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Tent Rocks near Los Alamos

by Geoffrey S. Waldo

Well, this one is a bit different. It’s a hyper of a formation about 1/8 mile away taken using the Sony SLT 55 with a 100 mm prime macro lens. The images were acquired as part of a rapid burst from a moving car (I’d had foot surgery and my wife was driving me about). The spacing of the shots is around 100 feet. The white formations are about 30′ tall. This is a little known site near Los Alamos.

This was transferred to TL 120 using a “4K” screen. See “Camel Rock North Face” for the details of that process.

There is a very famous grouping of tent rocks, larger and more numerous, south of Santa Fe, which some of you may know of. They occur only in a few places, including outside of Istanbul, Turkey.

I’ll be heading out to Tent Rocks proper in the summer once things have solidified.

Overlook Park White Rock, New Mexico

by Geoffrey S. Waldo

This image was taken using cha cha and a single Sony SLT 55 with 35 mm Sony prime F1.8 lens. The focus of the infinity point was a bit soft so I used a bLind deconvolution filter (Lucy Richardson) to refocus. Then the images were transferred to TL 120 by photographing a quad UHD screen with custom color table.

This is one of my favorite sites, with many opportunities for interesting views depending on the time of day. This wa 2pm to a bit hard lighting. The figured rock in foreground was interesting. I was pleased that the raw format and transfer process kept the detail and color of the highlight on the rock. In the left distance is Black Mesa. I lived near there for 5 years in a former candle factory where I had a lot of my woodworking equipment. I’ve since sold that equipment.

When I take this site again, I’ll be using the tl120 directly with its 85 mm lenses

Camel Rock West Face

by Geoffrey S. Waldo

Sony slt 55a 35 mm prime. Cha-cha. October 10, 2013 10:35 am.

Used to be you could climb up on this until about 1970. There were actually two formations, one about 100 yards south. Some kids attached a rope and pulled it down with a pickup. So they put a fence around it.

This was transferred to TL 120 using a “4K” screen. See “Camel Rock North Face” for the details of that process.