Malta, Illinois (population 1,139)

The day's first warm light, enhanced by wildfire smoke, on Mt. Adams 50 miles away as seen from Dege Peak. A few of the peaks of the Governor's Ridge in between caught the glow nicely as well. The hike in the dark was sure worth it this morning to reach this spot before the dawn's beauty slipped away.

"Mount Adams, known by some Native American tribes as Pahto or Klickitat, is a potentially active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range. Although Adams has not erupted in more than 1,000 years, it is not considered extinct. It is the second-highest mountain in Washington, after Mount Rainier.

Adams, named for President John Adams, is a member of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, and is one of the arc's largest volcanoes, located in a remote wilderness approximately 34 miles (55 km) east of Mount St. Helens." Wikipedia

Hope to get to know this iconic peak more....

Happy Friday! Enjoy a wonderful day and weekend!

Ansel Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That’s a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged :-)

Joel Sternfeld

HPPT!! Truth Matters! Lies have consequences!

many petalled star magnolia, 'Chrysanthemumiflora', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

Malta, Illinois population 1,139

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJsBenxz_EM

Captivated by Colour (2020) by Camille Walala.

Created for the first ever London Mural Festival in September 2020, Camile Walala reimagined Adams Plaza Bridge with enchanting geometric shapes and every aspect of the colour wheel.

Artwork by Camille Walala. Canary Wharf, London.

Thirsty Adams may or may not be coming to Slexfix early next year. Keep an eye out for the zany adventures of Thirsty.

You keep following route 2 through Western Massachusetts until you almost hit the NY border! This little wonder is right there in North Adams. The trail itself is magnificent, but parking is a problem.

Mt. Adams rises to the north of the Hood River Valley, fronted by a balsamroot covered hillside.

Just got back from a great overnight stay at Ricketts Glen where my eldest daughter and I spent exploring the glen there under very impressive water flow with all the recent rains.

Here was the first capture taken yesterday once we arrived.

Fresh thunderstorms overnight made for extremely wet and great conditions this morning there, and took tons of waterfall captures.

Canary Wharf, London.

Finally was able to see this giant Cascade volcanic peak for the first time last weekend. After a warm, smokey summer, the first touches of fall were showing -- including a fresh white dusting of wintry weather atop the peak from the day before.

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)

There are many different angles to consider when photographing Adams Falls. This is my favorite composition as it showcases the cascade of water flowing over the beautiful maple leaf shaped rock in the foreground.

There is hardly a bad angle to shoot at this location. And even under disinterested skies and low light, the photos came quickly.

I spent maybe 45 minutes here, and collected a few rolls and half dozen sheets (maybe more... probably more).

This yard once saw lives and generations working and building. This wagon held wheat. The grasses were once trimmed and the trees beared fruit.

The skies were clear and the fields not fallow. The barn behind the camera, out of our sight, stood strong over harvesters and horses. The house held dreams.

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'Process'

Camera: Chamonix 45F-2

Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 8/90mm

Film: Fomapan 100

Exposure: f/64; 1sec

Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min

Adams County, Washington

October 2021

Happy Halloween, okay?

This is the spookiest photo I've taken lately.

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'I Can See Your Eyes, I Can See Your Brain'

Camera: Mamiya RB67

Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm

Film: Ilford Pan F+

Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 5min

Adams County, Washington

October 2021

Out of all of the Horst-Heimbigner House photos I've taken, this one seems to be the most dishonest. Here, the house seems small and separate from the world.

In this photo, there is no destroyed barn behind me. There are no outbuildings filled with barbed wire. There's not a wagon beside me, not a strange ball of fencing to my front. And where it all went in this shot, I couldn't say.

It's important (to me) to explore a scene to find new looks. A place like this can give you near countless.

'Universal No. 2'

Camera: Graflex Crown Graphic (1954)

Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm

Film: Fuji HR-U X-Ray Film; 25iso

Process: Rodinal; 1+50; 4mins

Adams County, Washington

October 2021

This photo of Mt. Adams was taken through the plane window flying south from Seattle, Washington.

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'To Have a House'

Camera: Mamiya RB67

Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm

Film: Ilford Pan F+

Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 5min

Adams County, Washington

October 2021

In a different light, these old wires would glisten and the shadows would play a larger roll.

Throw some better clouds in here, and quite a lovely lil pic.

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'Like We Planned'

Camera: Mamiya RB67

Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm

Film: Fomapan 100

Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min

Adams County, Washington

October 2021

Just because Halloween is over, doesn't mean that the scares are over.

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'Walked Alone'

Camera: Mamiya RB67

Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm

Film: Ilford Pan F+

Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 5min

Adams County, Washington

October 2021

An early morning shot of Mt. Adams and Takhlakh Lake

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'Expectant'

Camera: Mamiya RB67

Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm

Film: Ilford Pan F+

Process: PMK; 1+2+100; 7.5min

Adams County, Washington

May 2021

Wildflowers surround Mt Adams during the summer months.

Adams Lake State Park, West Union, Ohio, USA

Yellow waterlilies

Adams Lake State Park is a 95-acre Ohio state park near West Union, in Adams County, Ohio in the United States. The park is named for Adams Lake which was built to supply fresh water to the village of West Union.

