post your trees!

[zsolt]

I love the scaly bark of Ponderosa Pines. :)

I was very close to the trunk w/ generous bellows extension.

I think I was near 1:2 – I added a stop for bellows comp.

Tachi 4x5
Schneider 150mm/9 g-claron
Ilford HP5+ (in Kodak HC-110)
Epson 4990/Epson Scan

Really like it!its sortof relaxing in big:)

[Harley Goldman]

http://album.foto.ru/photos/or/353575/4223495.jpg

Crimea, Russia.
Anba Ikeda 4x5, Nikkor W150@22, Velvia100F

This is a beauty!!!!

[StoneNYC]

http://album.foto.ru/photos/or/353575/4223495.jpg

Crimea, Russia.
Anba Ikeda 4x5, Nikkor W150@22, Velvia100F

Impressive shadow detail. Really pleasant image!

[jp]

Fall color at Spruce Mountain, Rockport Maine. October 2015.
Aero Ektar lens, Speed graphic, 4x5 Kodak Ektar 100 film.



https://farm1.staticflickr.com/656/22819787429_cde062cbd1_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/ALvnLR)
img521 (https://flic.kr/p/ALvnLR) by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

[gsinico]

[QUOTE=Arkasha_from_Russia;1289409]http://album.foto.ru/photos/or/353575/4223495.jpg

gorgeus!

[Robert A. Zeichner]

It's been awhile since I last posted an image, so here's one from my last trip to the Greek Isles.

[Shailendra]

Really like the feel of it in the "back",around the fence..its so dream-like..really nice!
may i ask the lens u used here?

Thanks for the kind words! I used a Nikkor 500mm T lens.

[Arkasha_from_Russia]

Thanks to all. :)

[Arkasha_from_Russia]

http://album.foto.ru/photos/or/353575/4226331.jpg
First snow in Tambov, Russia.
Anba Ikeda 4x5, Nikkor W150@22, Tmax100@80, xtol1+1

[Robert Langham]

Cottonwood in Canyon del Muerto, up in the junction past Blue Bull Cave. 5X7/450mm/FP4/Pyrocat. iphone of proof over the fixer tray. I think a little pre-fogging will bring those corners down. Looks like a touchy negative to print to just the right density/contrast though....straight into the sun. Used the slide to shade it.

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[tonyowen]

Another one from my recent shoot at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve
Chamonix 4x5 TMax 100 Rodinal 1:50

To my eyes this looks like an engraved drawing in a 19th century book - How do you achieve that?????

regards

Tony

[sdzsdz]

Scottland, Loch Tulla. Chamonix 045N2, 150mm Sironar W, Fuji Pro 160NS:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/588/22026118530_1c017a6e5d_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/zynBEj)Lonely tree (https://flic.kr/p/zynBEj) by Sebastian Dziuba (https://www.flickr.com/photos/88626385@N03/), auf Flickr

[Holdenrichards]

1897 Ak-sar-ben Camera - Eskofot Ultragon 305mm - f/45 - Arista Edu 100 - 8x10 Film - HC110 1+100 - Unaltered Negative Scan


https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1666/25593939950_33f4fa4fce_z_d.jpg

[Arkasha_from_Russia]

http://album.foto.ru/photos/or/353575/4229633.jpg
Crimea, Russia
2015
Anba Ikeda 4x5
Fujinon A240 @22
Tmax100
Xtol 1+1

[steveo]

Scottland, Loch Tulla. Chamonix 045N2, 150mm Sironar W, Fuji Pro 160NS:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/588/22026118530_1c017a6e5d_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/zynBEj)Lonely tree (https://flic.kr/p/zynBEj) by Sebastian Dziuba (https://www.flickr.com/photos/88626385@N03/), auf Flickr

I looked at this before reading the caption and thought that looks like home. :)

[Fangel]

Scottland, Loch Tulla. Chamonix 045N2, 150mm Sironar W, Fuji Pro 160NS:

It is magic! Very attractive!

[Shailendra]

http://album.foto.ru/photos/or/353575/4229633.jpg
Crimea, Russia
2015
Anba Ikeda 4x5
Fujinon A240 @22
Tmax100
Xtol 1+1

wow.

[Rick A]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/623/23360823072_ef4f7a324b_z_d.jpg

B&J 4x5/127 Ysarex
Fomapan 100/PMK Pyro
8x10 Multitone/LPD

[Simon B]

Broadham Green in Surrey, UK

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5655/23542212475_744dd8ef9f_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/BSkZz6)Broadham Green (https://flic.kr/p/BSkZz6) by Simon Bedwell (https://www.flickr.com/photos/chippings/), on Flickr

Travelwide 4x5, Fujinon 90mm f/8, 1/15s @ f/22
Adox CHS II 100

[StoneNYC]

I know I've posted this already a few times, but not everyone follows every thread.

Finally got around to scanning these!

14x17 Ektascan | 450mm @ f/9 | Rodinal | Lightroom Vignette magic added to cover up major light leak.

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14x17 Ektascan | 450mm @ f/22 | Rodinal | No Lightroom magic needed, fixed the leak, Few!

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And the video on how the camera was built!

http://youtu.be/NW4dhOJVfzk

[Holdenrichards]

http://cdn.ipernity.com/200/59/94/40535994.5f48519e.640.jpg

1941 Eastman View Commerical B - Agfa Repromaster 210mm - f/45 - Arista EDU 100 - 8x10 Film - HC 110 1+100 - Unaltered Negative Scan

[reedvalve]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/reedvalve/seen%20better%20days.jpg

Travelwide / 90mm Super Angulon / scanned HP5 negative / toned in PS

[jp]

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/608/23665429195_6c8f0ba34c_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/C4evBi)
img636 (https://flic.kr/p/C4evBi) by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr


In the woods of Conway MA (Western MA). 4x5 Speed graphic, soft focus 9" Gundlach Hyperion, Ilford FP4+ in pyrocat hd.

[Shailendra]

Yosemite Valley on Saturday morning.

Chamonix 4x5
Nikkor 500 T ED
TMax 100 Rodinal 1:50

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/585/23519720800_569d8e3d6f_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/BQmHzA)
Yosemite Valley (https://flic.kr/p/BQmHzA) by Shailendra Dhanoa (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jattitude/), on Flickr

[Paul Cunningham]

Yosemite Valley on Saturday morning.

Excellent.

[StoneNYC]

8x10 Portra100T | 300mm | Shot Autumn 2014, finally home processed today 2015, few! Loving finally having a JOBO!

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[Ironage]

Nice color work.

[takpro]

Nice.


Yosemite Valley on Saturday morning.

Chamonix 4x5
Nikkor 500 T ED
TMax 100 Rodinal 1:50

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/585/23519720800_569d8e3d6f_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/BQmHzA)
Yosemite Valley (https://flic.kr/p/BQmHzA) by Shailendra Dhanoa (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jattitude/), on Flickr

[QuinnImages]

Very nice!

[Bruno Gil]

Beautiful image
Nice job

[jp]

at Birch Point Beach state park, Owls Head Maine. December 2015. 4x5 speed graphic, 7.25" verito soft focus lens, Ilford FP4+ in pyrocat hdc



https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5719/23538798049_5c9ffbbe95_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/BS3uzF)
img717 (https://flic.kr/p/BS3uzF) by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

[jp]

In the woods of Conway MA (Western MA). 4x5 Speed graphic, soft focus 9" Gundlach Hyperion, Ilford FP4+ in pyrocat hdc.

