path Bridge
Did some skiing this winter up at Mammoth Mountain with the family and got them to do a morning run with me. Along the adventure we crossed this bridge located just to the North of Old Mammoth Road up and to the end of Waterford Ave. Sometimes the kids would stay still enough to get a cha-cha. My trusty Fuji GA645w is the only light enough MF camera I can take on an adventure hike/run, but you have to do cha-chas, hoping the left and right images are still enough to give the stereo illusion without retinal rivalry.
Cha Cha Cha!
I was going to call this set “Dancing in 645 Time”, but I thought that sounded really pretentious, so, I went with something equally as creative; “2018 Submissions”. I was going to use the word “Dancing” because these four images are all cha-chas. I am a musician, and I know there’s no such time signature as 645, but I was going to use it as part of the title as all these images were shot in 645 format.
“My Thriving Ceramic Hobby” – I used to enjoy creating ceramic sculpture, and when we moved into this house (years ago) I set up a pottery shed in the backyard. Unfortunately, the equipment has lain dormant for a while now. I am hoping to eventually resume my ceramic hobby and build some ceramic stereo pinhole cameras. You’re looking at two Skutt kilns under plastic behind the pottery shed. This is a cha-cha captured with a noisy Fujifilm GA645W.
“Horned Sentinels On A Hot Tin Roof” – this is self-explanatory and should be a familiar scene for almost all film shooters. This is a cha-cha shot with a Fujica GS645W, on Kodak Aerochrome film, using a Y1 Yellow filter. A GA645W couldn’t be used to shoot infrared film as it has film sensors that would likely fog this sensitive film. This was captured in St. Lucia, during the December holiday season. See all the snow? No, I didn’t think so.
“What Stays In Vegas Decays In Vegas” – in February my wife and I drove from Las Vegas, Nevada to Los Angeles, California to visit family. While in Vegas we visited the Neon Boneyard Museum. My wife and I booked a guided tour of the Museum, and I booked myself a “Photo Walk” for the following afternoon. During the guided tours you have to keep up with the tour group, you can’t lag behind taking photos, and you can only bring one camera. No tripods, no extra lenses, and no selfie sticks. On the Photo Walks, you are allowed to bring all of your gear, and you get to roam around at your leisure for about an hour and a half. The Photo Walks happen twice a month and are usually limited to about six photographers. If you ever book a guided tour, make sure to request Russ as your guide. He’s been a Vegas resident since 1962, and he’s frequented most of the establishments that once displayed the signs that now reside in the Boneyard. He knows the history of Vegas, and the backstory for all of the signs in the Museum! This cha-cha was shot with a GS645W. I tried to meter for balance between the highlights and shadows, but I still wound up with some blown-out highlights. No matter, you can see what the blown-out signs on the right look like in the final slide of this set.
“Vacancy Row” – I was going to call this image “Cinnamon” as that’s what I think of everytime that I read the motel name on the most upright of the two motel signs pictured, but you all woulda thunk I wuz illiterate. Shot with the same equipment on the same afternoon as “What Stays…”, I also had a 1930 Rolleidoscop, a CLAed 2.8 Stereo Realist, and a Panasonic 3D-1 in my camera bag.