Douglas DC-3 (C-47)
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Had a few visits to this place over the past few years, this lighthouse always attracts me there, i actually spoke to the Lighthouse keeper who told me to walk behind the lighthouse to get to this vantage point.
As the afternoon wore quickly on, the clouds grew darker.
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'Nothing Could Fall'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Ilford FP4+
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Douglas County, Washington
November 2021
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'For Time'
Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5;27cm
Film: Fomapan 200
Exposure: f/12; 1sec; Yellow Filter
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Douglas County, Washington
April 2022
This site has become a stopping place for me. I use it to spend the last moments of daylight to expose the last frame or two or the last sheet left in a holder.
Returning again and again to the same spot allows me to attempt different things with different lenses and emulsions. It's never exactly revelatory, but I enjoy the sense of finality.
The day is done. The sun is setting. The air is cooler. The dayhikers have gone home. It is me and Umatilla Rock at the base of Grand Coulee with millions of years of history surrounding.
And with each photo taken here, I make some sort of stab towards what I would do differently next time. And whatever I decide, I'll likely forget anyway, especially at the end of a day.
This is not a complaint. This is how I like it to be. The true revision comes not in revising, but in re-doing.
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'Glimpse of Hope'
Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5; 27cm
Film: Fomapan 100
Exposure: f/4.5; 1/5sec; Yellow Filter
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Douglas County, Washington
April 2022
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'Is Painless'
Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5;27cm
Film: Fomapan 100
Exposure: f/16; 4sec; Yellow Filter
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Douglas County, Washington
April 2022
On Saturday I took a much-needed day to travel the muddy backroads of Douglas County. It was a day full of rain. I took a couple of dozen large format shots - all in the rain.
Sometimes it was on the slightly heavy side, other times it was a dizzle. But it was an all day affair.
I was soaked and muddy, which is a drastic change from the usual dry and dusty.
None of the roads were in bad shape. It's the spring, and even the minor roads have been recently graded. Apart from the paved roads where traffic was normal, on dirt I passed only two cars the entire day.
I was alone and it was silent and wonderful. I'm still developing the shots I took, but this week I'll share as much as I can.
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'Ground Between'
Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5;27cm
Film: Ilford HP5+ at 1600ISO
Exposure:f/16; 1/250sec; Yellow Filter
Process: HC-110B; 11min
Douglas County, Washington
April 2022
I had somehow missed this strange section of Douglas County in the past decade or so that I've been visiting. Most of the roads in the county are laid out in a grid. And so when I find a road that has shaped itself to the lay of the land, it's always something I try to explore.
But this area is a little more rugged and is more of a destination than a place to easily pass through. Still, it deserves another look.
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'Superficial'
Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5;27cm
Film: Fomapan 100
Exposure: f/12; 8sec; Yellow Filter
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Douglas County, Washington
April 2022
While the family were over we got out and about a fair bit. This photo was taken from Onchan Head across the other side of the bay from the lighthouse. It was automated in 1986 and it is now possible to rent one of the Lightkeepers cottages. info about the lighthouse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Head_Lighthouse
James 3:11 “A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?”
This wall stopped me in my tracks. It definitely has some stories to tell. It reflects repairs, changes in materials, changes in function, life through generations.
About a third of the way out of the Big Bend Wildlife Area I changed rolls in the Ensign. This took the images from the crisp and clean T-max to the gritty and ancient-looking Fomapan 100. Looking at both, I'm pretty surprised by the difference.
While things like camera and emulsion "don't matter" when it comes to taking a "good" photo, the absolutely matter when trying to take a photo that you want.
I was just testing the camera (basically) and more or less knew what I was going to get with the emulsions.
Fomapan 100 is often inky and grainy. Developing it in FA-1027, however, makes it look soft - a lot like Foma Retropan with a bit deeper darks.
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'Collision'
Camera: Ensign Ful-Vue
Film: Fomapan 100
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9mins
Douglas County, Washington
September 2021
I don't get much of a chance to shoot sand, but when I do, it's usually in central and eastern Washington. These dunes in Echo Basin along the Columbia River are being blown northeast by the prevailing winds.
Trying to figure out where the sand came from is another problem all together. I assume it was left over from the stuff the became the topsoil that covered the Palouse area. Except that's mostly loess. So maybe the various sand dunes are the heavier particles that were left behind? I really don't know.
Anyway, sand dunes in Washington.
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'This Around'
Camera: Kodak Brownie No. 2, Model D
Film: Fuji Provia 100 (x-08/2000)
Process: DIY ECN-2
Douglas County, Washington
March 2020
We have 3 kinds of squirrels that visit our yard: Eastern Gray, Eastern Fox and this one, our native Douglas Squirrel. The Dougie is tiny and cute, but feisty. They will chase away the much larger squirrels away from the food.
“The government of Kuwait has again warned that citizens and expatriates who fail to register their fingerprint biometrics by December 31 will be unable to access all essential services.”
Another step closer to you can't buy or sell without the Mark of the Beast!
Romans 2:15 “They show that the essential requirements of the Law are written in their hearts; and their conscience [their sense of right and wrong, their moral choices] bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or perhaps defending them.”
Leviticus 1:12 “He is to cut up its head and fat into separate pieces arrange them in rows on the wood over the fire that burns on the altar.”
Here's a Douglas pine squirrel on a Douglas fir tree. I assume the Douglases are one and the same or closely related but haven't checked that out. The squirrels have quite the vocal cords for such small critters.
EN: In the deep afternoon light of a November day a UP coal train heads south. Working the long grade from the Antelope mine up to the hill was a well audible impression.
DE: Im tiefen Nachmittagslicht eines Novembertages arbeitete sich ein UP Kohlezug im Powder River Bassin die starke Steigung von der Antelope Mine zum bekannten Aussichtspunkt Logan Hill hinauf.
I'm sort of surprised Ilford still makes Delta. It's a competetor against Kodak's Tmax, an emulsion loved by many. Delta, however, gets a bum rap.
But I wonder if anyone could really tell them apart in side-by-side, double blind testing. Sure, folks say they could, but could they?
Also of note: I can't.
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'By the Hour'
Camera: Mamiya RB67 (1974)
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm; Red Filter
Film: Ilford Delta 100
Process: Rodinal; 1+50; 14mins
Douglas County, Washington
September 2019