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5627/23950087745_4a5bd35576_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/CuosFk)
img713 (https://flic.kr/p/CuosFk) by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

[BoilerBasher]

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1487/23950731045_4a6f2b95c6_k.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/CurKUH)Emergence (https://flic.kr/p/CurKUH) by Alasdair Matthews (https://www.flickr.com/photos/127404614@N04/), on Flickr
Taken on Ilford Delta 100 with an MPP Micro Tehcnical Mk.VI with Schneider 90mm F8 Super Angulon

[thesilverfox]

-20C yesterday, delta100 4x5
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/mdarlow/img339_zpsacna3oyk.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mdarlow/media/img339_zpsacna3oyk.jpg.html)

[Shailendra]

Chamonix 4x5
Nikkor 500 T ED
TMax 100 Rodinal 1:50

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1681/24031401885_4d40629ddd_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/CBzdxg)
Yosemite Valley (https://flic.kr/p/CBzdxg) by Shailendra Dhanoa (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jattitude/), on Flickr

[Pali K]

Taken on my recently completed 11x14 camera. This was the 2nd photo I made with this camera.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1621/24055857142_c750da42ca_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/CDJyeC)

9x14 crop from 11x14 Negative (https://flic.kr/p/CDJyeC) by Pali K (https://www.flickr.com/photos/palikalsi/), on Flickr

Pali

[donkittle]

My first 'real' outing with a 4x5 camera. It was a drab, overcast day and even snowing a bit but I was anxious to start learning how to use this beautiful Wista 45DX.

I arrived at the scene only to find my Sekonic 558's battery was completely dead. Ended up finding and using an iPhone app to meter, but it did a fairly poor job (leaving me with shots about a stop or so underexposed. I think I may have over developed a bit too.

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Camera: Wista 45DX
Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Zenotar 135mm f.3.5
Film: Ilford FP4 Plus
Exposure: 1/5 sec, f11 at ISO 125
Developer: blazinal 1+100, 50 minutes at 23 degrees

Sakura Cherry Tree (https://flic.kr/p/BShfzo) on flickr by Don (https://www.flickr.com/photos/siderean/)

[Fangel]

-20C yesterday, delta100 4x5
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/mdarlow/img339_zpsacna3oyk.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mdarlow/media/img339_zpsacna3oyk.jpg.html)

Very beautiful ! Beautiful line and beautiful perspective !

[baro-nite]

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1581/24105102172_b9d28579ed_n.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/CJ5X4S)
Arca Swiss F-line 4x5
Caltar II-N 210 @ f/32
HP5+, DD-X, Epson v700 scan, PP in Affinity Photo

[thesilverfox]

Thanks,
Sometimes I go for a drive looking for a photo opp and find nothing inspiring, give up, drive home and find something close to the house. Just like this pic.

[jp]

Thanks,
Sometimes I go for a drive looking for a photo opp and find nothing inspiring, give up, drive home and find something close to the house. Just like this pic.

That's a great photo.

When I got for a drive, I see about half as much as compared to when I get to sit in the passenger seat and have someone else drive. I see even more walking. My most productive photo locations are within walking distance of my house. Some people like Jcoldslabs and KenLee don't even have to leave the house to get awesome photos, but I like to get out of the house.

[monotux]

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Chamonix 045n-2
210 mm
Kodak TXP
Adox Adonal
-8°C

[mike rosenlof]

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Effie Yeaw Nature Center, Carmichael, California
Canham 5x7. HP5, 240mm, LC-110. Incident meter reading.

[barnacle]

The sun was not totally friendly this weekend, and I ran out of lens circle, but still:


http://www.dnbprojects.co.uk/Chess%20valley/Chess%20Valley%20Trees%20s.jpeg

Neil

[Don Homewood]

An overcast day near Sacramento, CA:

http://www.donhomewoodphotography.com/Galleries/ForestsGrasslands/i-xVRmJg5/2/XL/davis-XL.jpg (http://www.donhomewoodphotography.com/Galleries/ForestsGrasslands/i-xVRmJg5/A)

[takpro]

Nice.


An overcast day near Sacramento, CA:

http://www.donhomewoodphotography.com/Galleries/ForestsGrasslands/i-xVRmJg5/2/XL/davis-XL.jpg (http://www.donhomewoodphotography.com/Galleries/ForestsGrasslands/i-xVRmJg5/A)

[Pali K]

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1451/24366111462_34b7db4be7_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/D89G33)

Trees [4x5 BW Film] (https://flic.kr/p/D89G33) by Pali K (https://www.flickr.com/photos/palikalsi/), on Flickr

[Arkasha_from_Russia]

Anba Ikeda/Nikkor SW90@16/Tmx100/Xtol 1+1
http://album.foto.ru/photos/or/353575/4269543.jpg

[Deval]

Anba Ikeda/Nikkor SW90@16/Tmx100/Xtol 1+1
http://album.foto.ru/photos/or/353575/4269543.jpg
That belongs on a wall. I'd put it up on mine in a second

[donkittle]

This was my first outing where I loaded and, later, processed B&W film. I've mostly been shooting paper negatives up until now. There is a pap neg of this tree in the appropriate sub-forum, it's the better of the two shots. The iPhone meter did a fair job on the scene. I believe I overexposed one stop over what the app said and got fair shadow detail. I have a spare battery for my 558 now :)

I scanned the film straight so I think it was slightly shifted in the holder. I think I need to tap my holders to settle the film before inserting.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1551/23541482504_b16148b710_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/BShfzo)

Sakura Cherry Tree (https://flic.kr/p/BShfzo) by Don Kittle (https://www.flickr.com/photos/siderean/), on Flickr

[Kevin J. Kolosky]

-20C yesterday, delta100 4x5
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/mdarlow/img339_zpsacna3oyk.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mdarlow/media/img339_zpsacna3oyk.jpg.html)

fertile ground. go back and shoot it when there isn't so much contrast.

[SergeiR]

8x10, S-K 300mm (convertible) with yellow-green filter, X-ray film

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1706/24364234340_f16e316331_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/D7Z52S)2016-01-27-0002www (https://flic.kr/p/D7Z52S) by Sergei Rodionov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sergeistudio/), on Flickr

[chassis]

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1451/24366111462_34b7db4be7_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/D89G33)

Trees [4x5 BW Film] (https://flic.kr/p/D89G33) by Pali K (https://www.flickr.com/photos/palikalsi/), on Flickr

Pali, very nice! Are these black walnut trees? The deeply furrowed bark is great.

[chassis]

This was my first outing where I loaded and, later, processed B&W film. I've mostly been shooting paper negatives up until now. There is a pap neg of this tree in the appropriate sub-forum, it's the better of the two shots. The iPhone meter did a fair job on the scene. I believe I overexposed one stop over what the app said and got fair shadow detail. I have a spare battery for my 558 now :)

I scanned the film straight so I think it was slightly shifted in the holder. I think I need to tap my holders to settle the film before inserting.


https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1551/23541482504_b16148b710_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/BShfzo)

Sakura Cherry Tree (https://flic.kr/p/BShfzo) by Don Kittle (https://www.flickr.com/photos/siderean/), on Flickr

Don, great metasequoia. A park near my house has a few of these trees, they are great photographic subjects.

[Pali K]

Pali, very nice! Are these black walnut trees? The deeply furrowed bark is great.

Thank you chassis and I believe you are correct. There are a good number of black walnut trees in the park but it's hard to tell for sure given the winter season. The bark certainly looks like it though.

Pali

[chassis]

Pali if you are in that area again, take a look around the trees. There often will be walnut shells strewn about in winter. In spring and summer the tree is easy to identify by its multiply compound leaves and large fragrant fruit (nuts in husks).

[Robert Langham]

Proofing old negs. Early 80s roadside trees. 5X7 TX in HC110.

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[Robert Langham]

Cedar and Shadow, 2016.

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[Robert Langham]

Bits and pieces in a Smith County Field. 210mm Symar and TX/HC110.

