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Gaia and I were out and about on Halloween, trying in vain to catch a sunrise at one of Oregon’s spectacular, and on that day, packed with people viewpoints near Sandy. One of the bastards parked across the entrance to the parking lot at the viewpoint, and very few of the photographers were wearing masks, despite the worsening pandemic. We didn’t stop. Instead, we continued down into the Powell Valley, following the sun into the valley fog. When we made it to Lusted Road (my favorite road name in the area), the sun poked out of the mist, and I found a place to park, and took a few pictures, and flavored this one with the Orton Effect.
Camea: Nikon D810
Lens: 24-85mm Nikon-D
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After almost 24 years in a negative binder, I got this one out today. I wanted to see what I could do with it. The proof sheet looks bad. I thought that the picture had a large amount of lens flare at the top, so I never touched it. Today, I wanted to try something new. I scanned a light version and a dark version, and put them together as a HDR in Lightroom to see if I could eliminate enough of the flare to make a go of presenting it. When I looked at the results, I realized that it had just been a terrible proof sheet.
I then edited two versions: the HDR version and the darker version. I like the softness of the foggy area on the non-HDR version, so I scrapped the experiment, and when with the straight scan.
Camera: Hasselblad 500CM
Lens: 80mm Zeiss Planar
Film: Kodak Technical Pan developed in Kodak Technidol
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We drove into the Powell Valley today in search of fall colors. A fog was rising off of the Sandy River, and we entered it from above. I don’t like doing this, but I stopped the car in the road, and pointed the camera out the window and took this picture withough aiming. It worked better than I would have hoped.
Camera: Nikon D810
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I was out with a couple cameras yesterday, and ventured onto the Powell Valley to see if any pictures were forthcoming. It morning was overcast, and the sky was washed out, so I used some tree limbs to add color to the sky, and let the mossy rocks do the rest.
I normally don’t like to have structures encroaching into my nature pictures, but I like those old steel bridges, and this one is just green enough to not be an eye sore.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 28mm Zeiss Distagon ZF2
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I tried something different with my D810. I used a R72 filter that I used to use for infrared film to simulate infrared with my newest camera. The exposure was 10 seconds. There was slight breeze, so the trees aren't as sharp as I'd like, but it was otherwise a success.
Being no longer a denizen of the Columbia Gorge, and being on a shorter leash due to the Covid crisis, I am seeking out views closer to home. This is a short 20 minutes from home on the outer edge of Sandy, Oregon (names after the river you see on the bottom of the picture).
The Powell Valley is where the terrain takes a break from gaining elevation before climbing the western flank of Mt. Hood. It contains the afore-mentioned river, dodge park, lichen covered trees, and places where the sun rarely shines. Just ask the slugs.
Camera: Nikon D810 (with a R72 infrared filter)
Lens: Vintage 85mm Nikkor
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I photographed this freestanding fireplace back in the early 2000's, and was not very pleased with the results. I had a habit then of putting the subject smack dab in the the middle of the picture. I've learned a few things over the years, so I gave it a better treatment this time.
This fireplace is all that is left of a lodge that sat next to the Sandy River across from Dodge Park. The spray can crowd have obviously found it, unfortunately, but I took the picture anyway.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 28mm Zeiss Distagon ZF2
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Gaia and I were out to Sandy, Oregon this morning to catch a sunrise. It was a nice one. I had the deardorff along to do some 8x10 color slides. I may haveruined 3 sheets of film at $18.00 each. It was too dark to see the foreground when I set up, so I focused on the mountain. Later in the morning, I checked my focus before switching to black and white, and the foreground was out of focus. I may have overexposed them as well. I will still get them developed, but I am not holding out much hope. Anyway, the shy was impressive this morning, and at least I got some digital pictures that worked out.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 28mm Zeiss Distagon ZF2
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The mountain wasn't visible this time, but the view wasn't too bad. This is the Powell Valley, which is located east of Portland, Oregon. It boarders on both mount Hood and the Columbia Gorge, and is quite a bit larger than this picture shows.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 28mm Zeiss Distagon ZF2.
