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Paul Gillis d24 submissions

by Paul Gillis

Willow in the West Virginia Hills

This crooked old tree is near the Smokehole Gorge in Pendleton County, W. Va. It’s right behind an old farmhouse that my caving club has used as a field house for many years, about a mile up a very rough gravel lane from the South Branch of the Potomac. All 4 of these slides were taken with my TL-120-1 on Provia 100.

Hillside Shack

Not really a shack, but a storage shed, very close to the willow tree above.  Late afternoon in the fall.

Neptune Fountain

In my opinion, Washington’s most impressive fountain.  Officially called “The Court of Neptune”, it is in front of the Library of Congress’ Thomas Jefferson Building, facing the U.S. Capitol.  The bronzes were sculpted by Roland Hinton Perry, and carvings on the masonry of the grotto were done by Albert Weinert.  Perry was inspired by the Trevi Fountain in Rome.  It was finished in 1898, shortly after the Jefferson Building opened.

A Nereid Riding a Hippocamp

One of the two sea nymphs riding mythic sea horses in the Neptune Fountain.

 

Jim Harp d20 submission

by Jim Harp

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

San Francisco. 5/17. Twin Mamiya c-220s, 135mm lenses.

Chicken of the Sea. 6/17. TL-120, Coney Island Mermaid P.

Pink Mermaid. 6/17.TL-120 with Vivitar 285H Fill Flash.

Ghost Child/twilight. 5/12. TL-120, Kaohsiung – (Taiwan).

Left and Right

by John Thurston

Right Side

If the Juneau tourists get a bus to the Mendenhall Glacier, a mile long walk along the willows on the lake shore will bring them to the bottom of Nugget Creek. It offers a nice waterfall, and good view of the glacier.We’ve been here before.

Left Side

And if one walks several miles up the “left” side of the lake, and climbs a little, it is much quieter and less crowded.  Not many unguided tourists make it this far up the trail, so when I meet one I try to make them feel welcome. If the lenses in your viewer are good, you can see the crowd of tourists on the beech at the base of the waterfall.

Twenty years ago, all the open water in both images was ice. The face of the glacier was just past the rightmost iceberg in the second image. At that time, the bedrock was below more than 100′ of ice, and Nugget Falls disappeared under the edge of the glacier.

Both images are from my TL120, Nugget Falls has been captured with Kodak E100G rather than my usual Provia.

Town and Tours

by John Thurston

So Many Choices

Juneau is historically a gold town. More recently, it is a tourist town. On a ‘good’ day, cruise ships can deliver more than 15,000 passengers to shore. And when all those people get ashore, they need to find something to do. Most of the ships work hard to sell package tours on board to their captive audience, but there are still folks on the sidewalks ready to help put tourists on buses out to the glacier or to another dock where they can grab a whale-watch tour.

Whales, Whales, Whales

Most of the vendors are seasonal workers. They arrive from Outside at the start of the season, rent their booth, and sell tours on commission. They’re assertive, but friendly. I’m not often mistaken for a tourist (wrong clothing and not enough tan), but when I am I listen to their pitch before turning them down.

Both of these are from my TL120 on Provia.

Down the Throat

by John Thurston

As a bonus image, I’m including a little bit of blue. Like all of my under-glacier images, the light is dim and the location is long gone.

I’m standing in the stream which has cut its way under the ice. The ground is gravel over bedrock, and the deeper one goes the thicker the layer of gravel is. By this point, the gravel is thick enough so the stream is completely contained in the gaps between the stones. The running water carries heat under the ice which creates a gap. Then warm air start to move through and widen the gaps. The color variation in the ceiling is from the variation in thickness and sand content.

I’ve tried several times to try to duplicate this image by print and by film. In call cases, the color reproduction has stymied me. The colors reproduced by the film are not easily obtainable in any of the ink or film-recorder color spaces I’ve tried. I’ll try again in a few more years. Until then, please enjoy this original with all of its subtle colors.

Philip’s Folio a30 Submissions

by Philip Steinman

MFscan_017 Vincent's 6th bday-Vincent’s 6th Birthday Party
My four kids sitting in our kitchen behind the cake: Valentine 7, Emilie 8, Vincent 6, and Kevin 10 with baby pics of Vincent in the foreground, surrounded by this years crop of friends, classmates, and teammates on his A’s AA little league team. A family snapshot, but hopefully something more to remember.

Kids at Paramount RanchKids at Paramount RanchKevin 10, Valentine 7, Vincent 6, and Emilie 8 These are my 4 kids at one of our favorite places to hike, explore, watch silent movies under the stars, and dream of being in a cowboy western movie. Some overlapping of images here as I manually wind the TL120 camera. I cropped this out.

MVP Swing, Hunter LaPlanteMFscan_2400_038 Hunter LaPlante-Every team has one, an MVP, only Hunter was also the 10 year old’s league MVP. 7 of his teammates scattered across this photo with 3 of them looking on (the one in the middle is my son Kevin). Hunter has a sweet baseball swing. He never strikes out and hits 3rd in the lineup of our championship team. You can see the intensity and focus in his eyes with his level perfect bat meets the ball swing.
Shot with Kodak EPR film on TL120 which gives an entirely different look (nostalgic) than Fuji Provia (realistic).

Yankees Championship PhotoMFscan_2400_040 Yankees Championship Photo-The Encino Little League Minors 2018 Championship was won by the Yankees. A year these kids will never forget as they went wire to wire 1st place and undefeated in the playoffs to capture the championship trophy.
Shot with Kodak EPR film on TL120 which gives an entirely different look (nostalgic) than Fuji Provia (realistic).

I had some problems winding the manual TL120 camera. Do you wind until the # shot is in the red viewfinder on back or do you wind until the # is in the viewer finder or passes it and the wind is complete? Because of this I had some images that overlapped at the edges (and I cropped that part out). Tips appreciated, as I usually shot with my autowind Fuji GA645w, but always cha-cha.

Submission 2018

by Nik Sekhar

 

Thanks for allowing me to share my images with you. I’ve enjoyed your images

Nik Sekhar

Awaiting Release

by John Thurston

FolioA-A30306The Mendenhall is magnificent from a distance. It is spectacular if you can get up close and personal.

The ice has layers and threadsof dirt and sand which were washed down and embedded in the originating snow. As the glacier is pushed down the valley, the face melts away and the embedded dirt, sand, sticks, leaves, and silt are released. You should be suspicious of anyone selling you “crystal clear glacier ice” 🙂

Tripod mounted TL120-1, DR5-processed HP5

 

Learning the Ropes

by John Thurston

FolioA-A30303The Mendenhall glacier is in a National Forest, so commercial exploitation is expected and encouraged. One business here hikes you to the ice. There, you don crampons and helmets before setting off on an ice-trek. Four hours earlier, these folks were probably disembarking from their cruise ship. Now they’re on the glacier and about to practice their fall-arrests.

This is a cool place to live.

Tripod mounted TL120-1, most likely done on Provia 100.