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[Rael]

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3865/15076108649_212fb2accc_b.jpg
Crown Graphic, FP4+ developed in Ilfasol 3

[Brian K]

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[jp]

Snowy tree Owls Head Maine. February 2016. 4x5 speed graphic, 7.25" Verito soft focus lens, Ilford FP4+ in pyrocat hdc.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1709/24513480669_d40215e617_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/DmaZLr)
img797 (https://flic.kr/p/DmaZLr)
by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

[sly]

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Brian, that's brilliant! I encourage others to click on your thumbnail for a proper view.

[NedL]

Thanks for the prompt, sly! That's a great photo Brian.

[Brian K]

Thanks Sly and Ned.


Brian, that's brilliant! I encourage others to click on your thumbnail for a proper view.

[Robert Langham]

Landscape photography in the East is like shooting room interiors. No horizon line, no vanishing point, usually something overhead. Very different than handling space in the West.

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More walking and looking at shadows. I'm up on my 4-runner with a 120mm Super Angulon. iphone of the contact proof off the glass sheet over the fixer tray.

[Philippe Grunchec]

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Pt/Pd print on Japanese paper (Tosa-shi). 18x24 cm in camera negative.

[Robert Langham]

4X5 neg out of the unproofed boxes....that had a proof. Must have liked it 30 years ago. Sweetgum in rose field in Smith County, Texas.

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[purple57]

from a couple of days ago; 4x5 210mm, hp5146393

[Sirius Glass]

Welcome to Large Format Photography Forum

[purple57]

thanks! interesting place.

[mycatkins]

Hello, I just got here, thought i'd drop in some trees :)
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1610/24301881925_01724f07ea_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/D2tuQe)Autumn road (https://flic.kr/p/D2tuQe) by Mike Atkins (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigmikeyeah/), on Flickr
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5716/22207018723_88a1eb59c9_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/zQmLZa)img005 (https://flic.kr/p/zQmLZa) by Mike Atkins (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigmikeyeah/), on Flickr
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/666/22408582517_bd1a7c808c_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/A9aQSZ)img002 (https://flic.kr/p/A9aQSZ) by Mike Atkins (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigmikeyeah/), on Flickr

[Rael]

Hello, I just got here, thought i'd drop in some trees :) What film? Camera?

[mathieu Bauwens]

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1623/24866063941_93623f14ce_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/DTk5un)arbre-à-clou_0002 (https://flic.kr/p/DTk5un) by Mathieu Bauwens (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mathieubauwens/), sur Flickr

KodAK 8X10
Fuji 300mm
Bergger Pancro 400

[mycatkins]

First image M.P.P. 150mm 5.6 portra 400 at f8.0 3 seconds
Second image Horseman 250mm 5.6 Schneider lens Fuji Provia 100 F5.6 1/60
Third image M.P.P 150mm 5.6 Provia 100 not sure on the settings for this one

[purple57]

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4x5, 210/6.1 (xenar) hp5

[JMO]

As one who studied ornamental horticulture as an undergraduate, and worked in an apple orchard one summer during that period, I enjoy 'portraits' of trees like this one from April 2015. In this case I was lucky to also have a resident woodchuck stop to wonder what I was up to?

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Taken at Brightonwood Orchards in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, using my Linhof Master Technika Classic 4x5 with 180mm Sironar S lens at f32, and a CPOL filter. Velvia 50 film scanned with Epson V750 PRO.
Unfortunately, the image size and resolution of the attachment here does not come close to providing the level of detail in the 16x20in inkjet print from the scanned slide.

[Corran]

These trees are a getting drowned by flood waters.

Zeiss 15cm f/4.5 Tessar @f/5.6:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/littleriverapx-2904ss.jpg

[iml]

http://www.ianland.net/Hastings33/Images/img455.jpg

Chamonix 8x10, Schneider 240/5.6, Ilford FP4+, Pyrocat HD. It was blowing a gale when I took this (it's on the cliffs next to the sea near where I live), and the exposure is around 1 second. I knew I'd get some tree movement, which bothered me at the time, but in the end I quite liked the result anyway. Scanned from a contact print.

[Ramiro Elena]

It definitely makes the photo for me.

[pdh]

...

[kenj8246]

An old native pecan tree slowly dying.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1534/25129558986_dc10f553f2_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/EhByoo)Native Texas pecan tree (https://flic.kr/p/EhByoo) by Kenny Johnson (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bykenny/), on Flickr

[dave_whatever]

Few recent trees, all with Chamonix 045F1.


Delta 100 in DDX, 110mm SSXL:
http://www.daveparryphotography.co.uk/imgs/gallery/19792_103359603956ce382342767.jpg


Delta 100 in DDx, 110mm SSXL:
http://www.daveparryphotography.co.uk/imgs/gallery/19792_170655249456ce3815bfb90.jpg


Velvia, 240mm f/9 Fujinon:
http://www.daveparryphotography.co.uk/imgs/gallery/19792_113209435956ce37f4679d4.jpg

[scheinfluger_77]

Dave I particularly like the first one. How did you get the foliage on the forest floor so light?

[dave_whatever]

Dave I particularly like the first one. How did you get the foliage on the forest floor so light?

I was in the middle of summer so all the bracken and undergrowth was a lush green (see top right corner of the colour shot), so although I can't actually remember the filter I'm pretty sure I will have used a mid-green filter to lighten the foliage.

[Ken Lee]

http://www.kennethleegallery.com/images/forum/2016-02-01a.jpg
Massachusetts Woods, February 2016
Kodak 2D, 10 3/4 inch Apochromat Artar
5x7 HP5+, D-23

I'm not sure if I like this. Comments welcome.

[Maris Rusis]

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1551/25130473081_3992758cca_c.jpg
Giant Snow Gums, Charlotte Pass, Infrared.

Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.6cm X 24.4cm, from a 8x10 Efke IR820 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Wollensak 159mm f9.5 wide angle lens and a IR680 filter. Signed, stamped, and annotated verso.

[NedL]

That is absolutely gorgeous Maris.
Wish I could see the real print in person.

[scheinfluger_77]

You know Ken, it does have a strange asymmetry to it, and it does seem to demand your attention. But I kind of like it.

[scheinfluger_77]

Maris you always do seem to have prints with great tonal range on that paper. How do you like it? What are its strengths and shortcoming in your view?

[Maris Rusis]

That is absolutely gorgeous Maris.
Wish I could see the real print in person.
It's always difficult to compare a self-luminous monitor image with a reflective original. It largely depends on the illumination level used for the viewing. At 650 lux (bright room light) the original "Giant Snow Gums" held up next to my uncalibrated monitor matches it pretty closely. And thanks for the praise. It tempts me to lug the 8x10 camera up the side of a mountain all over again.

[Kevin J. Kolosky]

Mr. Lee

I don't know why, but that tree on the right not being straight for some reason disturbs me.
Other than that , its beautiful

[Maris Rusis]

Maris you always do seem to have prints with great tonal range on that paper. How do you like it? What are its strengths and shortcoming in your view?

Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB is a budget paper from Photowarehouse. But it does produce good blacks, mid tones, and whites except at the lowest contrast grade. It's just a question of doing the test strips, tweaking the exposure, dodging and burning as needed and ... voila! The low price means I can lavish more sheets per negative and really explore possibilities.

At US$76.95 a box of 100 8x10s you'd expect compromises and there are some:
Origin unknown. Country of manufacture should appear on packaging but doesn't.
Box is a bit flimsy and black plastic bag is just adequate.
Paper weight is closer to 1 1/2 weight than double weight.
Some batches have had rough edges. Blunt blade at the cutting and packing factory?
Lowest contrast grade won't deliver black.
Surface a bit dull compared to premium FB gloss papers.
White base is plain neutral, not warm or cool.
In a word "characterless" but at least it doesn't impose it's technical signature on subject matter. This I like.

[Lightbender]

Four Oaks
Roseville, CA

Its been a long time since I've done anything i 4x5.

147175

Shen Hao 4x5, Rodenstock Grandagon 65mm f4.5 (at f16). Ilford FP4, D76

[sdzsdz]

Very nice!


