In Tight Lines I referenced one of the changes I’ve seen in in the last ten years, namely the prohibition on getting too close to the ships tied to our public docks. While there is now a plastic fence bolted down the middle of the dock and signs assuring us that maritime safety depends on keeping everyone on the correct side of the fence, there is a remaining bit of sanity. Twenty feet from the fence (and where I stood to create Tight Lines), there is a ramp to the tender-float. When there are too many ships in the harbor to dock them all, they anchor out and bring their passengers in by small boat. The float to which they tie is directly under the bow of first ship moored at the dock. From there, I attempted to capture the immensity of the ships which visit us.
The ship pictured here is the Ryndam. At 101 feet wide, it is almost Panamax-width and could well be the same ship pictured in Tight Lines. Some of the ships which frequent Juneau are a bit wider and taller than Ryndam, but few of them moor at this dock. A skiff with two men in it is provided for scale. The building the background is four stories tall.
Tripod mounted TL120
Maia is a bit soft because she’s just trying to sit still for 30 seconds, while I pull the pile of lights out of her lap.
European countries, Spain, Mexico, or other countries in South America. Sometimes the guests are so interesting, you hardly need to see the rest of the city. I stay there once or twice a month, because I have a part-time job driving a coach bus to and from NYC from Charlottesville. I always bring my bicycle.
To obtain this exposure, I held the camera upside down against the door frame above my head, shimmed a bit with a bicycle cog under the front edge of the camera (I couldn’t bring a tripod on my bike). I took numerous pictures this way, bracketting my exposures.
#36 – Sputnik – don’t remember the film or settings
#35 – Sputnik – f/4.5 Provia 400F
#34 – Stereflektoskop – Kodak Tech Pan
#33 Stereflektoskop – Velvia 50
This was taken a few minutes later. (See notes from previous image) By this time, the shadows have eaten up a lot of the closer depth cues, (and apparently my ability to see the bubble level in the viewfinder) but there is still some sense of being there. It will be interesting to see how the digital slides compare noise-wise to this one.
I was juggling the Heidoscop, and a couple of digital rigs hoping to get a set of digital->film comparison slides printed up for this loop. Hopefully the digital slides will catch up with the folio before the next stop is over.
It was an unusually misty morning, and I wanted to experiment with the back-lit dew, but I didn’t want to seem like I was being too nosy about “The drug dealer shack” on the other side of the field, so I had to settle for semi-backlit. A few years ago, this was an orange grove like you see in the next slide.
