Old Cars, Trucks and Motorcycles

[John Olsen]

The mighty Edsel surveys lesser (but still-mobile) vehicles below on the highway. A lot of people slow down and do a double-take, some stop and gawk, others like me spend a day there.

210 mm lens, Rollei infrared 4x5, scanned from Ilford print

[IMG]Edsel N4Bb LFF by John Olsen, on Flickr[/IMG]

[John Layton]

This is from awhile ago...a trip to calif. which included a visit to Bodie. I've recently enlarged this image to 30x40 (darkroom print) for my current exhibit in Rockland, Maine.

Data: Early Layton Prototype (Pre-L1/L45A), 210 Sironar-N, FP4 in PMK.
Edit: I used a 90mm 6.8 Grandagon for this image, not a 210! Sorry!

[consummate_fritterer]

This is from awhile ago...a trip to calif. which included a visit to Bodie. I've recently enlarged this image to 30x40 (darkroom print) for my current exhibit in Rockland, Maine.

Data: Early Layton Prototype (Pre-L1/L45A), 210 Sironar-N, FP4 in PMK.

I very much like the juxtaposition, John.

[John Olsen]

John L,

Your Bodie shot is great, but we have a Bodie too here in Washington. Try it next time you come west. I think this was a hotel:

[IMG]Bodie VI N10Ab LFF by John Olsen, on Flickr[/IMG]


150mm lens, Rollei infrared 4x5 film, scanned from Ilford print

[John Layton]

OOPS! Lens used for my Bodie image was a 90mm 6.8 Grandagon, NOT the 210. Sorry!

[John Olsen]

Again from the Idaho stone quarry, here's the truck that really got me excited. It's from neighboring Heron, MT and poses on top of a 40' pedestal of small rocks. For this exposure I shot from the base with a 360mm lens on Rollei infrared 4x5 film. By that time in the afternoon I had been in this 99 degree quarry for 6 hours and could barely stagger around; I consider myself lucky to get this. This is scanned from an Ilford print (Please disregard some smears in the sky that are from smears internal to my scanner.)

[IMG]Heron I N5Ab LFF by John Olsen, on Flickr[/IMG]

[John Olsen]

I dragged my Toyo halfway up the rock pile and tried also with the 150 mm lens, again on Rollei film. Then I staggered out, truly fried by the heat that day.

[IMG]Heron II N6Bb LFF by John Olsen, on Flickr[/IMG]

[Ben Calwell]

An old Pontiac detail. 4x5 Tri-X developed in HC110 (I forget the dilution).

[John Olsen]

An old Pontiac detail. 4x5 Tri-X developed in HC110 (I forget the dilution).

I like this unusual composition. It's graphically strong and appeals to the car buff too.

[Ben Calwell]

Thank you, John!