Four Oaks
Roseville, CA

Its been a long time since I've done anything i 4x5.

147175

Shen Hao 4x5, Rodenstock Grandagon 65mm f4.5 (at f16). Ilford FP4, D76

[kenj8246]

Independence TX live oaks. Chamonix 045 F1, Rodenstock Sironar f5.6 150mm lens, Portra 400.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1679/25196772462_6ef60e49b9_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Eoy3Bq)Springtime in Independence TX (https://flic.kr/p/Eoy3Bq) by Kenny Johnson (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bykenny/), on Flickr

[lee nadel]

hi gloucester ma. canham 8x10, bergger 200 pmk, kodak 305 ektar147262

[takpro]

Beautiful.



https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1551/25130473081_3992758cca_c.jpg
Giant Snow Gums, Charlotte Pass, Infrared.

Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.6cm X 24.4cm, from a 8x10 Efke IR820 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Wollensak 159mm f9.5 wide angle lens and a IR680 filter. Signed, stamped, and annotated verso.

[takpro]

I like this.



http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/2016-02-01a.jpg
Massachusetts Woods, February 2016
Kodak 2D, 10 3/4 inch Apochromat Artar
5x7 HP5+, D-23

I'm not sure if I like this. Comments welcome.

[jp]

http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/2016-02-01a.jpg
Massachusetts Woods, February 2016
Kodak 2D, 10 3/4 inch Apochromat Artar
5x7 HP5+, D-23

I'm not sure if I like this. Comments welcome.

I mostly like it. Personally I'd pull the curve down a little (reduce gamma) so it would have richer deep tones without increasing contrast (look at it squinted). I know it's not usually your style, but it would make the shapes slightly stronger.

I'd ignore the concerns about the trees not being perfectly vertical. They are rarely that way in real life and it's a type-a fault to expect them that way in photos.

Warning: Mumbo Jumbo follows....

What I do see I really like about this is you are starting to portray the correspondence between the trees. Not written words of course (they'd use vellum not paper if they did), but a visual relationship, in this case from their similarity and position. I think this can be built upon with more photos. There is a duality between the path and the arrangement of trees. Some would say the trees composition show the path, others would say the photo shows the S-path with trees along it.

I think it's conspicuously missing from most landscape photos (and is not necessary for grand landscapes, but useful for intimate landscapes) We ascribe communicative metaphor and compare their relationship without even thinking about it as consumers or viewers... Charlie Brown's tree versus the colorful aluminum trees... Matched trees standing close together we might think look like a couple or siblings. Trees with hanging moss we might think as old compared to a tree that doesn't. Twisted trees seem strong like rope; a cord of three strand is not easily broken type of thing. Tons of subconscious correspondence relationships we ascribe to trees as abstract objects if we spend enough time looking at them in person. We can do that with rocks and or anything else common in the woods too. Some people do it with flowers in a vase but I like the serendipity/discovery of the woods.

If we are conscious of it, we can show some of that with photos. Placement in the composition. Light. Shadows I consider a communication between the trees. Not actual of course, but visually shadows from one tree touches another tree, etc.. Fallen trees versus 100-year-their-youth small trees, similar trees creating tension between homogeneity and transcience/disorder. Trees are a rich and nearly universal subject. I've been playing on my own with some of these themes as I shoot trees this winter... https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/ (mostly medium format) and some from last year (8x10) https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/17141114966/in/album-72157632415274849/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/17009513055/in/album-72157632415274849/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/16822014270/in/album-72157632415274849/ Maybe this deserves a book chapter and not a forum post?

[orgraph]

147332

Ukraine. Wista SP, G-Claron 240/9 @ 16, Shanghai 100.

[purple57]

interesting shot Lee

[DaveF]

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1594/25244293996_206eee74f8_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/EsKB7d)Rowsley Sweet Chestnut Tree 2 (https://flic.kr/p/EsKB7d) by David Fearn (https://www.flickr.com/photos/davefearn/), on Flickr

Here goes...

My second ever large-format shot: please be gentle! A shot of a nice Sweet Chestnut Tree in Rowsley, Derbyshire (UK)

I can blame a mixture of Ben Horne, Alan Brock, Tim Parkin, Richard Childs, and David Ward, whose online presentations of the virtues of shooting large format finally convinced me to give it a go.

This is a cropped in because of vignetting caused by an overdose of front rise. The second shot, since for the first, where the composition was a little better, I miss-read the lightmeter, and only realized the error after I had packed up the shot.

Early lessons learned: read meter correctly, do not be hasty; vignetting here wasn't in fact an issue because the crop works; even when you think something major has gone wrong with a shot, get all the sheets processed so you can fully assess.

17/2/16, 11.30am

Linhof Technikardan S45
Nikkor SW75
Ilford Delta 100 (N+1)
1/4" f/32, 32mm front rise (i.e. too much) and 5mm of rear backward tilt. Processed by Peak Imaging.

The rear tilt was a tip from Jack Dykinga's book about how to compensate for wide lenses that vignette and don't have a centre-filter. Seemed to have worked OK (if understood and applied it correctly).

Since I don't yet have a film scanner, this was "scanned" with 4 frames shot onto lightbox with D800E and 60mm micro, stitched in CS6.

[NedL]

nice tree!

[Harley Goldman]

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1594/25244293996_206eee74f8_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/EsKB7d)Rowsley Sweet Chestnut Tree 2 (https://flic.kr/p/EsKB7d) by David Fearn (https://www.flickr.com/photos/davefearn/), on Flickr

Here goes...

My second ever large-format shot: please be gentle! A shot of a nice Sweet Chestnut Tree in Rowsley, Derbyshire (UK)

I can blame a mixture of Ben Horne, Alan Brock, Tim Parkin, Richard Childs, and David Ward, whose online presentations of the virtues of shooting large format finally convinced me to give it a go.

This is a cropped in because of vignetting caused by an overdose of front rise. The second shot, since for the first, where the composition was a little better, I miss-read the lightmeter, and only realized the error after I had packed up the shot.

Early lessons learned: read meter correctly, do not be hasty; vignetting here wasn't in fact an issue because the crop works; even when you think something major has gone wrong with a shot, get all the sheets processed so you can fully assess.

17/2/16, 11.30am

Linhof Technikardan S45
Nikkor SW75
Ilford Delta 100 (N+1)
1/4" f/32, 32mm front rise (i.e. too much) and 5mm of rear backward tilt. Processed by Peak Imaging.

The rear tilt was a tip from Jack Dykinga's book about how to compensate for wide lenses that vignette and don't have a centre-filter. Seemed to have worked OK (if understood and applied it correctly).

Since I don't yet have a film scanner, this was "scanned" with 4 frames shot onto lightbox with D800E and 60mm micro, stitched in CS6.

Very well done! I like it!

[takpro]

Nice.


https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1594/25244293996_206eee74f8_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/EsKB7d)Rowsley Sweet Chestnut Tree 2 (https://flic.kr/p/EsKB7d) by David Fearn (https://www.flickr.com/photos/davefearn/), on Flickr

Here goes...

My second ever large-format shot: please be gentle! A shot of a nice Sweet Chestnut Tree in Rowsley, Derbyshire (UK)

I can blame a mixture of Ben Horne, Alan Brock, Tim Parkin, Richard Childs, and David Ward, whose online presentations of the virtues of shooting large format finally convinced me to give it a go.

This is a cropped in because of vignetting caused by an overdose of front rise. The second shot, since for the first, where the composition was a little better, I miss-read the lightmeter, and only realized the error after I had packed up the shot.

Early lessons learned: read meter correctly, do not be hasty; vignetting here wasn't in fact an issue because the crop works; even when you think something major has gone wrong with a shot, get all the sheets processed so you can fully assess.

