Infinity Pool – Singapore

This is the famous Infinity Pool at the top of the Sands three-tower hotel in Singapore.   You’ll find a lot of images online of this pool that feature the illusion that the back edge of the water drops off to the Singapore skyline, you’d think swimmers were in danger of falling off.   This shot shows why they aren’t.

May 2018.  I used a TL-120 with Provia 100F pushed one stop.

Golden Gate Bridge

Photographed with twin Mamiya C220 cameras with 135mm lenses.   I used Provia 100F pushed one stop.  I’m fond of the surreal effect of slightly hyper images taken with zoom lenses.   If I take the time to calibrate the twin release cable the Mamiya shutters are easy to sync up.  You can see a bird flying in the distance in this shot with no rivalry.

Great Wall of China

This is the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall located 45 miles from Beijing.   It is one of the most thoroughly restored segments of the wall.

Photographed with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop.    No tripod, I get good results with this camera using a waist-level finder and letting it hang around my neck.

Bagan, Myanmar

Bagan is famous for its thousand year old Bhuddist temples.   Many of these belonged to wealthy families who built them next to their houses.   The houses were made of wood and are long gone, but the temples remain.

Photographed with twin Mamiya C-220s using 135mm lenses, December 2015.  Prove 100F pushed one stop.  I used a tripod.   It was challenging hauling this huge rig around Myanmar and my family got a bit impatient with me at times, but it was worth it to get shots like this one.

Abandoned House, Mussoorie India

Scan000110This was the view from the Plaza hotel in Mussoorie India.   It must have been a gorgeous residence at some point.  You can see that someone is living there, or at least hanging some laundry up to dry.   Mussoorie is in Northern India at the foothills of the Himilayas.

Photographed with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop.   I used a pod-support on a deck railing.   I think it was 1/125 @f16.

“Mermaid Parade – Twin Pillows”

Scan000111Photographed with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop with a Vivitar 285H with a diffusor for fill-flash.  I believe it was f16 @ 1/125.   The TL-120 seems to do fine with flash sync at 1/125 even though 3D World only claimed 1/30.

It was bright sunny day for the 2014 Mermaid Parade, fill-flash saved lots of my shots from excessive shadow detail.

For me fill-flash is like that commercial for hot-sauce:   “I put that $#*& on everything!”

Taj Mahal Close

Scan000109The Taj Mahal is often seen just in the classic full view, but there’s quite a lot to look at when you get closer in.   MF3D is really the only medium that can convey the richness of all the marble inlays and carving.

This was photographed with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop.  I believe it was 1/250 @f16.  No tripods are allowed at the Taj unless major fees are paid, so this was shot with the camera hanging around my neck using a Hasselblad waist level finder and a cable release.   October 2010.

The TL-120 attracted a lot of attention in India, at times I was mobbed with people wondering what it was.