your own favorite

[lostcoyote]

post you own image that is a personal favorite of yours and tell why...

[roteague]

This image was taken along the Murray River near the town of Echuca in Victoria. The Murray River, is Australia's second-longest river.

I'm not sure why I like this image as much as I do, other than it represents a part of the world that fascinates me - Australia. I remember parking here, watching the sun go down on the Murray and listening to the sound of birds in the night air.

[eddie]

this is Pete,

i was helping to pour a cement foundation at his house. he offered to pay me. i told him no, but i asked him to stand for a portrait with my old Korona view 4x5. Pete is about 80 years old and the korona is pre 39. both about the same vintage!

i was using an old brass projection lens marked 12 ef. no aperture and no shutter. i shot 4 sheets. this is the best one. it was my first attempt at LF portraiture. printed on kodak RC paper. hard act to follow!

Jim Galli and others were the motivational factor behind trying to shoot LF ports. thanks all!

i won second place at a print competition with this photo. first ever award for any of my photography!

thanks

eddie

[Vaughn]

Special day, special place. Two huge trees rising up and out of the heart of the Emerald Creek drainage in Redwood National Park. Yet there is nothing in the image to give them their true scale.

Scanned platinum/palladium print.

Vaughn

[Don Sparks]

I took this about ten years ago in Byrson City, NC. I kind of made a project for five months or so taking pictures of this little steam engine using a 4x5 camera. I became friends with the engineers and rode in the engine several times....had some really good times. This is one of my favorite shots.

[Rory_5244]

I can never tell whether anything will come out when I go for a night shot. This one was about an hour on 8x10 during a full moon obscured by the moving clouds. I shielded the camera from the high winds with an umbrella, while some people around me at night walked through the frame with fishing rods (not visible here, of course). An illuminated boat also left a track along the horizon.

[Jorge Gasteazoro]

Here is mine.

[Alan Davenport]

This is a personal favorite because it contained an Easter egg: I saw the light rays from the rising sun just after I had made an exposure in a different direction, so I spun the camera, took a meter reading and took this shot in a total of about 15 seconds. I never saw the 3-point mule deer buck until after the film was processed.


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[lostcoyote]

thats' awesome alan, what a grand surprise
(gotta luv those unexpecteds)

[darr]

My son Thomas at 18 years-old

Arca Swiss 4x5, Cooke 945PS, Acros developed normally with DD-X