squirtiesdad
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A variety of flotsam—wooden posts, dried brush, and stones half-buried in the sand—lie in a chaotic jumble about the base of trestle 49 in the support structure of the Rocksprings train bridge. Carried along by the current of the rain-fed Mojave River in winter and spring, the flotsam either tumbles along between the trestles or gets snagged among their vertical wooden support posts (piles). The trestles, mostly constructed like these two, with six piles driven into the river bed and reinforced with horizontal and diagonal braces, are numbered one through sixty, with number one on the western bank and number sixty on the eastern edge. The numbers, which I suspect are used to identify the individual trestles when repair is necessary, have been painted on by hand with a brush—very old school :-)
Camera: Voigtländer Brillant (1932-1937, with Voigtar Anastigmat 7.5 cm f/7.7 lens). This is the model with the all-metal body and zone-focusing lens, and judging by the serial number, this camera was made in 1933. The German-made Brillants were apparently exported to a variety of countries, with the “Portrait,” “Group,” and “Landscape” zone-focusing terms on the front panel printed in the language of the country where the camera was to be sold. The words on the front panel of this camera are printed in Polish/Czech/Slovak, so I assume that the camera was originally sold in Poland and what was then Czechoslovakia.
Film: Kodak Plus-X Pan 120 (expired 1977), exposed at EI 25, developed in Arista Liquid Developer (1+9) for 5:45 minutes @ 67 degrees, and scanned with an Epson V600 scanner.
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A variety of flotsam—wooden posts, dried brush, and stones half-buried in the sand—lie in a chaotic jumble about the base of trestle 49 in the support structure of the Rocksprings train bridge. Carried along by the current of the rain-fed Mojave River in winter and spring, the flotsam either tumbles along between the trestles or gets snagged among their vertical wooden support posts (piles). The trestles, mostly constructed like these two, with six piles driven into the river bed and reinforced with horizontal and diagonal braces, are numbered one through sixty, with number one on the western bank and number sixty on the eastern edge. The numbers, which I suspect are used to identify the individual trestles when repair is necessary, have been painted on by hand with a brush—very old school :-)
Camera: Voigtländer Brillant (1932-1937, with Voigtar Anastigmat 7.5 cm f/7.7 lens). This is the model with the all-metal body and zone-focusing lens, and judging by the serial number, this camera was made in 1933. The German-made Brillants were apparently exported to a variety of countries, with the “Portrait,” “Group,” and “Landscape” zone-focusing terms on the front panel printed in the language of the country where the camera was to be sold. The words on the front panel of this camera are printed in Polish/Czech/Slovak, so I assume that the camera was originally sold in Poland and what was then Czechoslovakia.
Film: Kodak Plus-X Pan 120 (expired 1977), exposed at EI 25, developed in Arista Liquid Developer (1+9) for 5:45 minutes @ 67 degrees, and scanned with an Epson V600 scanner.