Douglas DC-4 (C-54)
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Though the Hattie Bumgarner house is my usual feature in this scene, I thought it important to settle upon the bunchgrass. I had shot it wider before, with both the house and the bunch in something akin to focus, but this deserving plant needed more than a detail in the foreground.
Here, the house haunts the field as the grass drifts away.
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'Prime'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Rollei Retro 400S
Process: Rodinal; 1+25; 10.5min
Douglas County, Washington
April 2022
This past weekend, I finally left the city. I had been homebound since returning at the end of July and I was desperately missing the road. It was only an overnight, but it was very needed.
Most of the weekend was spent at the Big Bend Wildlife Area in Douglas County. I hiked four miles in, set up camp, and just enjoyed the most wonderful sunset I've seen in years.
At night, the coyotes on the surrounding hills serenaded me.
This is a house I've photographed several times before. It's not in the Wildlife Area, but is something I pass on the way there. Each time, I think it looks more dilapidated than the last time, but when I look at my first photos of it, the place is basically unchanged. I guess I yern for entropy.
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'As the Price'
Camera: Ensign Ful-Vue
Film: Kodak Tmax 100; 11/1996
Process: HC-110; 1+100; 60min
Douglas County, Washington
September 2021
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
Quite a number of the buildings are still hotels although the majority have been converted or rebuilt as flats and apartments. They do have rather nice views across the bay. What you can't really see here is the work done or being done to basically rebuild the promenade. Its been in the process for years and is still not totally finished!
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
I have shot in Douglas County, Washington for a decade now, and I'm still exploring the place. This past weekend was another exploration. I shot several houses I've never seen before, and found this mass of wrecked cars in a little ravine.
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'Splintered Light'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Fomapan 400
Process: Foma Retro Special; 6min
Douglas County, Washington
March 2021
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
Edmonton Becomes First in Canada to Test Facial Recognition Body Cameras in Police Pilot Program:
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Matthew 20:16 “So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”
Douglas was a small settlement until the 18th century when it grew as the key port between Man and the mainland (Liverpool).
It has a few landmarks, notably the Bee Gees and Norman Wisdom, along with a Steam railway, and electric tram and a horse-drawn tram.
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.
“Leaked report claims B.C. timber harvest is vastly overestimated”
“An undisclosed report obtained by BIV estimates the province is likely approving twice as much logging than can be sustainably harvested”
I’m not shocked, because our globalist puppet-politicians are constantly sabotaging everything they can. Plus, the last election in British Columbia was a straight up scam! The globalists blatantly installed their puppet.
They log large tracts of land, which in turn causes flooding in the spring. The snow melts fast, because it’s exposed to the sun. That’s why places like Grand Forks get flooded. This causes the forest to dry out, and tinder-dry forests like to burn. Then the government and media scream climate change, climate emergency!
The hidden impacts of clear-cut logging, revealed:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjG8oIqgLVU
Job 28:22 “Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a report about it with our ears.’”
This is a comp that Darren pointed out to me, "Thanks Darren", this was a GREAT location. That is something that I enjoy about being out with another talented photographer, we all see different things which the other may not.
This was a great series of falls out in Tomas WV, one that I hope to get to again very soon.
**I will be offline (probably) all week due to a project happening at work. But I know how these things go...The supervisor FREAKS OUT about the deadline and spins in circles screaming about how much overtime we will need to work, but in the end it rarely requires as much. So when I get time I will BE FOR SURE catching up with everyone. I cannot wait to see everyones Autumnal images!!
“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.”
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.