17/2/16, 11.30am

Linhof Technikardan S45
Nikkor SW75
Ilford Delta 100 (N+1)
1/4" f/32, 32mm front rise (i.e. too much) and 5mm of rear backward tilt. Processed by Peak Imaging.

The rear tilt was a tip from Jack Dykinga's book about how to compensate for wide lenses that vignette and don't have a centre-filter. Seemed to have worked OK (if understood and applied it correctly).

Since I don't yet have a film scanner, this was "scanned" with 4 frames shot onto lightbox with D800E and 60mm micro, stitched in CS6.

[Ken Lee]

I mostly like it. Personally I'd pull the curve down a little (reduce gamma) so it would have richer deep tones without increasing contrast (look at it squinted). I know it's not usually your style, but it would make the shapes slightly stronger.

I'd ignore the concerns about the trees not being perfectly vertical. They are rarely that way in real life and it's a type-a fault to expect them that way in photos.

Warning: Mumbo Jumbo follows....

What I do see I really like about this is you are starting to portray the correspondence between the trees. Not written words of course (they'd use vellum not paper if they did), but a visual relationship, in this case from their similarity and position. I think this can be built upon with more photos. There is a duality between the path and the arrangement of trees. Some would say the trees composition show the path, others would say the photo shows the S-path with trees along it.

I think it's conspicuously missing from most landscape photos (and is not necessary for grand landscapes, but useful for intimate landscapes) We ascribe communicative metaphor and compare their relationship without even thinking about it as consumers or viewers... Charlie Brown's tree versus the colorful aluminum trees... Matched trees standing close together we might think look like a couple or siblings. Trees with hanging moss we might think as old compared to a tree that doesn't. Twisted trees seem strong like rope; a cord of three strand is not easily broken type of thing. Tons of subconscious correspondence relationships we ascribe to trees as abstract objects if we spend enough time looking at them in person. We can do that with rocks and or anything else common in the woods too. Some people do it with flowers in a vase but I like the serendipity/discovery of the woods.

If we are conscious of it, we can show some of that with photos. Placement in the composition. Light. Shadows I consider a communication between the trees. Not actual of course, but visually shadows from one tree touches another tree, etc.. Fallen trees versus 100-year-their-youth small trees, similar trees creating tension between homogeneity and transcience/disorder. Trees are a rich and nearly universal subject. I've been playing on my own with some of these themes as I shoot trees this winter... https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/ (mostly medium format) and some from last year (8x10) https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/17141114966/in/album-72157632415274849/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/17009513055/in/album-72157632415274849/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/16822014270/in/album-72157632415274849/ Maybe this deserves a book chapter and not a forum post?

Thank you for your very insightful "Mumbo Jumbo". Now that you point it out, I see it.

And thanks to others for their comments and suggestions.

I hadn't made any photos in the woods for a long time, until we went shooting in December. Seeing your work inspired me to try again. You're to blame :rolleyes:

Here's a revised version.


http://www.kennethleegallery.com/images/forum/2016-02-01a2.jpg

[jp]

I'm looking at it on a cheap laptop today rather than my big photo editing monitor, but that revision looks nice Ken! Your area has good woods too.

These are scans from a recent visit to Beech Hill in Rockport ME. Most people take the scenic path through a blueberry field to the top of the hill. This is the woods path on the SE corner of the property. Great place to pick up ticks in the summer, but a nice place to visit in the winter with a variety of tree species and shadows and snow. 4x5 speed graphic, 9" Gundlach Hyperion soft focus lens, fp4+ in pyrocat hdc.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1466/25289398750_995b50791e_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/EwJMbo)
img859 (https://flic.kr/p/EwJMbo)
by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1481/25558905526_62f4cd2b88_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/EWy59W)
img863 (https://flic.kr/p/EWy59W)
by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

[scheinfluger_77]

Thank you for your very insightful "Mumbo Jumbo". Now that you point it out, I see it.

And thanks to others for their comments and suggestions.

I hadn't made any photos in the woods for a long time, until we went shooting in December. Seeing your work inspired me to try again. You're to blame :rolleyes:

Here's a revised version.

...

Subtle, but I like it.

[jp]

with 7.25" Verito:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1647/25534505591_1cfa125230_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/EUp1Up)
img864 (https://flic.kr/p/EUp1Up) by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

[donkittle]

This picture has a lot wrong with it technically but I really like the tree so I thought to share it. It's shot on paper within an hour of unpacking the camera. I was so excited to get out I forgot to preflash the paper so the negative is super contrasty. To help with the contrast, I tried contact printing for the first time but I don't have any glass large enough to cover 8x10 so the exposure was just lying over top of the undeveloped paper. Still, I kinda like how that gives me those soft focus edges and "light leaks".

Oh, and the bellows have a lot of sag which, I think, explains why the picture is partially occluded..

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1537/25646292666_45f94f88cc_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/F5gXiL)
Ent (https://flic.kr/p/F5gXiL) by Don Kittle (https://www.flickr.com/photos/siderean/), on Flickr

[Randy]

Here's a revised version.


http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/2016-02-01a2.jpgI really like it. I can almost see Scout and Jim walking along the path. Do you remember the f/stop?

[Courtlux]

148213148213148213148213Berlin Grunewald Linhof Master Technika Fuji 135 mm Fomapab 100

[Ken Lee]

I really like it. I can almost see Scout and Jim walking along the path. Do you remember the f/stop?

It was probably f/11.

[Kevin J. Kolosky]

I'm looking at it on a cheap laptop today rather than my big photo editing monitor, but that revision looks nice Ken! Your area has good woods too.

These are scans from a recent visit to Beech Hill in Rockport ME. Most people take the scenic path through a blueberry field to the top of the hill. This is the woods path on the SE corner of the property. Great place to pick up ticks in the summer, but a nice place to visit in the winter with a variety of tree species and shadows and snow. 4x5 speed graphic, 9" Gundlach Hyperion soft focus lens, fp4+ in pyrocat hdc.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1466/25289398750_995b50791e_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/EwJMbo)
img859 (https://flic.kr/p/EwJMbo)
by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1481/25558905526_62f4cd2b88_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/EWy59W)
img863 (https://flic.kr/p/EWy59W)
by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

To me the soft focus lens does nothing for this subject.

[reedvalve]

Taken last fall with very expired Velvia 5x7


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/reedvalve/alley%20pond%20pk%202016-11%20RVP50%20-%20WFE135.jpg (http://s4.photobucket.com/user/reedvalve/media/alley%20pond%20pk%202016-11%20RVP50%20-%20WFE135.jpg.html)

Alley Pond Park, NYC - 2016-11-15 - 2

Rittreck View | Wide Field Ektar 135mm | 5x7 RVP50 (expired ~1995 !)

[reedvalve]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/reedvalve/2015-11-21%20TW90%20HP5%20AlleyPond-1img035_1.jpg (http://s4.photobucket.com/user/reedvalve/media/2015-11-21%20TW90%20HP5%20AlleyPond-1img035_1.jpg.html)

Alley Pond Park, NYC - 2016-11-21 - 1

Travelwide | 90mm Super Angulon | HP5+

[Roger Thoms]

Nice job Jason, I have to say I've really been enjoying you SF forest work for sometime now. Bravo!

Roger

[jp]

Roger; thanks!


To me the soft focus lens does nothing for this subject.

Kevin, I do appreciate the honesty of your opinion. What we like is certainly subjective and I don't expect everyone to like my photos.
If I may discuss it, what do you see as the subject and what is SF better used for?

[Maris Rusis]

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1539/25572489682_a28901cd98_c.jpg
Massive Snow Gum, Charlotte Pass

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant III VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.5cm X 19.5cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8. Signed, titled, and stamped verso.

[Kevin J. Kolosky]

Roger; thanks!



Kevin, I do appreciate the honesty of your opinion. What we like is certainly subjective and I don't expect everyone to like my photos.
If I may discuss it, what do you see as the subject and what is SF better used for?

