This is just a small part of an amazing sculptural group in the National Memorial Park, a cemetery near my home in Falls Church, Virginia. It was made by the Swedish sculptor Carl Milles in the early 1950’s. Unfortunately the water works were out of commission when I took this picture.
I shot it in 1999 with two Mamiya C-330’s on a tripod. That was a massive rig! I can’t remember what lenses I used, but I think they were short telephotos, maybe 135’s. After a couple of outings with that setup, I basically gave up on medium format stereo, until my interest was rekindled last year.
–Paul Gillis
In old Montreal, photographed using two Mamiya C-330 cameras with 65 mm. lenses on a Manfrotto tripod. I used a twin cable release to trip the shutters in near synch. Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours (“Our Lady of Good Help”) Chapel, a church in the district of Old Montreal. One of the oldest churches in Montreal, it was built in 1771 over the ruins of an earlier chapel. In 1849, Mgr. Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal, gave the chapel a statue of the Virgin as Star of the Sea, which was placed atop the church overlooking the harbor. In the 19th century, the chapel came to be a pilgrimage site for the sailors who arrived in the Old Port of Montreal; they would make offerings to the Virgin in gratitude for her “good help” for safe sea voyages.