Wikipedia

This is another scene I photographed with multiple cameras and film, but I think I like this best.

Again, this Steinheil lens does some really wonderful things.

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'Malice and Magic'

Camera: Graflex Crown Graphic (1954)

Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm

Film: Fomapan 100

Exposure: f/9; 1/200sec; Yellow Filter

Process: Foma Retro Special; 4min

Adams County, Washington

April 2021

A Ferris flower. :-)

taken with my new 150-600mm Tamron lens and hand held even at 600mm! (ISO of 500)

View in Large screen to see the lights!

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'Floating'

Camera: Graflex Crown Graphic (1954)

Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm

Film: Foma Retropan 320

Exposure: f/12.5; 1/200sec; Yellow Filter

Process: Foma Retro Special; 4.5min

Adams County, Washington

May 2021

On Thanksgiving, I revisited a few places that I had recently visited before that. It covered many of the places in the latest issue of In This Land.

I'm not exactly sure why I wanted to do this. I think it's mostly because I just wanted to.

But now, looking at the seven rolls I shot (which covered a good many new-to-me places), I'm considering doing another issue of In This Land from these.

In a way, it would be a continuation, and there's enough difference there that few of the locations (and none of the shots) would be the same.

Regardless of what I end up doing, it was a beautiful day, beginning here - as a school house I've never seen before.

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'And Longer'

Camera: Mamiya RB67

Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm

Film: Foma Retropan 320

Process: Foma Retro Special; 4.5min

Adams County, Washington

November 2021

After several years, I returned to the Horst-Heimbigner House to find that the barn had fallen down. But I was able to spend a good deal of time on the grounds shooting it with various cameras. More will follow.

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'Relapsed'

Camera: Mamiya RB67

Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm

Film: Fomapan 100

Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min

Adams County, Washington

October 2021

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'Occasional 2'

Camera: Graflex RB, Series B; 2x3

Lens: Kodak Ektar 4.5/127mm

Film: Kodak Ektachrome E100SW; x-2/1998; 25iso

Processing: DIY ECN-2

Adams County, Washington

April 2021

Abandoned in downtown Adams, TN.

First autumn snow coats Mt. Adams in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

It's a bit of a scramble getting down to this point, so I decided to take a photo while percher precariously on a little ledge. I like shooting bridges from this angle, showing where the bridge meets the land. I did this at Crooked River in Oregon a few years back. Maybe it'll be a thing.

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'Reach'

Camera: Mamiya RB67

Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90

Film: Tri-X 400; x-90s; 50iso

Process: HC-110B; 7.5min

Adams County, Washington

May 2021

The Lind Viaduct carried Milwaukee Road over the Northern Pacific Railway's main line. First built in 1909, it was an all-wooden structure. A few years later, they poured the concrete for the piers on either side of the valley created by the NP's tracks.

There was a structure similar to this one on the other side, with two pillars in the middle. The span was supported by a series of steel legs.

The viaduct carried rail traffic until June of 1979.

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'The Same Stars'

Camera: Mamiya RB67

Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm

Film: Fomapan 100

Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min

Adams County, Washington

October 2021

With all of the photos that I took of the Horst-Heimbigner property, I believe I've painted a pretty complete picture of the layout. Still, It's hard to really tell, even from these six x-ray photos.

Which probably means I'll be heading back.

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'Universal No. 1'

Camera: Graflex Crown Graphic (1954)

Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm

Film: Fuji HR-U X-Ray Film; 25iso

Process: Rodinal; 1+50; 4mins

Adams County, Washington

October 2021

And a lesson was learned! Always check for dust on your polarizing filter after a vehicle passes on a rock or gravel road!

Built in 1926 and operated until 1983 when it was added to the National Register of Historical Places. It was burned down in August 2018 due to safety issues.

This elevator would sway with the strong Oklahoma winds according to locals. After a news story broke in 2017, people came from near and far to check out this icon. We were scheduled to go there for a milky way photo with it and they burned it just a few days before we were to be there.

Adams Oklahoma

If you follow Ansel Adams' work, he has one piece that titled "Church and Road, Bodega Bay". We stumbled upon this church while we were looking for the school house featured in Hitchcock's film, "The Bird". Later, I realized that this was the same church that Ansel Adams had taken a photo of. To honor him, I purposely processed this image in black and white.

You can find Adams' version here:

www.artnet.com/artists/ansel-adams/church-and-road-bodega...

In the places I tramp through Eastern Washington, bunchgrass (specifically, Great Basin Wildrye) is often rare. On this part of Drumheller Channels, a lone clump of grass was all that remained. I think it used to be more plentiful here.

When horses were introduced into the area by the Cayuse, bunchgrass was everywhere and the horses just loved it. When ranching essentially took over eastern Washington, much of the bunchgrass was over-grazed.

There are still places where you can see it growing as it did before colonization, but here, there's just this one bunch, surviving best it can among the smaller, more boring, grasses below.

I caught it in the late afternoon sun, and hoped it would make for a decent portrait.

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'Invisible'

Camera: Chamonix 45F-2

Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-S 5.6/150mm

Film: Foma Retropan 320

Exposure: f/5.6; 1/500sec; Red Filter

Process: Foma Retro Special; 4.5min

Adams, Washington

April 2021