Covid Road Trip #1 was submitted to the most recent round of the Dragon Folio.
As soon as the borders to the US opened, I booked tickets for “The Presidents’ Heads”. My visit there took place in November of 2021. I met a lot of nice photographers at the Heads. A pair of them told me about this site that would eventually become COVID Road Trip #2 in April of 2022; “Old Car City” in White, Georgia. 4700 vehicles from 1918 to 1972 slowly being reclaimed by nature. It’s well-documented on YouTube.
“Twitter Barn” – Ever wonder where Elon Mollusk got the inspiration for his inventive re-naming of the Twitter platform? It was from this very barn, somewhere near the border of two States, on the way down to Georgia. TL-120-55, and some expired colour film. Could have been Provia 100F.
“Old Car City – Ford Detail” – I think this is an emblematic example of my work. Hyuk, hyuk. Sputnik, Superpan 200.
“’50 Buick OCC” – I love the 1950 Buick. GM only made that grill style for one year. Sputnik, Superpan 200.
“’50 Buick Old Car City, GA” – A different 1950 Buick. Shallow depth of field, scratch on the film. Sputnik, Superpan 200.
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COVID Road Trip #1
As soon as the borders opened, I booked tickets for “The Presidents’ Heads”. My visit took place in November of 2021. I plan to visit the site again for one of the offered light-painting workshops.
“Bedrock For Bonzo” – TL-120-55, expired Kodak LPZ.
“Anti-Vax in Denim Slacks” – I met a lot of nice photographers at the Heads. A pair of them actually told me about a site that would eventually become COVID Road Trip #2. I met one fellow who shook my hand and told me about how much he liked Canada, but then went on to say that he couldn’t go there at present because he’d have to get vaccinated. Then the conspiracy theories began to be spewed. I excused myself from the conversation, claiming that I had to return to photographing before the light faded. – Holga Stereo Colour Flash, some expired film, most likely Kodak.
“Camera Pole Assassin” – when the busts were being moved to their present location, Lincoln toppled off the flatbed and the back of his concrete head exploded. Art imitates life. TL-120-55, expired Kodak LPZ.
“Concrete Candidates” – TL-120-55, expired Kodak LPZ.
Stereoscopic Creatures And Beasts, Or Where To Find Them
“BAR BAND“
Another pinhole picture, to the delight of some, and much to the chagrin of others. This is the mighty Heavyweights Brass Band entertaining a throng at Toronto’s Rail Path, an activity that started with the COVID 19 lockdown. The band decided to rehearse outdoors; a crowd soon gathered and threw money at them, so they made their Rail Path get-together into a weekly ritual. Seen here are Tom Richards, sousaphone, Lowell Whitty, drums, and Paul Metcalfe, tenor saxophone. Not pictured; John Pittman, trumpet, and RJ Satchithananthan, trombone. The image was a bit difficult to mount with the 3D World mounts – the step at the bottom left juts out on the left image more so than on the right image. I did try to use a cardboard close-up mount, but then a good portion of the image was lost. Just don’t glance down at the bottom left hand corner and you’ll be fine.
Captured with Clint O’Connor’s Limited Edition Stereo Flyer (#11 out of 100), on a Gorillapod, 2 second exposure, expired Fuji Provia 100F. Processed in my JOBO unit.
“MONOCHROME LAKE“
This was shot in a remote region of Northern Ontario, situated on Monochrome Lake, not to be confused with Black Lake, Mono Lake, Grey Lake or Gray Lake. The dumping of nuclear waste in the region caused the vegetation to devoid itself of its photosynthetic pigments, chlorophylls a & b, resulting in its inability to preferentially absorb light. This manifests as foliage with a very grey appearance. Monochrome Lake has experienced its fifteen minutes of fame – it was used as the location for the incredibly popular “Creature From The Black And White Lagoon” 3D movie franchise. It has also been featured in some episodes of the television series “Black And White Mirror”, currently streaming on one or another of those television streaming services that streams television. I guess that’s technically more than fifteen minutes of fame, as those “Creature” movies are well over an hour each. But I digress. Just in case you think I’m trying to hand you another one of my tall tales, I shot this image on Velvia 100 to prove that the area really looks like this in person. There. I knew that would convince you.
Captured with a Sputnik, handheld, on Velvia 100. Processed in my JOBO CPP2 unit.
“BEWARE OF DUCK“
I wanted to obtain some sunflowers, as one is wont to do, and was shadowed by a highly-trained, very aggressive Attack Duck. It was a situation most fowl! I was operating on a wing and a prayer as it tried to egg me on! When I finished gathering the sunflowers I told it to send me the bill!
Captured with a 3D World TL120-1 modified with a Thurston lens board and Mamiya 55mm lenses (TL120-55) on EGGspired KoDUCK E100G, sunny 16 (Sunflower 16) rule, processed in my Jobo CPP2 unit.
“SCREAMING HEADS TWO“
A wide angle cha-cha experiment. The lower left hand corner has an issue, so don’t glance down there. I’m sensing a theme! I shot this handheld, so perhaps it’s time to invest in a slider bar. From my similar submission to the recent Dragon Folio loop:
“Every year, Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day falls on the last Sunday in April. It is an excuse for my daughter and I to spend a day together photographing various locations in Ontario using pinhole cameras. I will usually pack a “lensed” camera in addition to my pinhole camera(s). On WPPD 2019 we visited artist Peter Camani’s residence which hosts his grand scale outdoor art exhibition. There are various shapes of cast concrete screaming heads situated throughout his 310-acre property near Burk’s Falls, Ontario, each sculpture being in the 15-20 foot tall range. On this occasion I had packed my Hasselblad SWC, and I can’t remember if I was consciously trying to capture a stereo cha-cha image or not. In any case, I found an uncut roll of film with three pairs of images that looked like they might work as stereo pairs. Despite some anomalies between the left and right chips, my brain can fuse these images into a stereo image. Hasselblad SWC, yellow or orange drop-in filter, expired Kodak Aerochrome film, home processed with a Jobo CPP2 unit.”
BTS: Chuck Comes Across a Wood Nymph – St. Mary’s Wilderness
Chuck Holzner was a onetime contributor to the MF3d folios, and we occasionally worked together on a project. Here we are in the St. Mary’s Wilderness, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, about five years ago? He joined me and my model for a fairly strenuous hike to find some nice situations where we could photograph lovely Maia, who was a champ trooping along in the woods for several hours. We were heavily laden with cameras and snacks and water! He brought his sputnik, I brought my sputnik plus a TL120-55 on loan from John Thurston (many thanks!), plus a couple of digital cameras, and all the necessary tripods. Thus armed, lots of silly pictures got made.
(by the way, the tag “BTS” stands for Behind The Scenes)
Two Sepia, Two Pinholes.
Sepia images and Pinhole images just naturally go together. Okay, so maybe they don’t, but these are the images that I’ve selected for this go-’round of the Folio.
- “Ep-PIN-phone” – this image was made with one of Todd Schlemmer’s TerraPIN Oskar 2 stereo cameras. Todd’s camera creations are 3D printed using environmentally-friendly materials. The exposure time for this image was about 26 minutes.
- “Pixel Rick At The Precipice” – expired Kodak TXP processed in Developer 2 by Dr. 5, captured with a TL-120-55.
- “Sgt. Ghost Peppers’ Lonely Pinhole Band” – captured with the TerraPIN Oskar 2. Exposure was approximately 19 seconds.
- “Wedge” – expired TXP, TL-120-55.