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Poached Egg Plant | Limnanthes douglasii | Limnanthaceae
Samsung NX1 & Steinheil Munchen 'Cassar S' - 50mm f/2.8
16mm Macro Tube | 12 Aperture Blades | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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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.
I think I'll be returning to this area over the next day or so. I'm not really in trail shape, and it's a longish (for me) overnight hike.
It'll be me, the tent, the quilt and the Chamonix for a dozen or so miles. I'm not bringing another camera. I'll have more than enough time to take it easy and just relax into the walking and shooting.
Since I've photographed this place before, I'm looking to find new views. And if my legs will allow it, there's another section to explore. We'll see if I can make it.
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'Untimely'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm
Film: Foma Retropan 320; Yellow Filter
Exposure: f/9; 1/100
Process: Foma Retro Special; 4.5min
Douglas County, Washington
September 2021
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
This old lady is an absolute rarity. Former ZS-FTE was made airworthy again by Morlock Aviation and provided with Olive Air titles. Was used among others for the German TV-series "Steel Buddies".
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'The Figure'
Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5;27cm
Film: Fomapan 100
Exposure: f/12; 2sec; 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
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
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
No journey through Douglas County is complete without seeing basalt boulders bigger than houses (well, smallish houses, but still, houses).
This small conglomeration of boulders was probably one large boulder at one time that had been broken apart by weather and entropy over the past 15,000 or so years.
When the glaciers receeded around tha time, they left a quite a mess. Strew over the varied ground of northenr Douglas County are mounds of rocks and debris plowed up as the glaciers descended from Candada.
On top of that (sometime literally), the floods that came through the area from 20,000 to 15,000 years ago added both tumbled boulders and ice-rafted boulders to the mix. It's often difficult to tell which are which (to my untrained eye, anyway).
Since these are basalt and much of the bedrock in this area is basalt, it's likely that they did not travel too far. Other usually smaller boulders were rafted for hundreds of miles (to locations far down stream).
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'And Secrets'
Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5;27cm
Film: Ilford HP5+ at 1600ISO
Exposure: f/16; 8sec; Yellow Filter
Process: HC-110B; 11min
Douglas County, Washington
April 2022
James 3:11 “A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?”
For as many times as I've been to Douglas County, you'd think that there would hardly be a road that I missed. But this one was new to me, and fortunately still open as a public road.
It is seldom used, and I saw only one other set of tire tracks apart from my own.
I also wound up shooting a few sheets of Fomapan 200. I usually stick with 100, but figured I'd break out the speedy stuff for the gray day (heh).
Still, with an ND1000 filter (that's 10 stops) I wound up with a minute-long exposure. I think the meter indicated I should expose for 30 seconds, so I added a stop for the sake of reciprocity.
According to Foma's own reciprocity chart, I should have exposed it for around 7 minutes, but Foma seems to believe its emulsions have the worst reciprocity failure in the history of reciprocity failures.
I mean, that's literally adding nearly three stops. I could see how adding one stop (so, a two minute exposure) might have helped a little, but three stops would have blown the hell out of my highlights. And I was even using a Gradutated ND8 filter.
So that's one hell of a filter stack. Especially for a gray day.
- Deep Yellow Filter (1 stop)
- ND1000 Filter (10 stops)
- Graduated ND8 Filter (3 stops)
I love long exposures.
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'Malign'
Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5;27cm
Film: Fomapan 200
Exposure: f/16; 60sec; Yellow Filter
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Douglas County, Washington
April 2022
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Matthew 20:16 “So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”
Last year's wildfire utterly wiped out the sage in the US Route 2 area of Moses Coulee. It will take decades to recover.
It happened over Labor Day Weekend, when intense 70+mph winds carried the fire from the Columbia River to the highway, burning over 350 square miles of land.
This, along with the Cold Springs fire across the river, burned tribal, federal, state and private land. Everyone suffered here.
This was my first visit to the land since the fire, and it was like nothing I had ever seen before. I had been to Moses Coulee countless times before, but this looked empty, like a moonscape.
The Coleville Reservation lost the most, with 78 homes being destroyed. A family camping along the Columbia lost a small child to the blaze.
It's unknown how the fires started, though it's very unlikely they were from natural causes.
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'Back On You'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Kodak Verichrome Pan; x-01/1996
Process: HC-110B; 4.25min
Douglas County, Washington
March 2021
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.
Acts 28:23 “And [when they] had set a day with him, many more came to him at his lodging place, to whom he was explaining from early in the morning until evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and attempting to convince them about Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets.”
“Digital IDs and AI Dreams: How Canada and Europe Plan to Sync the Future”
“The digital credentials agreement creates a working forum for joint experiments, technical coordination, and the testing of digital identity wallets.”
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Sovereignty: you ain’t got no stinking sovereignty! We be building a one-world governance BEAST system…yes we be. You’ll be global citizens of da New World State.
Zechariah 10:2 “For vain is the answer of Idols. The soothsayers see lies, and tell but vain dreams. The comfort that they give, is nothing worth. Therefore go they astray like a flock of sheep, and are troubled, because they have no shepherd.”
I've been told that I talk about Eastern Washington too much. Maybe it's a contextual thing. Maybe it's just true.
I used to tell people that they need to see it. But they almost never do, and when they do, they don't really know what to do with it.
So generally, I don't unless it's some specific location. And even then, I feel bad. I know it's not something for everyone.
I do think that with a guide, it makes it a bit easier. It took me years to "get it". But now I think I do.
Or at least, I know what I like about it, even if I can't really put that into words.
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'Center'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Ilford Pan F+
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 5min
Douglas County, Washington
September 2021
“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.”
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
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.
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
Douglas Super DC-3S (cn 43354) seen about to lift off runway 15 at it's home base of ANC.
Built as C-47A 42-24345 for the USAAF and tranferred to the USN as R4D-5 BuNo 39080 and later modified to an R4D-8 with a new (cn 43354).
Civilianized as N2071X, then to Millardair Ltd as C-GCKG and later to Ken Borek Air. The Canadian registration is visible on the fin through the faded paint.