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Here's the second shot of our winter outing yesterday. The Sea to Sky Series.
A view of the mountains south of Mt Baker in Washington. Viewed from 0 Ave in Aldergrove.
Taken from the cog rail of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. This was during fall and there are varied fall colours on the mountains. Mount washington by itself has very little color to display. On a side not, it is officially the worst weather in the world.
For the number of times I've spent the weekend in Douglas County, it's surprising that there are still roads I've never been down and scenes I've never shot.
I was driving up a hill and entering a cut, and I knew there would be a homestead on the other side. It just seemed right. It was the land and just how they did things.
I stopped at the crest and found a shot, trying out a couple of lenses before settling on the 135mm. I thought for sure that the 270mm would work better - and I used it for a full frame shot right after this.
But for this one, I wanted to show how the three buildings - barn, workshops, and house - interacted with the land. Especially with how the land is farmed now that the buildings are abandoned.
When these were inhabited, there would have been a lane carved up to the house and into the barn. There might have been a path or walkway to the shops. But now, it's just a field, maybe newly planted, maybe left fallow for the year.
Still, I fell in love with this little scene and I'm glad I shot it.
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'Let the Fields'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm
Film: Fomapan 100
Exposure: f/18; 18125sec
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Washington
May 2023
The late summer roads are deep with dust from a rainless season of travel. Each passing tractor and truck digs more earth out of roadbed, sinking the road little by little each year. The dust on top is finer than Double 0 flour. Driving in it is similar to driving in snow, though the skills to do one don't necessarily transfer to the skills to do the other.
When driving summer roads blind, just to see where they end up, conditions can change quickly. You can move from these deep ruts of dust to driving on grass or along the sharp edge of a freshly-harvested wheat field.
These roads are hardly driven by anyone but farmers and the rare photographer. Stopping along them is usually not an issue, as even the busiest will see only a few cars a day.
Most of these roads are closed in winter so that emergency workers won't have to risk their lives to drag out a stranded motorist. It also frees up resources as they don't have to be plowed.
Then in spring, a quick grading by a dosser of some kind and they're back to nearly regular dirt roads.
In the dry, later days of spring, these summer roads are packed earth. But by August, the dust lays several inches deep.
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'The Opposite Affect'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Ilford HP5+ at 1600iso
Process: HC-110B; 11min
Washington
August 2022
The Washington Monument, designed in the simple shape of an ancient Egyptian obelisk, was built in honour of George Washington. Constructed between 1848 and 1884 it was the tallest structure in the world at the time of completion, until the construction of the Eiffel Tower in France in 1889. The monument however remains the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 554 feet 7 11/32 inches (169.046 m) tall. It has an aluminum apex, which at the time of casting was the largest piece of aluminum in the world with Aluminum being relatively unknown having a value similar to silver. The slight change in shading of the marble at 46m (150ft) came from a halt in construction between 1854 and 1877 due to lack of funds and the civil war with construction eventually resuming from a different source of stone. National Mall, Washington DC, United States of America. Took this shot this evening, so its a rare post for me to share the day it was taken!
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The sun came and went, but mostly faded in and out of varying grays. Once in a while, the rocks would catch it and they would shine.
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'Washing Away'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Fomapan 100
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Washington
May 2023
The state of Washington's second highest peak, at 12, 289 feet. It rises 8,000 feet above it's surrounding lanscape. (Deschutes River Recreation Area IMG_5097.jpg)
It was a good day for Mountains yesterday. These are located South of Mt. Baker. I'm sorry I don't know the name of them.
Last weekend I visited several cemeteries. This was the lane leading to and from the Bucsh Family Cemetery. It used to be a lovely and well maintained lane. But now it's this.
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'Ordination'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5; 27cm
Film: Fomapan 100
Exposure: f/12; 1sec
Process: FA-1017; 1+14; 9min
Washington
April 2023
Closing out my photos taken last week is this fellow, for better or worse.
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'Transitional'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm
Film: Fomapan 100
Exposure: f/9; 1/100 sec
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Washington
May 2023
Lovely little town, with a wonderful old hotel that has been restored with marvelous care and consideration. If you ever get over that way, please stay there.
Washington Mews is a small street with a very long history. Originally part of the main foot path connecting the east and west side of Manhattan Island used by the Native American Lenape a term to describe the loose collection of tribes of the region that spoke very similar dialects and customs which were renamed the Delaware's by the Europeans. Back in the 18th century most of the land was still farmland and a large parcel was brought by Captain Robert Richard Randall a wealthy ship owner who brought the 24 acre parcel of land for 5000 pounds back when New York was still an English colony. In 1801 Captain Randall died and bequeathed in his will that the land be used for the construction for sailor homes called Sailor's Snug Harbor with a trust set from his estate to be used to run it. However a long legal battle from the children of his half brother dragged on for many years. The end result of the legal battle was the land was leased out for various commercial purposes and income from the leasing of the land the home for retired sailors was built in Staten Island. Starting in 1854 a series of stables was built along the street which were used by some of the wealthiest families in the city at the time. In 1916 the stables were remodeled into artists studios by the architectural firm Maynicke & Franke and around 1950 the buildings were leased out to New York University which converted the buildings to office and living space for top ranking faculty and administrators. The buildings also now have protected landmark status and one of the few streets in New York City that still has cobblestones.
A Cascade & Columbia River Railroad freight heads northbound near Entiat, Washington on May 11, 2015.
I haven't shot the Graflex RB 23 enough to really have a good feel for the Ektar lens. And when I first saw this photo (after devving and scanning), my first thought was "oh fun! I caught a bit of movement in the grasses from the breeze!"
And it certainly looks like that. Even in the sage brush there seems to be some. But there couldn't be. I shot this exposure at 1/750th of a second.
Even though this camera was released in 1923, it had a shutter speed of 1/1000th of a second. Seriously. Nearly 100 years ago (and longer, really) we had shutter speeds of 1/1000th of a second. Amazing!
So at that speed, virtually all movement - even shaky blur from holding the camera - would be absent.
Which means that the lens and its shallow depth of field was wholly responsible for the blur.
Pleasant!
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'Limitation'
Camera: Graflex RB, Series B; 2x3
Lens: Kodak Ektar 4.5/127mm
Film: Ilford HP5+
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 11mins
Washington
May 2022