Snowmen

I  took these slides on the first day of spring, March 21, 2018. For those of you from balmier climes, yes, there can be this much snow in Montreal on the first day of spring.  These snowmen had melted a little, and were starting to lose the form and details bestowed initially by their young creators. A couple of them have lost their eyes. Some of their features are starting to look a bit abstract. I initially saw them as somewhat nostalgic relics from the long winter we had been through, perhaps on a smaller time scale the way ruins remind us of a long-gone past, like the statues on Easter Island. My wife found them scary, as though they had escaped from a horror movie, and the more I examined them, the more I could see her point of view. Shot with a Heidoscop on a tripod with Fuji Provia 100F film. Exposures were as follows:

Snowman with a cap and scarf –  1/50th @ f25.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snowman with small head – 1/20th @ f25.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snowman with scarf and toque – 1/25th @ f25.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snowman whose grapefruit eyes fell off – 1/40th @ f25.

 

 

 

 

 

Don Lopp d20 submission

Note: Don Lopp passed away February 24, 2019. Bob Venezia has graciously continued to allow Don’s slides to circulate.

This is Don Lopp’s contribution for loop d20, grandfathered in from loop 20 of MF3D Folio II managed by Brian Reynolds.

Mt. Shuksan. 10-02. Velvia 50. Pol 22.0

Botanical Garden. Bellevue, WA. Velvia 50, f/22. Home-made camera – obviously inferior lenses from 1950s.

Bald Eagle. Provia f22.0 Heidoscope.

Pike Place Market – Tossing Salmon. 6/97. Heidoscope f16.0 Astia.

Ghost Bike for Justine Charland-St-Amour

A30 - Ghost Bike for Justine Charland-St-Amour

This Ghost Bike commemorates Justine Charland-St-Amour who was 24 when she was killed August 22nd, 2016 when hit by a truck at the intersection of d’Iberville Street and Rosemount Boulevard in Montreal. I was moved to create this series when she became the fourth cyclist struck the same week in Montreal. I included a Ghost Bike for each of 20013, 2014, 2015 and 2016  in the series, but 2017 continues to be a very deadly for cyclists in Montreal despite measures taken. Sorry about the dust mark in the right film chip.

Ghost Bike for Bernard Carignan

A30 - Ghost Bike for Bernard Carignan

This Ghost Bike commemorates Bernard Carignan who was killed on August 22nd, 2015  on St-Denis Street in Montreal when his bicycle struck the door of a parked car that had swung open in front of him. I included this series of Ghost Bikes as I bicycle to work and am cut off by a car on average once per day. Original slide taken with a tripod-mounted Heidoscop using Provia 100F exposed at 1/4 at F22.

Ghost Bike for Matilde Blais

A30 - Ghost Bike for Matilde Blais

This Ghost Bike commemorates Matilde Blais who was 33 when she was crushed by the rear wheels of a crane truck on April 28th, 2014 while riding a Bixi shared bike through the St-Denis Street underpass in Montreal. The coroner’s inquest found she was not at all at fault and that side guards on the truck may have saved her life. The inquest led to some improvements being made to try to improve the safety of cyclists at underpasses, but much remains to be done. Original slide taken with a tripod-mounted Heidoscop using Provia 100F exposed at 1 second at f25.

Ghost Bike for Suzanne Iswari

A30 - Ghost Bike for Suzanne Iswari

Suzanne Iswari was struck and killed by a bus on July 18th, 2013 while attempting to avoid a car door opened in front of her on Parc Avenue at St-Viateur Street in Montreal. Ghost Bikes are created to commemorate killed cyclists. Original slide taken with a trip-mounted Heidoscop using Provia 100F exposed at 1/30 at F22. Sorry for the blown highlights but the white bicycle in the sun against the black car in shadows is a greater dynamic range than the film can handle.

Red Rock Canyon – Waterton Lakes

A29 - Red Rock Canyon - Waterton LakesThe red rocks provide an unusual background to this otherwise typical scene of people relaxing while enjoying an idyllic scene. The alluvial rocks in the stream bed are not red like the canyon, and have been carried down to the canyon from up the mountain.  We fell in love with Waterton Lakes National Park in south-western Alberta during this our first visit. Original slide taken June 7, 2015 with a tripod-mounted Heidoscop using Provia 400X exposed at 1/160 at f16. This was my last roll of Provia 400X; it is sorely missed.