I see soft focus as an attempt to get away from what is really there. To hide something. It is used in portraiture to soften blemishes and age lines in skin, etc.
I do like the shapes in the photo though. The most interesting to me are where the tree trunks and bushes meet the snow. Those sort of cone like shapes are interesting. I don't see it as being anything other than a tree and snow though. I am not one who looks at a photo and then recites all of the words in a dictionary to say what it is, what it looks like, what it feels like, and all of that. The photograph itself tells me what I need to know. To me photography is about the thing photographed, which in this case are some trees in the snow.

[jp]

I see soft focus as an attempt to get away from what is really there. To hide something. It is used in portraiture to soften blemishes and age lines in skin, etc.
I do like the shapes in the photo though. The most interesting to me are where the tree trunks and bushes meet the snow. Those sort of cone like shapes are interesting. I don't see it as being anything other than a tree and snow though. I am not one who looks at a photo and then recites all of the words in a dictionary to say what it is, what it looks like, what it feels like, and all of that. The photograph itself tells me what I need to know. To me photography is about the thing photographed, which in this case are some trees in the snow.

Thanks! I differ in style/thought and think photography can be either a little bit or very much about the thing photographed on a wide scale. In nature photos, what the SF hides is detail that I might think be distracting or not needed. Someone else might use thin DOF and a sharp lens to accomplish that. Here's a sharper MF photo of the same scene: https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/25168023164/in/dateposted-public/ . Both are an abstract photo where it's less about the tree and more about shapes and light. I think the soft style can sometimes do a better job at being abstract but not always. I don't like too many words either.

[plaubel]

I see soft focus as an attempt to get away from what is really there. To hide something.

I believe that a SF lens will bring in something what is really there, maybe a beautyful light, a soft charactere..

In the opposite of hiding something, the soft lens here brings to me a wonderful softened snow in the first picture.

Ritchie

[peter schrager]

Alley pond park..my mom took me there as a baby!! Only 1000 years ago..nice pix too...glad to see the place is still there

[koraks]

http://www.koraks.nl/galleries/8x10_archives/WXRB810_160311_01.jpg

8x10 blue xray EI50, super angulon 165/8, parodinal ca. 1:150 10 minutes constant agitation, 4990 scan, split toning and local contrast enhancements in Photoshop

[Corran]

One of my favorite trees.

Wehman 8x10, 250mm f/4.7 Fujinar, Delta 100, FX-39

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/langdale-3048ss.jpg

[Maris Rusis]

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1611/25362353300_5d2eb638cf_c.jpg
Giant Trees, Snow Gum Grove

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant III VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.5cm X 19.5cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8 lens. Signed, titled, and stamped verso.

[scheinfluger_77]

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1611/25362353300_5d2eb638cf_c.jpg
Giant Trees, Snow Gum Grove

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant III VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.5cm X 19.5cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8 lens. Signed, titled, and stamped verso.

You have such neat looking trees down under

[Maris Rusis]

You have such neat looking trees down under
These are some of Australia's highest altitude trees. The one in the lower right corner has a trunk about 20 feet in circumference. It's lucky they all grow crooked or they would have been saw-logs a hundred years ago!

[orgraph]

Corran, Do you have soft at 4.5-5.6-8 of Zeiss 150/4.5?

[reedvalve]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/reedvalve/2004-11-07%20rap%20farm%20island%20copy.jpg (http://s4.photobucket.com/user/reedvalve/media/2004-11-07%20rap%20farm%20island%20copy.jpg.html)

Nikkor SW90 | desaturated Astia

[David Schaller]

Just out practicing. Wisner 4x5, Fuji 210, Acros @80, Pyrocat 8.5 minutes.

http://i.imgur.com/oKLppXr.jpg

[takpro]

Nice!!!



https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1611/25362353300_5d2eb638cf_c.jpg
Giant Trees, Snow Gum Grove

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant III VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.5cm X 19.5cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8 lens. Signed, titled, and stamped verso.

[takpro]

Beautiful.


Taken last fall with very expired Velvia 5x7


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/reedvalve/alley%20pond%20pk%202016-11%20RVP50%20-%20WFE135.jpg (http://s4.photobucket.com/user/reedvalve/media/alley%20pond%20pk%202016-11%20RVP50%20-%20WFE135.jpg.html)

Alley Pond Park, NYC - 2016-11-15 - 2

Rittreck View | Wide Field Ektar 135mm | 5x7 RVP50 (expired ~1995 !)

[takpro]

Nice.





http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/reedvalve/2015-11-21%20TW90%20HP5%20AlleyPond-1img035_1.jpg (http://s4.photobucket.com/user/reedvalve/media/2015-11-21%20TW90%20HP5%20AlleyPond-1img035_1.jpg.html)

Alley Pond Park, NYC - 2016-11-21 - 1

Travelwide | 90mm Super Angulon | HP5+

[Heroique]

A typical Fir-Hemlock forest to be harvested (again) in two or three decades.

The two flowers in the foreground help brighten the gloom.

150169

This is deep in the Olympic Nat'l Forest (which surrounds Olympic Nat'l Park, Wash. state). I've seen gigantic forests like this fall to the axe in a week or two. It's a heavy emotional loss when you grow attached to these quiet, "map-and-compass" areas over the years. Barring forest fires, I'll be able to enjoy this one into my sunset years.

Tachi 4x5
Schneider XL 110mm/5.6
T-Max 100 (in T-Max rs)
Epson 4990/Epson Scan

[Andrew O'Neill]

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/616/22584127040_f968fe0338_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/ApFy9G)Bamboo Forest & Pond (https://flic.kr/p/ApFy9G) by Andrew O'Neill (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62974341@N02/), on Flickr

[koraks]

Two wonderful images, Heroique and Andrew!

[johnmsanderson]

Andrew and Reedvalve -- great images -- used to spend a lot of time at Alley Pond Park in my youth...

Near Medina, New York, from the Highway Arbor (http://john-sanderson.com/highway-arbor/) series

http://john-sanderson.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IG_Trees-around-house.jpg

Camera : Arca Swiss F Line

Film: Kodak Ektar 100

Lens: Fujinon 300A

[reedvalve]

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/616/22584127040_f968fe0338_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/ApFy9G)Bamboo Forest & Pond (https://flic.kr/p/ApFy9G) by Andrew O'Neill (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62974341@N02/), on Flickr

wow, Andrew, that's lovely

[Andrew O'Neill]

Thanks, everyone. Here it is again, but a couple of days later. Snow and wind!

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/664/22218081824_857588f5f5_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/zRktEh)Bamboo Winter (https://flic.kr/p/zRktEh) by Andrew O'Neill (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62974341@N02/), on Flickr

[AlexGard]

Incredible.

[Deval]

Thanks, everyone. Here it is again, but a couple of days later. Snow and wind!

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/664/22218081824_857588f5f5_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/zRktEh)Bamboo Winter (https://flic.kr/p/zRktEh) by Andrew O'Neill (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62974341@N02/), on Flickr
What a pair of images

Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk

[Rory_5244]

Awesome pictures, Andrew! Can't beat bamboo.

[Andrew O'Neill]

Thank you, Alex, Deval, and Rory_5244. Bamboo is wonderful to work with. I like getting lost in there.

[Robclarke]

Thanks, everyone. Here it is again, but a couple of days later. Snow and wind!

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/664/22218081824_857588f5f5_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/zRktEh)Bamboo Winter (https://flic.kr/p/zRktEh) by Andrew O'Neill (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62974341@N02/), on Flickr

Excellent. You have found a great scene here.

[Andrew O'Neill]

Thanks, Rob. I spent a lot of time in this forest. Depending on the time of year, and weather conditions, it's always different.