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I roamed around the Powell Valley near Portland for a few years, trying find the best places to take pictures. I always traveled with my dog, Shamus, who loved to go places, but hated to stand still while I took a picture. This area is difficult to photograph in the morning. It's a deep valley, and the sun takes a while to illuminate, so the golden colors of the sunrise are gone by the time it's light enough to get decent pictures. What I liked to capture was, and will be when I head that way again, the way the sun pierces the fog as it lifts.
Camera: Hasselblad 500CM.
Lens: 80mm Carl Zeiss.
Film: Agfa Ultra 50
Uploaded sharper version 6/24/18. Also removed the olive green cast.
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I’m testing a new film called Atimix-X by a company called Famous Format. It is supposed to be similar to Kadak’s beloved Panatomic-X, which, like all great Kodak films, was discontinued a long time ago. My first negatives are a mixed success. I like the tones, but the negative did not scan well. The cloud are disappointing. Another issue is that it’s not very sharp. That’s my fault. I didn’t have the rear standard of the camera tightened down. I forgot to do it. Naturally, when I slid the film holder in, it unfocused the camera a little. Oh, and the lens has an electronic shutter, and the battery had died. That gives it an automatic 1/30th second exposure. Luckily, that was close enough to the metered exposure.
Camera: Sinar Alpina 4x5
Lens: 210mm Schneider Convertable
Film: Famous Format Atomic-X developed in Kodak HC-110 dilution B.
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I took this one at the same location as the film version, only 24 years later. I like the film version better. I will have to try again on a foggy morning. The power plant was decommissioned about 15 years ago.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 70-210mm Nikon
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A view near Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia.
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View from the James Walker Robinson Memorial Scenic Overlook on northbound US-23 near Big Stone Gap. Powell Mountain is in the distance.
When picking our poison as to which trestle we wanted to shoot from, I found the first of the three along the Clinch Valley the most appealing with a more natural background and a small cabin being quite nice to frame. Our money shot was set to come from the drone, however we snagged this one as well- a nice, humble scene that would make any railfan wonder what it was like to live in the shadow of the N&W. Quite Literally as seen here.
The aerial shot we almost didn't get, we had launched the drone a bit too early and had it in for the battery change when the squeal of empty hoppers echoed through the valley in the distance. As the head end power came across the second trestle, we got the Mini 4 back in the air in just enough time to snag our shot looking throughout the Clinch Valley. One cannot make a truer statement then that the royal blue of the N&W is right at home.
Bobby reassured me that his old school in Appalachia had electricity.
The Speedwell Academy was a school in Appalachia's Powell Valley, Tennessee from 1827 to 1971. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Winnie and I went for a drive around the valley. This was taken about 30 seconds down the road from my house.
Made it to explore! Yay!
The loadout at Toms Creek is one of the busiest operations remaining on the Clinch Valley, arguably the life line to the route. I see some resemblance to the recently torn down Charlene loader here on the L&N's Montgomery Creek branch, though maybe that's a stretch.
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Being the parent tends to limit one's ability to get out on foggy mornings like this particular one back in 2000. I used to pack up the car with my Hasselblad and head to the Columbia Gorge, the Sandy River Valley, Mount Hood, or whatever location floated my fancy or didn't stretch my gas budget too thin. I don't catch many sunrises anymore. Not with my camera, at least. Maybe in a few years, when I can get off of the Graveyard shift at work, and when the teenager is sent safely off to college, that will change. For now, I'm reliving the past.
It was an early Fall morning, and I drove my Geo Metro off into the fog. I headed for the Sandy River Valley, a place that I was newly discovering at the time. The vistas are breathtaking. Parking near them is a problem. Even a Geo Metro won't hover in thin air, or park vertically on a cliff while I set up my tripod. Oncoming traffic can be an issue as well. Usually, I'm not in the mood for a long hike, due to limited time, and the fleeting nature of sunrises, so I try to park as close as I can to my subject as I can. I'm not very good at getting up a 3:00 AM to be in place to catch the first rays of the sun, either. I usually am frantically setting everything up as the clouds are turning purple, or orange. I wasn't too worried about that on this particular morning. The fog had rolled in, as fog is wont to do on Fall mornings, and I had plenty of time to set up. I was actually hoping that the fog would just get up and move on, maybe to Troutdale or Gresham, or maybe even SE Portland, where it could hide some of the graffiti, because behind the fog was a beautiful valley of golden trees, pastures and ridgeline known as the "devil's backbone." It's not what I would have called it, but I wasn't an early settler to the area. The fog wasn't budging, though. I took a few pictures, and headed back to get ready for work. The results are quite Zen.