Ghost Trees, Upper Geyser Basin – Yellowstone

A29 - Ghost Trees, Upper Geyser Basin - YellowstoneThese white dead trees create an otherworldly scene around many of the geysers at Yellowstone. I am not sure why living trees are growing amongst them: are the dead trees silicified and preserved, to be joined by the living trees when they succumb to the harsh environment; or perhaps the conditions have changed allowing a new generation of trees to survive; or perhaps the dead trees were burned in one of the many forest fires that occurred at Yellowstone before being covered in the minerals expelled by the geysers. Original slide taken June 1, 2015 with a tripod-mounted Heidoscop using Provia 400X exposed at an estimated  1/250 at f25.

Belgian Pool – Yellowstone

A29 - Belgian Pool - YellowstoneThe Belgian Pool was named for a tourist from Belgium who was killed in 1929 after falling into the pool. Enthralled by an eruption of Grand Geyser, the unfortunate man apparently wasn’t watching where he was stepping. The range of colors is caused by the variation in the composition of the microbial mats caused by the change in temperature at different parts of the pool. (The colors would have been more intense with polarizing filters but I don’t have two polarizing filters. This more intimate scene is more effective with the regular lense separation of the Heidoscop than the shots I did of Old Faithful and other majestic scenes in Yellowstone and the Grant Tetons, most of which would have benefited from hyper stereo.) Original slide taken June 1, 2015 wit ha tripod-mounted Heidoscop using Provia 400X exposed at 1/200 at f22.

Three Lonely Crosses

A29 - God Bless AmeDo these three crosses stand in memory of three people that lost their lives at this lonely crossroads? If yes, what complex lives are reduced to these simple white crosses? What happened? This shot was taken at intersection of US 287 and MT 200, north of Wolf Creek, Montana. The crosses are not present in Google streetview from June 2009. Original slide shot June 6, 2015 with a tripod-mounted Heidoscop using Provia 400X exposed at 1/160 at f25. (I was going to call the image “God Bless Ame”, after the billboard, but changed my mind as I felt it was going to change my intent.)

Noodle Delirium

Noodle Delirium“Noodle Delirium” was an “ephermeral installation” that was created by the “Collectif ARG – Les Astronautes” and included in the “Unusual Passages” show in Quebec City the summer of 2014. It transformed a discreet anonymous passage into something special that people loved to walk through brushing against the noodles with their hands.

Original slide on Provia 400X taken with a tripod-mounted Heidoscop at 1/8 second at f25 on August 14, 2014.

Tourney Fountain, Quebec City

Tourney Fountain, Quebec CityTourney Foundation full viewI tried several classically centred shots of the fountain, as with the photo on the right, but I was not satisfied. I then decided to emphasize the overlapping jets of water coming from the frogs’ mouths, which I hoped might be more interesting in stereo than the fountain itself. I waited some time to view the scene with tourists in the background and without, and decided to take the shot with tourists to give more “as it is” context. The Tourney Fountain was a gift of the Simons Family to commemorate Quebec City’s 400th anniversary in 2008, and has become a popular landmark in front of the parliament. The fountain is the creation of French sculptor Mathurin Moreau and was  originally installed in Bordeaux, France in 1857.

Original slide on Provia 400X taken with tripod-mounted Heidoscop at 1/80 second at f25 on August 12, 2014.

 

Morning Dew

Morning DewI enjoy playing with back-lighting, which in this case lit up the drops of early morning dew on the grass. The uncoated lenses on the Heidoscop require careful shading to avoid flare in back-lit situations. I hope this image captures the calm I enjoy in the Parc du Bois-de-Coulonge in Quebec City.

Original slide on Provia 400X taken with a tripod-mounted Heidoscop at 1/15 sec. at F25 on August 9, 2014.

 

 

Moon Vine

Moon Vine The dew on these moon vines at sunrise seemed to give them a silvery sheen. These vines are located at one of my favorite parks in Quebec City, Parc du Bois-de-Coulonge, which housed of the residence of lieutenant-governors from 1870-1966.

Original slide on Provia 400X taken with a tripod-mounted Heidoscop at 1/6 Sec. at F25 on August 9, 2014.