[Andrew O'Neill]

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5684/24009594686_578bb0c762_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/CzDs25)Bamboo Sunrise (https://flic.kr/p/CzDs25) by Andrew O'Neill (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62974341@N02/), on Flickr

[jon.oman]

"Bamboo Sunrise". Very nice image Andrew!

[Andrew O'Neill]

TMY-2 8x10 Semi-stand in Pyrocat-HD


https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7208/26747503851_93fda09884_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/GKzX2v)Three Trees (https://flic.kr/p/GKzX2v) by Andrew O'Neill (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62974341@N02/), on Flickr

[HiHoSilver]

Andrew, I'd not seen your Bamboo Sunrise before. 'Lovely.

[Rory_5244]

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5684/24009594686_578bb0c762_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/CzDs25)Bamboo Sunrise (https://flic.kr/p/CzDs25) by Andrew O'Neill (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62974341@N02/), on Flickr

Uh, wow: love it!

[scheinfluger_77]

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5684/24009594686_578bb0c762_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/CzDs25)Bamboo Sunrise (https://flic.kr/p/CzDs25) by Andrew O'Neill (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62974341@N02/), on Flickr
Hey! It just occurs to me, this thread is for trees, not grass. :p

A really exceptional image in my view. Thanks for sharing it.

[Andrew O'Neill]

HiHoSilver, Thanks! I believe I posted it over at Apug a while back...
Thanks, Rory_5244!
Thank you, Steve! Yes, I would also classify bamboo as grass... or maybe even as a weed, since it grows like it.

[johnmsanderson]

Love the light streak on the trees!!


Interstate 86, Coopers Plains, New York from the Highway Arbor Series (http://john-sanderson.com/highway-arbor/)


Just a hint of color


http://john-sanderson.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IG_highwayarbor_cropped.jpg

[gogo120]

150972
4x5
210mm

[drew.saunders]

Some cypress trees at the JV Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in Moss Beach, CA (near Half Moon Bay).

https://c3.staticflickr.com/8/7494/27136484242_7ced1fcb86_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HkXzkY)
05-22-16-003 (https://flic.kr/p/HkXzkY) by Drew Saunders (https://www.flickr.com/photos/drew_saunders/), on Flickr
Ebony 45SU, 250mm/4.7 Fujinar, f16, 1/8. Ilford Delta 100 film.

https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7160/27136483822_c84a2c7f79_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HkXzdJ)
05-22-16-005 (https://flic.kr/p/HkXzdJ) by Drew Saunders (https://www.flickr.com/photos/drew_saunders/), on Flickr
Ebony 45SU, 300mm Fujinon-C, f22-1/3 (f/26), 1/8. Lee Orange #21 filter. Ilford Delta 100 film.

This is called a "rampike" (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rampike):

https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7724/27164602071_b47f436bd9_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HorFN8)
05-22-16-006 (https://flic.kr/p/HorFN8) by Drew Saunders (https://www.flickr.com/photos/drew_saunders/), on Flickr
Ebony 45SU, 250mm/4.7 Fujinar, f8, 1/30. Lee Orange #21 filter. Ilford Delta 100 film.

[Barry Kirsten]

Regrowth after fire. 8x10 contact on Gallery grade 2. FP4 negative developed in D-7 pyro-metol developer. My notes say #8 filter, but the sky looks like maybe #12. 10" Commercial Ektar at f/45.

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[Carl Hall]

Some cypress trees at the JV Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in Moss Beach, CA (near Half Moon Bay).

https://c3.staticflickr.com/8/7494/27136484242_7ced1fcb86_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HkXzkY)
05-22-16-003 (https://flic.kr/p/HkXzkY) by Drew Saunders (https://www.flickr.com/photos/drew_saunders/), on Flickr
Ebony 45SU, 250mm/4.7 Fujinar, f16, 1/8. Ilford Delta 100 film.

https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7160/27136483822_c84a2c7f79_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HkXzdJ)
05-22-16-005 (https://flic.kr/p/HkXzdJ) by Drew Saunders (https://www.flickr.com/photos/drew_saunders/), on Flickr
Ebony 45SU, 300mm Fujinon-C, f22-1/3 (f/26), 1/8. Lee Orange #21 filter. Ilford Delta 100 film.

This is called a "rampike" (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rampike):

https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7724/27164602071_b47f436bd9_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HorFN8)
05-22-16-006 (https://flic.kr/p/HorFN8) by Drew Saunders (https://www.flickr.com/photos/drew_saunders/), on Flickr
Ebony 45SU, 250mm/4.7 Fujinar, f8, 1/30. Lee Orange #21 filter. Ilford Delta 100 film.

Wow I love the first one of these, so much detail and interesting curves

[Two23]

Geddes, SD.

Chamonix 045n, 15cm Heliar in Compur dial, FP4.


Kent in SD

[drew.saunders]

Wow I love the first one of these, so much detail and interesting curves

Thanks!

[jp]

Near White Head on Monhegan Island. preanniversary 4x5 speed graphic, 9" Gundlach Hyperion lens. FP4+ in pyrocat hdc.



https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7257/27347064782_f503c7ec87_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HEyRAW)
img019 (https://flic.kr/p/HEyRAW) by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

[Barry Kirsten]

Red Gum against the light, early morning shot. Tmax 100 4x5 in D-7 pyro, #8 filter, 150mm convertible Symmar.

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[jp]

Found a film holder with a sheet of exposed film from last year... This is the ice pond freezing in late fall.. Seguinland Road, Georgetown Maine. Basically the other side of the road from where F Holland Day, Clarence White, and students worked. I think this pond is part of Reid state park now. I can see how they thought of this area as sort of primeval. It is incredibly wild and peaceful. 4x5 tmy2 in pyrocat hdc. Probably 7.25" verito lens.



https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7632/27468002491_8b0e4c9e23_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HRfGaR)
img062 (https://flic.kr/p/HRfGaR) by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Near White Head on Monhegan Island. preanniversary 4x5 speed graphic, 9" Gundlach Hyperion lens. FP4+ in pyrocat hdc.
Jason, love this one!



https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7257/27347064782_f503c7ec87_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HEyRAW)
img019 (https://flic.kr/p/HEyRAW) by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

[Gerald butler]

Trees are an important part of human life..I have numerous tree in my garden...Many useful product made from trees..
Thanks

[bobbotron]

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1551/25130473081_3992758cca_c.jpg
Giant Snow Gums, Charlotte Pass, Infrared.

Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.6cm X 24.4cm, from a 8x10 Efke IR820 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Wollensak 159mm f9.5 wide angle lens and a IR680 filter. Signed, stamped, and annotated verso.

Being new here, I'm looking back through this thread, this is a great shot, so interesting! I'm a sucker for IR photography too. Very interesting, confusing perspective. Are you selling prints?

[Maris Rusis]

Being new here, I'm looking back through this thread, this is a great shot, so interesting! I'm a sucker for IR photography too. Very interesting, confusing perspective. Are you selling prints?

Having reached an age and with my rep, Point Light Galley, closing over a year ago I've stepped out of the art-market and now make photographs purely as a personal indulgence. And that's a good thing too. Large format infrared is very chancy, rather expensive, and not really compatible with commercial imperatives. Besides which the factory that made Efke IR820 is closed and the film is no more. Google me for a vague profile of activities.

[FredrickSummers]

https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7464/27107238364_7c4071fe5e_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HinFyG)First IR Experiment (https://flic.kr/p/HinFyG) by Fredrick Summers (https://www.flickr.com/photos/136362021@N08/), on Flickr

My first experiment with IR film. Efkie IR820, I wish I could find more of it, only ~25 sheets of it left for me to play with :(

I know what to do better next time.

[takpro]

Love it, Nice work.


https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7464/27107238364_7c4071fe5e_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HinFyG)First IR Experiment (https://flic.kr/p/HinFyG) by Fredrick Summers (https://www.flickr.com/photos/136362021@N08/), on Flickr

My first experiment with IR film. Efkie IR820, I wish I could find more of it, only ~25 sheets of it left for me to play with :(

I know what to do better next time.