Camera: Hasselblad 500 CM
Lens: 80mm Carl Zeiss
Film: Ilford PanF 50
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A wonderfully typical Pacific Northwest scene - the afternoon light was even more lovely than this camera could capture. Taken prior to landing in Portland, Oregon.
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My favorite freestanding fireplace in the Powell Valley, just east of Portland. It's near a place called Dodge Park, which means that it gets sun almost two days a year.
Camera: Hasselblad 500CM.
Lens: 80mm Zeiss Planar
Film: Ilford Pan-F Plus.
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It seems like a lifetime ago now, but it was only in the year 2000 that I drove my old Escort wagon into the Powell Valley just south of Portland, hoping to snag a sunrise. One of the problems I have always encountered with roadside photography has been that there is usually no place to pull over when the perfect image comes into view. This is one of the reasons I have bought increasingly smaller cars. I fit the Escort into a narrow shoulder along a twisty road above the valley and ran to this spot where I metered as quickly as I could, seeing that the sunlight was quickly turning white instead of the intense golden that it had been.
Camera: Hasselblad 500 CM
Lens: 80mm Carl Zeiss
Film: Kodak E100SW.
Replaced 3/2/21 with a better edit.
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I roamed around the Powell Valley near Portland for a few years, trying find the best places to take pictures. I always traveled with my dog, Shamus, who loved to go places, but hated to stand still while I took a picture. This area is difficult to photograph in the morning. It's a deep valley, and the sun takes a while to illuminate, and the golden colors of the sunrise are gone by the time it's light enough to get decent pictures. What I liked to capture was, and will be when I head that way again, the way the sun pierces the fog as it lifts.
Camera: Hasselblad 500CM.
Lens: 80mm Carl Zeiss.
Film: Agfa Ultra 50
Uploaded sharper version 6/24/18.
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NS 815 leaves the Clinch Valley district and diverges into Coeburn with empties for Toms Creek on uo the holler.
The forest wore a golden gown every fall in the hills of Pennsylvania where I grew up, but here in the Pacific Northwest, evergreens hold sway. However, while travelling through the Powell Valley just south of Portland, I saw this line of trees in full autumn regalia.
This photo, by the way, is the very first color photograph I printed in my darkroom. I used Fotospeed RA4 room temp formula.
Re-scanned and re-edited for the web 1/7/17. This is how this picture was meant to look. The version I had up before was awful.
Camera: Pentax 67,
Lens: 90mm Pentax,
Film: Fuji NPC 160
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It's not a particularly picturesque sight, but it is history.
The Speedwell Academy of Powell Valley, Appalachia is on the right. A modernized Baptist church is on the left, and the boys' and girls' outhouses are at the forefront of the photo.
Although he had no children of his own, Mr. George Shutter in 1827 contributed his slaves to build the school and a trust fund to establish and keep the school going. The Powell Valley Male Academy originally was housed here in a log cabin. The boys could pay for their schooling by working on the farm.
During the Civil War, Confederate General Felix Zolicoffer had his headquarters here.
As the community and school grew, the building would eventually become brick and the school co-ed (hence, the boys' and girls' outhouses). The Academy shuttered its doors in 1970 when the school district closed Powell Valley's smaller schools and bussed children into its larger schools.
Read the history of the Speedwell Academy here. Press "L" to enlarge the photo and more clearly see the boys' and girls' signs on the outhouse doors.
Uploaded a sharper version 6/18/20.
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It's not my normal subject matter, but this oddly named road on an idilic summer morning may provide some warmth on the chilly days coming up as the fall approaches. Lusted Road (yes, that's its name) winds down into the Powell Valley just east of Portland. I took this picture as a practice for doing front and back tilts on my Sinar.
Camera: Sinar Alpina 4x5.
Lens: 150mm Fujinon with a yellow filter.
Film: Efke PL 25 developed in Kodak HC110
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