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
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.
Red Window
Not being one for shopping I wandered off the main throughfare to see what might be more interesting. Luckily we had spectacular weather, which lead to some very nice color contrasts.
This was taken with a handheld (string monopod) Sputnik on Fujifilm Provia 100F.
Unlike most of my mounted slides, I accidently labeled this one on the front side as seen from a viewer.
Green Porch
Just past the Red Window was this porch. I’m not sure what the building was, but the texture and coloring attracted me to it.
This was taken with a handheld (string monopod) Sputnik on Fujifilm Provia 100F.
Columbus
Back behind the tourist shopping area is a collection of government buildings. This statue of Columbus is protected by a fence and cannon. I didn’t see any placard describing the building.
This was taken with a handheld (string monopod) Sputnik on Fujifilm Provia 100F.
This is a page to leave comments on Bert’s slides for loop D23.
Prayer Tower
Fishing Pier
Water Lilies
Cimetière du Père Lachaise
This is a page to leave comments on Joel’s slides for loop D23.
Rock Outcropping Hyper
Snow and Rocks Hyper 2
Canyon & River Hyper 3
Fence Hyper 4
I shot this in 2004 using a twin Yashica-Mat 124 rig. I would go on these business trips to Japan with just a few items of clothing and my suitcase filled with tripods, twin bars and other camera gear. I brought the actual cameras as carry-ons whenever possible. They’d keep me working all day so I ended up with lots of nighttime shots.
This was probably a two second exposure at f16, I manually fired a Vivitar 285H flash while the shutter was open.
From a 2018 New York Pinup Club shoot – TL120 with a Vivitar 285H flash. There was also some studio lighting, I used an incident meter and crossed fingers. I was using long exposures, 1/4 or 1/2 second and asking the models to hold still.
This was taken with twin Mamiya C220s using 135mm lenses. Provia 100F pushed one stop. I love the surreal effect of slightly hyper telephoto shots, San Francisco offers lots of nice elevated views where this works well.
This is from a New York Pinup Club shoot in Long Island June 2021. It was very hot and humid that day, many of the photographers went home early. This is a TL-120 without a flash, Provia 100F pushed one stop. I believe it was 1/125 at f22.
