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[tgtaylor]

Water Temple, 2012 California



Located in the San Francisco Bay Area at Sunol, California, the temple was constructed in 1910 by the Spring Valley Water Company and modeled after the ancient Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, Italy from a design by Willis Polk. It was constructed atop the spot where three subterranean water sources converged: a pipe from the Arroyo de la Laguna, Alameda Creek, through the Sunol infiltration galleries, and a 30-inch pipeline from the artesian well field of Pleasanton, California.

The inscription reads: "I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry lands springs of water. [Isaiah 41:18b] The streams whereof shall make glad the city. [Psalms 46:4] S.V.W.C. MCMX [Spring Valley Water Company 1910]"

Printed on 140 lb HP Fabriano Aristrico from a Kodak TXP negative.

Thomas

[mdm]

Carbon Transfer from 5x7 camera negative. On glossy pearlescent Hahnmule Brittania. Pigment is neutral black, matte, with violet tint. Actually works quite well and is very sharp, though the scan isnt.

[Jim Fitzgerald]

David, very nice. It is hard to scan some prints and have them look good. I can imagine the real print is something too see. Congrat's.

[D. Bryant]

Carbon Transfer from 5x7 camera negative. On glossy pearlescent Hahnmule Brittania. Pigment is neutral black, matte, with violet tint. Actually works quite well and is very sharp, though the scan isnt.

Nice work David!

Don Bryant

[mdm]

Slightly dodgy but pleasant to look at anyway. If I like theese little ones I tape them into a cheap 8x10 frame with a 5x7 mat and look at them for a while. Too many prints of mine have been banished to a box before I really appreciated them. Soon I will be inflicting 11x14s from xray film on you all, along with the digital negative ones too. I decided to make the comparison first hand, because the costs stack up ok.

[Leigh]

Water Temple, 2012 California

Very nice shot, Thomas. Great job taming the high contrast range.

- Leigh

[csant]

David, it is a beautiful print and deserves more than "just" a box!

[csant]

One persimmon. Platinum print on Kozo paper.

Larger image and some more info over at Flickr.

[tgtaylor]

Very nice shot, Thomas. Great job taming the high contrast range.

- Leigh

Thanks Leigh. I'm going to reshoot this in Infrared this coming week. The green grass and white columns should contrast nicely with a dark sky.

BTW, I forgot to mention that one-half of San Francisco's daily water supply passed through this temple prior to the completion of Hetch Hetch and the aquaduct.

Thomas

[mdm]

Carbon transfer from 5x7 delta 100 negative. Printed very similar to my scan.