A large statue of Samuel de Champlain stands beside the Chateau Frontenac, in honour of his founding of Quebec City over 400 years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain
In this early morning light I am playing with a mirror creating a picture within a picture, juxtaposing adjacent objects in new ways.
Original slide shot October 10th, 2011 with a tripod-mounted Sputnik using Provia 100P exposed at 1/25th at f22.
A historic building of old Quebec City is juxtaposed in the mirror onto the green fields surrounding the Citadelle, the city’s fortifications:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadelle_of_Quebec
In this series I have played with a mirror to juxtapose adjacent objects in new ways.
Original slide shot October 9th, 2011 with a tripod-mounted Sputnik using Provia 100P exposed at 1/25th at f20.
The green leaves in the oval mirror are in striking contrast to the red of the Burning Bush. It is ironic that the shrub is called a Burning Bush as it sits in front of Quebec City’s Armoury that burned in July 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_Armoury
In this series I have played with a mirror to juxtapose adjacent objects in new ways. I am bothered by the softness of the image in the mirror, probably caused by the wind moving the mirror, but my wife likes it the most of the four and asked me to include it anyway.
Original slide shot October 9th, 2011 with a tripod-mounted Sputnik using Provia 100P exposed at 1/25th at f20.
I discovered this lovely view nearby our house while “geocaching” some time back. Yes, I know my tastes are strange.
Late afternoon, available light exposure of 1 second on an older roll of original FUJI Astia film (maybe, I believe, marked on slide mount. Not Astia100F.), at f32, with a Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner. This is the original slide, and I really like the color response of this film better than the newer Astias.
Ektachrome 200 (I think, check slide mount notation). A little over exposed, handheld with a Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner.
Old Rag Mountain is about a five hour hike in the foothills of the Shenandoah (8.5 miles), north of Charlottesville. Here’s a picture of my betrothed Michele as we near the summit, with the ridge along which we climbed in the background. In some places, the trail involves some surprisingly challenging rock-scrambling (I would jest, “we forgot our ropes!”).
Ektachrome 200 (I think, check slide mount notation). A little under exposed, handheld with a Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner.
This is the view from the summit at Old Rag Mt., again looking back from the way we came. Off in the distance, you can see the rocks upon which the earlier image was made – notice the other hikers there? Getting from there to the summit took about a half hour. It was crowded and hot when we did this hike in the summer of 2010. I rather like the under-exposure in this view, as it gives detail to the sky.
All my images this round were taken with my trusty Don Loppified sputnik. I used Kodak film, normally it was the 100vs or 100gx. I hand held the camera and shot f/22 at 50 shutter speed. Light is natural.
This was shot at Little Wild Horse Canyon, Utah. There are some neat slot canyons here as well.
All my images this round were taken with my trusty Don Loppified sputnik. We traveled to Utah & Colorado in September 2011. I used Kodak film, normally it was the 100vs or 100gx. I hand held the camera and shot f/22 at 50 shutter speed. Light is natural.
This was shot at Ohio Pass, Colorado. It was such a treat for us to see the changing colors in the trees as we only have 2 seasons in Texas: hot and hotter than hell-o 🙂
All my images this round were taken with my trusty Don Loppified sputnik. We traveled to Utah & Colorado in September 2011. I used Kodak film, normally it was the 100vs or 100gx. I hand held the camera (tripod didn’t make it in either) and shot f/22 at 50 shutter speed. Light is natural.
This was shot at Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, Colorado.
This was shot at Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, Colorado.
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.
This is a lava cave in Eastern Oregon. It forms a natural terrarium that allows these ferns to grow year round. Taken with a Sputnik on Fuji Velvia 50. It was a long exposure and suffers from some light flair at the bottom.
Shot with a Sputnik Ilford Pan-F processed by DR-5 Dublin 2006
This was a three to four minute exposure. You have to look for my face in here, it’s floating in space just to the left of the base of the statue. I opened the shutter with a locking cable release, walked up to the statue and held a Vivitar 285H pointed at my face at arm’s length and fired it.
Everyone except the boy seems quite serious about their trek across the wide expanse of sand to or from the seashore, oblivious of the guy with the funny camera.
Original slide shot during the summer of 2002 with a tripod-mounted Sputnik with Provia 100P, exposure unrecorded.
There is something contradictory about lifeguards. They represent authority and serious responsibility but also good times, youth and summer. There are long periods of idleness interspersed with action and occasionally crisis. The serious gaze of the lifeguard in the foreground is echoed by the people behind him, while the lifeguard on the chair faces the other way as she blows a warning on her fluorescent orange whistle.
Original slide shot during the summer of 2002 with a tripod-mounted Sputnik with Provia 100P, exposure unrecorded.
Fuji RAP, f11 (?), 1 sec. exposure in available light, using Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner. Camera stabilized on walkway/surface of bridge. Slide in folio is original film.
Cycling over the Williamsburg bridge to visit someplace in Brooklyn, I took interest in the elaborate riveted steel trusswork along the way. It was very cold, and I had no tripod. I placed the camera on ground and tried to stabilize it with a pocket knife acting as a shim to get the angle. Aim and thus composition was guesswork. I would have wanted a longer exposure/smaller aperture, but the rig was shaky, so I dared not. Luckily, it was wintertime, so the traffic was light, and I was not reported to the TSA or other anti-terrorist authorities as a person of suspicion – it’s sad what one has to be afraid of these days.