Category Archives: FolioA

Prince Edward Island shoreline

by dorothy mladenka

Shot hand held with the sputnik using available light. Seems they have the same kind of sky conditions that we have in Texas 🙂

I wanted a different kind of mount so I got out my scrapbooking/card making stuff and cut the mount. I would like to know what you think of it.  To mount I simply put the mask on the spicer jig I use and taped the chips to the black mask. Then inserted the mask into the frame.

Texas wildflowers 2010 part deux

by dorothy mladenka

The year 2010 in  Texas had the best display of wildflowers I have ever seen. Unlike this year (2011) which produced virtually no wildflowers due to the severe drought which we are still experiencing along with triple digit daily temps.

This image was taken near Poteet which is south of San Antonio on some little country road. I realize the sky detracts from the image but there isn’t much I can do about that except to crop it out but I wanted the old rusty chair and the house to be included. This was shot with the TL 120, hand held.

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

by dorothy mladenka


Some people say the interior of the Ammansville painted church is the color of cotton candy. Others say it is the color of Pepto-Bismol. Any way you look at it, the church is a pale, rosy pink. Legend has it that an unknown itinerant artist painted the walls of Saint John. Upon completion of the work, he vanished, never to be seen again.

The present Saint John’s is the third church to be built on the property. The first church was destroyed by a hurricane in 1909. The second church burned to the ground eight years after the first one was destroyed by a hurricane. A person recalled in a phone interview working in the fields and seeing the black smoke come up from the direction of the church. Everyone dropped their farm equipment and raced to the church. Folks were able to save some of the statues, but the rest of the building was lost to the fire, which was so hot even the church bells melted. With two churches destroyed in such a short time, one would think the community of Ammansville would have given up. Yet, they began the process of planning and rebuilding almost immediately after the fire. The third church was completed in 1919.

Bowlus Joshua Park

by John Long

Another show with my 1935 Bowlus Road Chief on our recent trip from Toronto to California and back.  Loved this area of Joshua Tree National Park near Palm Springs.  I did alot of climbing over the rock for different angles.  Sorry the rock is slightly out of focus.  I shot f22 but I guess not enough DOF.  I was shoting most mono (sorry).  For those that are intrigued by my trailer fascination check my Bowlus pages for some other mono (sorry) pics of the trip.

3D World f22 at 1/60 Tripod Provia F

New York Parade

by John Long

I was hanging out the window of my hotel for this shot.  It was a St. Patrick day parade staging grounds.  Lot of action, a complex image that I feel is stereo photograpy’s strength.  Somehow this image reminds me of Paul Shay’s photographs, on one hand it is clearly street photography but the subject somehow seemed staged, sort of like Jeff Wall’s photography.

3D World Provia handheld (which is rare for me)… I was worried I was going to drop the camera on someone.

Ships of the Desert

by John Long

My travel trailer called a Bowlus Road Chief was built in 1935 and the house called “Ship
of the Desert” was built in 1936, both of the Streamline Moderne movement.  I set up this shoot early in the morning but didn’t get out the 3D camera until the sun came up.  For those interested in the weird trailer you can find information at my site www.openthinkinc.com/bowlus

Using my 3DWorld probably f16 at 1/125 Provia F