Image taken with the TL 120 in a local cemetery. The Glenwood Cemetery is located at 2525 Washington Avenue in Houston, Texas. It was the first cemetery in Houston to be professionally designed and opened in 1871. The cemetery is situated between Washington Avenue on the North side and Memorial Drive on the South side, the latter overlooking Buffalo Bayou. Designed in the tradition of other romantic rural cemetery parks of the 19th century, Glenwood’s beautiful landscape and towering trees provide the visitor a place of quiet respite just one mile west of downtown Houston.
Bethel Baptist Church
The new Bethel Baptist Church Park was developed while memorializing the history and significance of this land to the Fourth Ward. Fourth Ward was the site of the original Freedmen’s Town neighborhood established by freed slaves after the Civil War. Bethel Missionary Baptist, founded in the late 1800’s by the Rev. Jack Yates, has had three sanctuaries on the same site, the earliest built in the 1890’s. The most recent church building, built in 1923, was gutted by fire in 2005, but the walls are still standing. The city bought the property in 2009 to preserve the church facade and to provide park space. The Bethel Park Project restored three walls and converted the rest of the property into a park. It is a really cool place to sit and meditate.
Hluboka Fairytale Palace
This Czech palace looks like a wedding cake, both from far away and close up. What’s great is that it has been in constant use as the setting for Czech children’s movies and TV shows about historic times (Princes and Princesses and such).
Tabor Square
This is a TL120 image taken on Provia 100f film. I believe it was shot at f16 and 125th. I just had to get a shot of this fabulous statue on the top of the fountain in the square of Tabor, Czech Republic. We stopped in this historic town for some lunch, and as usual, I was delayed in ordering.
Charles Bridge, Prague
If you go to Prague, you will inevitably find the fine stone bridge built by King Charles I. It is one of the oldest stone bridges in Europe and is a very popular attraction in the heart of the medieval town. This image was shot with my TL120 camera on Provia 100f film. Maybe on the next round I will have a similar, only hyper shot from my Lubitel hyper rig. I still have to take the film in for processing.
Avebury Hyper
This image is a medium format redo of one of my earliest stereo images, and one of my favourite places on Earth. I backpacked through England in my youth looking for stone circles to photograph. I borrowed my friend’s Revere and shot about 5 rolls of Kodachrome slides, my first experience with stereo (outside of Viewmaster). I still have my first ever hyper stereo (cha cha) slide, in Realist format (two actually). This was my proud return. I found the same spot and set up my twin Lubitel rig. Almost all shots on my Lubitels are 125th and f16. I set the shutters by recording the sound they make using Audacity, and I don’t dare try to change the speed settings. In the field, this rig is a bear to set up, so I also usually save time by leaving the apertures at f16 and wait for bright sunlight. This way I can leave the focus at the hyper focal, so I can concentrate on the composition. it’s a hyper rig, so most objects are near infinity anyhow. I trigger the rig with two cable releases. One in each hand.
The stone circle at Avebury was described by the archaeologist, Aubrey, as being like a great cathedral, compared with Stone Henge, which is more like a village church. This image shows only a small part of the circle. A large part of the town of Avebury is actually inside the circle. The stone my wife Kamila is posing in front of is called the “Barber stone” since one of the medieval residents who tried to destroy the “Pagan” circle was crushed by this stone when it was toppled, and he was found with a pair of scissors.
Looking Through the Ice
This is a different kind of ice shot. This is a glacier segment which has calved, floated out into the lake, and been trapped in the lake ice when winter arrived. We skated out to the trapped bergs, before shedding our skates to investigate. It was at least 15′ from the surface of the lake to the tunnel roof.
Based on the size of the tunnel, and the shape of the scallops on the walls, I suspect this began as a vertical shaft (moulin) draining water from the surface of the glacier to the interior. The wind and sun continue to work on the ice even in the winter.
Tripod mounted TL120-55
Two Modes of Travel
Juneau is a government and a tourist town. In the summer, it is all tourists. You arrive by boat, or by plane, and both are common day trips for tourists. The Otters in the background will be loaded with folks heading south of town to the Taku River. They are 50(ish) year old De Havilland aircraft which have been repowered with turbo-props. The steamboat is a fiberglass hulled vessel built in the style of a 1900-vintage launch, but is powered by a 2000-vintage boiler and engine. They run hour-long harbor tours most days of the week.
Tripod-mounted TL120-1, taken on one of my noon-time walks.
Overflow!
A trip to a Cape Cod beach and my son decided to challenge the surf. He was doing well, but kept pushing his walls closer to the waves. He was inevitably inundated and was forced to retreated.
Getting shots in the wind, sand, and surf isn’t easy, but it sure is safer than crawling under glaciers 🙂
Windows on the World
Several years ago (2006), a disgruntled man set fire to a homeowner’s boat (on a trailer behind their house). The fire spread to their house and the adjacent church and burned both to the ground. If the winds had been different, a large section of Juneau could easily have disappeared that night. Three years, and many contributions later, enough of the church had been rebuilt to begin services again.
This was shot from the sidewalk during reconstruction, probably hand-held, during a noon-time walk.
Organ player inside Saint James Cathedral
Organ player inside Saint James Cathedral at 65 Church street Toronto, Ontario.
http://www.stjamescathedral.on.ca/
Saint James Cathedral exterior rear side
Saint James Cathedral exterior rear side.
Toronto necropolis chapel interior
You can see where the coffin sits and where they bring the coffins inside from the exterior.
Their web site with more images.
“Praise him and magnify him …”
Organ pipes and stained glass windows inside Saint James Cathedral at 65 Church street Toronto, Ontario.
http://www.stjamescathedral.on.ca/
Yosemite Fall
Yosemite Fall is one of the most popular and well-recognized sights in Yosemite Valley. The image was made from near the Sentinel Bridge. The cameras were 2 Bronica SQAs with 80 mm lenses (normal focal length). I had them on tripods about 15 yards apart. The shutters were synchronized by my tossing a rock in the air and when it hit the ground I and a friend at the other camera released the shutters at the same instant.