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Here’s a September snow line that has stopped me in my tracks – I’m unable to hike any higher here w/o snow shoes, but I’m only at 9,000 feet. Out there is southwest Montana.

Any day now, this...

Custer State Park is beautiful indeed.

Some dramatic terrain, like the Badlands.

Google is my friend: “Rocky Raccoon” is the Beatles song.

The Beatles sang about the Black Hills, one of their late albums I think.

Something about a Romantic betrayal, the good guy doesn't get the girl back.

My memory of the 1960’s is too hazy to...

I’ve been working with a refurbished 4990 for many years now, and when it dies, I will get another if I see one appear on the Epson Clearance site. However, it’s rare they pop up there anymore. You...

The Black Hills are one of my favorite remote areas to explore by vehicle – or by foot.

The forest roads (improved & unimproved) are so many, and so endless, they diffuse driving visitors over a...

How about an image sub-forum that forbids image posting, but requires detailed descriptions of them instead?

Sure, it might take 1,000 words or more, but the effort would improve our writing (and...

You mean any page link (above) takes you to page 1?

The individual links seem to be working on my old Dell w/ IE8, including the previous and next arrows, plus the links titled “First” and “Last”...

You must mean the farmer’s daughter.

She’ll show up eventually.

Maybe riding a tractor, a piece of straw in her mouth.

If we’re talking North Dakota, that means I-94 and I-29.

Scenes from N.D. must be at least 50 miles from the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.

So most of...

Right when this thread is born, its subject is about to die.

According to an article in today’s Washington Post, the population in Rural America is declining – for the first time ever.

Glad we...

I’ve been reading and re-reading this sentence, and all it does is make me curious about what’s happening on rung #29 of the art world ladder these days.

Maybe that’s what they meant – the student painted 17 houses in one day.

:D

17 paintings in one day – I’d say that’s working pretty hard!

According to my notes, the most LF shots I’ve taken in one day (at separate tripod locations) is seven.

I have only myself to blame...

Some people excel at preventing problems (Doremus), others are good at figuring out what’s causing them (Thomas).

If you’re an LF photographer, both skills are great to have!

Neither skill...

David, last time I was in a bog, I lost a slip-on rubber cover for a tripod foot. Got sucked into the deep. It’s probably down in your part of the world by now, so let me know if you see it. Up here,...

One of those tents would be a nice, temporary shelter from the Michigan mosquitoes!

Me, I use an Adirondack-style windbreaker.

For example, I tighten its waist (w/ cinch cord) around the camera...

Hurrah! That opens up the New World for images here.

From Canada ... all the way down to the Strait of Magellan.

Yes, I’m loving this thread. ;^)

Well, if breakfast platters are more profound or more abstract in b/w (and they may very well be), then “Green Eggs and Ham” has us all fooled, children and adults alike. :(

Thanks for the attentive & conscientious work, and we’ll be looking forward to hearing about your ongoing professional work and artist-in-residence experiences.

Schizophrenics commonly report a connection between reality, profundity, and color.

Most people, of course, mourn their lack common sense.

Paleolithic cave painters lacked the most common sense...

Drug users (I mean the likes of William James, Aldous Huxley, John Lennon, etc.) acclaim color as profound, worthy of more attention and more real than masses, positions, dimensions.

To be sure, I...

I agree – the images of wooden building blocks, and how front & back movements change their appearance, is a fun touch. The building blocks will appeal to people who never did well in school and...

Nightmare in Yosemite.

At least your film survived for another trip.

Hope you brought your sketch pad.

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I once wrote #6 in my field notes for two successive shots – not #6 then #7.
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Several threads are, “The kids are grown, they’re gone, I’m back.”

Good luck right up to that moment, Matus.

We’ll be expecting you.

So many rural images have fences in them.

In rural America, good fences make good neighbors.

This old fence needs patching or tempers will flare.

Tachi 4x5
Schneider 150mm/9 g-claron...

Quick update – that makes five votes for 300, three votes for 240 (all for the Fuji A), and no votes for the 210. Give or take.

My recommendation remains go shoot some more, and let your two-lens...

My mother always said I was a quick learner.

When this actually happened to me, the numbers were a little easier to deal with than the “nightmare” in post #1. I exposed two sheets in a holder...

I think it would make a unique and entertaining thread topic – reasons to carry multiples of single focal lengths. And BTW, I’m just having some fun here, so please take it with a grain of salt.
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Just curious Leigh, how many of your focal lengths have multiples? Wait, I’ll check your profile...

Okay, your profile says you have “far too many lenses to list.”

Is it due to all the...

The “one-lens-is-sufficient-if-you-know-how-to-see” approach wins a lot of sympathy from me, but it’s not my only subjective experience in the field.

I have a 110-150-240 kit (for 4x5), and I...

I like this particular lens, too. More generally, I like the 240 focal length for tree details. And rock details. Of course, now that I think about it, this might be because I possess and use a 240....

Most of us have awakened from the following nightmare in a cold, heavy sweat.

Some of us (like me) have actually suffered the experience:

You bring 7 loaded film holders, all identical, to a...

Here’s an image to help – the ring underneath is the plastic (but high quality) regular ring; the one resting on top is the metal (aluminum) wide angle ring. I use both – the plastic ring for my 150...

My favorite rural roads are those that seem to come from nowhere, and go to nowhere, but take you where “hurry” is not part of the local language, and time is not of the essence.

This rural...

I got in before the price vault, too.

My brand new Tachi was $599 from Midwest Photo.

It came with a copal 0 board.

Scenes within 50 miles of the Interstate highway system will be reported to the moderators.

:D

That’s a great, practical tip for all who use their hands in Washington state – take your shots in N. Cascades NP before you go to the bakery in Twisp, not after.

The wider compendium of the WA version certainly makes life easier the wider your lenses are, and the greater your movements.

This becomes even more important when you use a filter holder. If you...

For illustration, here’s the shape of Lee’s wide-angle (non-slotted) version.

It’s very flexible and a joy to shape. ;^)

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Countless times have I discovered better light that came right...

I’ll use my compendium shade even if I’m certain my final image will be good enough by using just my hand. Or my hat.

To do this, I have to fight a complacent voice inside my head that says, “Why...