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[Leigh]

Here's a few from my end. All on Ilford FP4+, expired by about a decade, rated at 100 and developed in Pyrocat.

Hi Koraks.

Marvelous gray scale in all of those. Great work.

- Leigh

[koraks]

Thanks Leigh, I hadn't shot much FP4+ before, but I really like it!

[jp]

Found me a new swamp. Water was low from lack of rain and so had some beautiful cracked mud. Except for one area where I sunk into the ground and literally lost my shoe and had to fish it out of the mud. Didn't have the proper boots with me.

Nikon F2, 15mm f/3.5 AI-S w/ orange filter, T-Max 100, FX-39:

Looks like a fun area to photograph. I bet it'd be a nice place to photograph in fog or at night for stars.

[Corran]

True! Gotta check if the gate is closed at night.

[DennisD]

Wonderful images, Scott, Koraks (especially the first two) and Bryan.

Here's one from a trip to Jackson, WY about a month ago.
It just appeared - as if out of nowhere !

[koraks]

Thanks Dennis, and the one you posted is impressive, gorgeous capture!

[Peter De Smidt]

That's an amazing shot, Dennis!

[scheinfluger_77]

Great photo, and "out of nowhere" is how those thunder heads appear in that country.

[DennisD]

Thank you, Koraks, Peter and Steve.

Your kind words are much appreciated !
As fast as the cloud appeared, it was gone just minutes later.

Here's different subject from the same trip.

I thought this shut down theater building had real character and a great "face" !
The sun was just rising behind the building and the front of the building was very dark.
I took a series of bracketed exposures and compiled them in Photomatix.

A good amount of follow up work in PS was necessary to get the image to this point. I'm happy with the result based on my original visualization.

The result is a bit unusual and flat looking, a bit eerie, due to the lack of good lighting on the facade. However, the marquee and the sky add interesting color.

Comments are welcome.

[Jim Jones]

This technique is often used with inappropriate surreal results, but with this subject in these conditions it is impressive.