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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
Una malinconica immagine della città in cui viene deciso il destino del mondo. Washington è un luogo difficile da comprendere, sembra ci abiti il mondo intero che corre per arrivare non si sa dove. Di Italia ne avevo vista pochissima, mentre era tangibile la sensazione di sentirsi straniero. La salutai senza promettere a me stesso di tornarci, nonostante ne apprezzai le tante splendide attrattive, in primis il cimitero (autentico monumento nazionale) di Arlington, con la tomba del presidente J. F. Kennedy, luogo da visitare almeno una volta nella vita, dove la sosta si accompagna a uno stato d'animo che è giusto non provare neanche a descrivere. Quella malinconia di fondo mi è rimasta dentro, immutata dopo due anni, quasi come un'essenza trasmessa attraverso chissà quali vie da un grande angolo di mondo che per sua natura deve proiettarsi da qui all'eternità.
Washington, 18 agosto 2024
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 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)
Mount Baker glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington in the United States. Mount Baker has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range after Mount St. Helens. About 30 miles (48 km) due east of the city of Bellingham, Whatcom County, Mount Baker is the youngest volcano in the Mount Baker volcanic field. While volcanism has persisted here for some 1.5 million years, the current volcanic cone is likely no more than 140,000 years old, and possibly no older than 80–90,000 years. Older volcanic edifices have mostly eroded away due to glaciation.
After Mount Rainier, Mount Baker has the heaviest glacier cover of the Cascade Range volcanoes; the volume of snow and ice on Mount Baker, 0.43 cu mi (1.79 km3) is greater than that of all the other Cascades volcanoes (except Rainier) combined. It is also one of the snowiest places in the world; in 1999, Mount Baker Ski Area, located 9 mi (14.5 km) to the northeast, set the world record for recorded snowfall in a single season—1,140 in (29 m; 95 ft).
Mount Baker is the third-highest mountain in Washington and the fifth-highest in the Cascade Range, if Little Tahoma Peak, a subpeak of Mount Rainier, and Shastina, a subpeak of Mount Shasta, are not counted. Located in the Mount Baker Wilderness, it is visible from much of Greater Victoria, Nanaimo, and Greater Vancouver in British Columbia, and to the south, from Seattle (and on clear days Tacoma) in Washington.
(Wikipedia)
The past weekend was one of rain and mud and photographs taken in both. The roads pushed my skills and my tires beyond comfort. At one point, I found myself sliding sideways down a steep hill. Fortunately, I was able to crawl back down.
But that wasn't this hill. This hill also saw me unable to pass due to mud. I was joined for a short while by a large truck with tires bigger than my own that turned around here due to conditions.
And while I stopped here for the same reason, the company I found and the scene all around me led me to stay rather than return right away.
For the next hour, I photographed the buildings and the home, the cows and the road. The rains continued until they stopped without my notice. And when I looked up, I saw a bit of blue sky for the first time all weekend.
I have no reservations about shooting in the rain, and I'm not sure why anyone does. I'm not talking monsoons or some great deluge, of course. Just normal rain. If you take some small precautions and aren't shooting with anything that has a circuit board, you and your camera will be fine.
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'And Floated'
Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5;27cm
Film: Fomapan 400
Exposure: f/12; 1/125sec; Yellow Filter
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Washington
May 2022
Autumn golden sunset (with a bit of smoke).
The US Pacific Northwest contributes a huge amount of the nation’s produce. Harvest season - Autumn or Fall if you prefer - is also a time of wildfire smoke impacting the human, animal & plant life of this area.
Washington grows 8B pounds (3.63B kg) of the 11B pounds of US apples produced in 2025 & has been the leading apple-growing State since the early 1920s.
In fact, WA leads also in pears, raspberries & blueberries - and has a significant grape harvest.
Grapes 1648
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'Your Garden'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5; 27cm
Film: Kodak Tri-X; x-01/1981
Exposure: f/24; 2sec
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 10min
Washington
November 2022