Shot with my home-made stereo camera. Probably f22.
Category Archives: a23
Texas Wildflowers April 2010
Description Taken with the TL-120 handheld
About the Image This year Texas had the best display of wildflowers I have ever seen. This image was taken near Poteet which is south of San Antonio on some little country road. The tall flowers are prickly poppy with many other varieties.
Terlingua, Texas ghost town
Description Taken with the TL-120 on a tripod.
About the Image This image was taken through the window of the old school. In the distance is the Catholic Church that still has services once a month. It is called a ghost town but there are people living there and every year they host a famous chili cookoff. Historic Terlingua, in Texas’ Big Bend region is located between Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park. Once an abandoned mining village, the ghost town is now the center of a charming desert community. The discovery of cinnabar, from which the metal mercury is extracted, in the mid-1880s brought miners to the area, creating a city of 2,000 people. The only remnants of the mining days are a ghost town of the Howard Perry-owned Chisos Mining Company and several nearby capped and abandoned mines, most notably the California Hill, the Rainbow, the 248 and the Study Butte mines. The mineral terlinguaite was first found in the vicinity of California Hill. Hence the name of the city.
Purple Prickly Pear Cactus
Description Taken on a tripod with the TL 120.
About the Image This image was taken in Big Bend National Park in Texas close to the Mexico border. It was the first time I had ever seen purple cactus! The Purple Prickly Pear Cactus is a member of the Opuntia genus. It can grow to 5 feet in height and has round to oblong purple tinged pads which give the cactus its name. Unlike many other types of prickly pear, the purple variety has few if any spines. The cactus grows in sandy or gravelly soil at elevations below 4000 feet.
Saints Cyril and Methodius Church
Description Taken on a tripod with the TL 120. These painted churches are in small towns about 1-1 1/2 hour drive from my house. They are quaint and pretty. For this image I had to stick my tripod through a gated partition as you are not allowed inside this particular church. My TL 120 just barely fit through the gate and composing was not easy as I could not see through the viewfinder. The churches still hold services weekly.
About the Image Inside, each is decorated in a profusion of color, with nearly every surface covered in bright paint. German and Czechs immigrants fleeing the Austrian Empire celebrated religious freedom found here in Texas by decorating humble Texas churches with gaudy and glorious interiors. Most of today’s remaining painted churches are second or third church buildings, some destroyed by fire, others, by hurricanes. Of the some 20 painted churches in Texas, 15 are listed on the National Register of historic sites. Saints Cyril and Methodius Church in Dubina, Texas: This sweet little painted church is pretty in pink, with delicate stencils throughout. The banister and newel details are painted faux-finished marble.
Tar Vat Trail Killarney Ontario
TL120
This was photographed by James Mutch Oct 2009.
Sparkler
TL120 f8 B
This photo was taken by James Mutch, I think summer of 2009, at Emma Lake in Saskatchewan.
Kinzua Bridge
TL120
This was taken by James Mutch in Pennsylvania, October 2008. This bridge was victim to a tornado in 2003.
Harris Hawk, Hawkfest
TL120 with flash
Every year I go to Holiday Beach in the fall, this is near Point Pelee Ontario, the southernmost point in Canada. This is where Lake Huron is the most narrow, so lots of birds and monarchs pass by on their migrations.
This was my first attempt using flash with the TL120. This falconer is standing under a tree, in deep shade, with a beautiful Harris Hawk. These birds are from Central and South America, this is not one of the many raptors that we see migrating here. This picture is from about 2 years ago.
Lake Huron in February
Sputnik F22
This was taken with a sputnik in February, quite a few years ago, at one of the great lakes. It should have been very windy and unbearably cold. I was hoping to take some winter pictures. But it was warm and calm in spite of my having a stereo camera with me.
George’s Inlet
TL120
Last shot of the day, the Georgian Bay will soon be behind me, a trek over some rough territory still ahead. This is from Killarney Park in Ontario, it’s my favourite place to camp and take pictures.
Toronto at Night (Dark version)
Two Mamiya C330s with 180 mm lenses 2001
Shot from the roof of my brother’s downtown apartment we can see the flattening effect of the telephoto lenses here, I guess I should have used a wider base to add more depth according to the Pee Pax principle.
Saratoga Springs
Two Mamiya C330s with 65 mm lenses
The house belongs to a friend of mine’s cousin who rents it out for a tidy sum during the horse racing season there.
Montreal Harbour
Two Mamiya C330s with 65 mm lenses 1999
Too much water in front for my liking but we can see the Rubber Company of Canada, Molson’s Brewery and the pizza is the French and English Canadian radio broadcasting company CBC, and the effects of atmospheric perspective in the blue haze covering the downtown area.
Virgin Mary Protecting the Saguenay River, Quebec
Two Mamiya C330s with 65 mm lenses 1998
Climbing up the steep hills of Quebec’s only fiord, just after a flash thunderstorm.