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Tent Rocks near Los Alamos

by Geoffrey S. Waldo

Well, this one is a bit different. It’s a hyper of a formation about 1/8 mile away taken using the Sony SLT 55 with a 100 mm prime macro lens. The images were acquired as part of a rapid burst from a moving car (I’d had foot surgery and my wife was driving me about). The spacing of the shots is around 100 feet. The white formations are about 30′ tall. This is a little known site near Los Alamos.

This was transferred to TL 120 using a “4K” screen. See “Camel Rock North Face” for the details of that process.

There is a very famous grouping of tent rocks, larger and more numerous, south of Santa Fe, which some of you may know of. They occur only in a few places, including outside of Istanbul, Turkey.

I’ll be heading out to Tent Rocks proper in the summer once things have solidified.

Overlook Park White Rock, New Mexico

by Geoffrey S. Waldo

This image was taken using cha cha and a single Sony SLT 55 with 35 mm Sony prime F1.8 lens. The focus of the infinity point was a bit soft so I used a bLind deconvolution filter (Lucy Richardson) to refocus. Then the images were transferred to TL 120 by photographing a quad UHD screen with custom color table.

This is one of my favorite sites, with many opportunities for interesting views depending on the time of day. This wa 2pm to a bit hard lighting. The figured rock in foreground was interesting. I was pleased that the raw format and transfer process kept the detail and color of the highlight on the rock. In the left distance is Black Mesa. I lived near there for 5 years in a former candle factory where I had a lot of my woodworking equipment. I’ve since sold that equipment.

When I take this site again, I’ll be using the tl120 directly with its 85 mm lenses

Camel Rock West Face

by Geoffrey S. Waldo

Sony slt 55a 35 mm prime. Cha-cha. October 10, 2013 10:35 am.

Used to be you could climb up on this until about 1970. There were actually two formations, one about 100 yards south. Some kids attached a rope and pulled it down with a pickup. So they put a fence around it.

This was transferred to TL 120 using a “4K” screen. See “Camel Rock North Face” for the details of that process.

Camel Rock North Face

by Geoffrey S. Waldo

 

I only recently discovered the MF stereo world thanks to Nik! the first I’d seen was at the 2012 NSA. Immediately after that I’ve had 7 foot surgeries and unable to use my TL 120 the way it was intended.  Determined to participate though, and once things are healed I’ll be getting out and composing directly to film. I realize one goal of this folio is to preserve the art of direct analog film photography, so my new entries are a bit of sacrilege. Since I’m a scientist I like to experiment. I have a bunch of 35 mm stereo and digital stereo photos. One question I wanted to answer empirically was: what would it look like to transfer images from my archive to medium format. Continue reading →

US Botanical Garden, evening in the “Jungle”

by Boris Starosta

USBG-1302_MFT72_PV_I shot the USBG earlier this year during the day, and it is a smorgasbord of post-industrial steam-punk vs. wilderness 3d imagery.  I returned last month to try and capture the magical evening light, which makes the place look even more mysterious than it already is.  I was hampered by equipment problems (in part of my own making), and did not get very many shots.  This is one of the better ones, taken about 5 minutes after the “magic” lighting had ended.  (Equipment failure prevented pictures during the magic 15 minutes!).

Then, on the drive home (about two hours highway driving), my car broke down near Culpeper, about halfway home.  Michele and Jet had to come fetch me in the middle of the night.  The car was repaired in Culpeper over the course of three more weeks.  I only got it back just recently.  All in all, an ill-fated photo mission.

 

Sputnik, RSX 400 film, f16 probably, 30 seconds exposure.

 

 

UVA “Lawn” view towards South

by Boris Starosta

UVA-0618_MFT72_PV_Here we have the renowned UVA Lawn, centerpiece of the Academical Village designed by Thomas Jefferson for the first public University in the United States, which he founded.  The Rotunda is at one end (to the North) and this slide shows the view in the opposite direction, towards Cabell Hall.

Another pretty fall view?   You all know UVA has been in the news of late, so you also know that’s not all this view is about.

Baby Treed

by Boris Starosta

Just another dull foliage shot?

I’m including a wide angle from my twin Sigma rig, to give you a sense of scale…

What do you guys make of it?

KINGS OF FREEDOM by Kaun at UVa.

by Boris Starosta

Kings-0309_MFT72_PV_ In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, this year we have a supposedly historic piece of Berlin wall grafitti art on our campus, on loan from the Hefner Collection.  It is Dennis Kaun’s KINGS OF FREEDOM.  I’m still researching the provenance of this artwork, because I’m a little bit suspicious of it, as it is clearly signed “copyright” 1990. Continue reading →

Horseshoe Bend

by Bob Venezia

Horseshoe Bend

I cannot look at Horseshoe Bend without thinking about Popeye the Sailor

Horseshoe Bend is a popular spot for photographers in the Page, Arizona area. It’s less than a mile off the road and boasts a sweeping view of a turn in the Colorado River. The classic shot requires a wider angle lens than I currently own. There was a German photographer who had a wide enough lens but he also possessed a strong fear of heights. I volunteered to take his tripod to the edge and capture the shot, for which he was most grateful.