[Vaughn]

I have photographed this redwood a few times. This was the most recent time, but still 30 years ago. Can't find the negatives -- just these contact prints. I scanned the two 4x5 contact prints and made one image out of them in Photoshop -- pretty much the way I printed and mounted it with the earlier negatives (printed each half about 19" tall). I could not line the two halves all that well in Photoshop...Photoshop idiot, that I am.

The negatives were made with a Gowland PocketView 4x5 using a CaltarII-N 150mm/5.6 lens on TMax100. The contacts were printed on Portriga Rapid 111.

[Vaughn]

Here are direct scans (no adjustments made from my office scanner) of the two contact prints for my tree image. Thought it would be of interest.

[NightHeron]

Hello Vaughn,
Great shots!!! At first I didn't notice the person standing next to the base of the tree, but once I saw them I realized the enormity of the scale of this set of photos! Thank you for posting.

Best Regards,
NightHeron

[Vaughn]

Thanks! The person at the base is a friend, Jackie. My previous versions of this had me at the base. (the first version was "Tree and Me", the second one was "Tree and Me Too".) I have another negative with Jackie without clothes, but I do not like it as well. Photographed from above and with the light all coming from above, the upper portion of her breasts sort of out-shine everything else...and not in an attractive way.

But the person does give the sense of scale!

[NightHeron]

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Hello Vaughn,
I have been trying to stitch your files together to get the complete view. I couldn't get a photo stitching program called Hugin to work, but an old copy of Photoshop Elements 7 did manage to stitch the files together. I have no idea if it is stitched correctly as I think most panorama programs are expecting the image plane to rotate between photos rather than have the front element shift. I will also be interested to see if I've succeeded in attaching the stitched file to this post.

One of the things that I especially liked about the Mike Nichols' National Geographic redwood tree images is that he had 5 or 6 brightly clad tree climbers spread about the trees at roughly the same distance from the camera to show scale. I'm sure a few well placed nudes would do an even better job of communicating scale, if it could be done.

[Maris Rusis]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4064/5120014480_b2d52c5c87_b.jpg
Twin Snow Gums, Grace

Gelatin-silver photograph on Arista Edu Ultra FB VC photographic paper, image area 19.7cm X 24.5cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative. Camera was a Tachihara triple extension 8x10 field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8 lens. Signed, titled, and stamped verso.

[takpro]

Love it, like the texture and details.



https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4064/5120014480_b2d52c5c87_b.jpg
Twin Snow Gums, Grace

Gelatin-silver photograph on Arista Edu Ultra FB VC photographic paper, image area 19.7cm X 24.5cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative. Camera was a Tachihara triple extension 8x10 field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8 lens. Signed, titled, and stamped verso.

[Vaughn]

Maris, you have a wonderful way of filling up the space but still giving us room to move around in, and into, your image. The visual impact of the two trunks is almost over-the-top, aided by the 121mm lens. It is difficult to know for sure, but this seems to be a fine image to be mural-size -- an image that would gain by the experience...it would almost become a different image. I have a 4"x10" negative that has been enlarged/printed digitally to (approx.) 1 meter x 2 meter, vertical. At that scale, it is a different beast than my 4"x10" carbon print from the same negative, both work, but can not be easily compared.

NightHeron -- interesting stitch! But I think I will continue to show it as two distinct halves. I would like to return to this spot and photograph it again as two 4"x10" negatives...no cropping for the final image (final product would be a 4x20 platinum and/or carbon prints). A branch has grown more prominent, coming in from the left, it will break up the continous view of the trunk. I'll have to figure out the best focal length. My 150mm on 4x5 covered a little too much. A 300mm is my 'normal' lens and it will be too wide...perhaps a 16" would work -- I don't have one, but I am in no rush...and I do not think the tree is!

[Maris Rusis]

Thanks takpro and Vaughn. The 8x10 ground glass is a luxurious environment to fuss over composition and focus. And these 300 year old trees are very patient subjects.

[Whalen]

152291
Direct positive with significant bronzing
127mm Ektar, Burke and James View Camera.
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Here is it printed at 27.5"x22". Not sure why the first upload is soooo yellow. The print resembles the actual "negative" almost to a T.

[Peter Lewin]

This is a continuation of the thread about the 600-yr-old White Oak at the Presbyterian Church in Basking Ridge, NJ. The tree is dying, this year only a few branches have sprouted leaves, while the majority of branches are barren. A number of articles have been written about the tree, since it has already exceeded the expected lifespan for a White Oak. Anyway, having made photographs of the tree in 2007 when it was still in good health, I drove over to take pictures towards the end of its life. I have posted four images below. All are straight negative scans from the HP5+ negatives developed in PMK. The first is a single negative, the others are panoramas made from 2 negatives each, merged in photoshop. I made the pairs for printing in my darkroom as 11x14s, and trimming and dry mounting so that the end results will look like the PS merges.

I haven't decided which images I will print yet, so all comments are welcome.

https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7334/27784149500_a7727832d8_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Jkc2Em)baskingridgeoak2016-1 (https://flic.kr/p/Jkc2Em) by Peter Lewin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlewin/), on Flickr

https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7369/27987547391_3a6568b978_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/JDauLx)baskingridgeoak2016-2pano (https://flic.kr/p/JDauLx) by Peter Lewin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlewin/), on Flickr

https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7237/27962320822_b1011cab74_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/JAWcMG)baskingridgeoak2016-3pano (https://flic.kr/p/JAWcMG) by Peter Lewin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlewin/), on Flickr

https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7436/27962320452_3096a10220_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/JAWcFj)baskingridgeoak2016-4pano (https://flic.kr/p/JAWcFj) by Peter Lewin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlewin/), on Flickr

[mikl]

Probably sin of sins but I cropped it digitally after scan on Epson V800 I think the contrast may have been nudged a little bit but not much I am usually pretty subtle in Lightroom.
Michael

https://photos.smugmug.com/Jamieson-Skene-Wellington/i-rvdjtjR/0/XL/Skene%204x5%20pana%20crop-1-XL.jpg

[RSalles]

Miki,

Perfect composition for my eyes, don't move a dime neither left or right: it's just well balanced and well taken. I'm jealous, but happy.

Cheers,

[mikl]

Thanks RSalles, I shoot this tree every year and this is the first time with the 4x5, It is on Mount Skene at an elevation just under 1600 meters, not high in the scheme of the world but it is about as high as you get in Australia. Tree is a Snow Gum and has been burnt by bush fires but it is slowly re generating as you can see. Our trees mostly need fire for re birth.
Michael

[Maris Rusis]

mikl, that marvellous Snow Gum from Mount Skene inspires to put up a example from Charlotte Pass in New South Wales.


https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4128/5119448745_cb89c1ec4f_b.jpg
Wide Snow Gum

Gelatin-silver photograph on Arista edu Ultra FB VC photographic paper, image size 19.6cm X 24.7cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative. Camera was a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8 lens. This Snow Gum has grown in the shelter of the rock to avoid mountain storms. The trunk is 3 metres wide but only 1.5 metres tall.

[mikl]

Maris, beautiful. I often wonder if there is a more interesting tree to photograph. I have been in love with them for years.
Michael

[Pali K]

Spectacular as always Maris!

[jmontague]

Dawn in Eagles Nest Wilderness, Colorado. Burke & James 4x5, Ilford FP5+. Processed in HC-110 and printed on Ilford fiber based paper.152601


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[jmontague]

Make that HP5+.


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[mathieu Bauwens]

https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7636/27895874790_e6ff167e4e_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Jv4DGs)Scan-8x10_0006 (https://flic.kr/p/Jv4DGs) by Mathieu Bauwens (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mathieubauwens/), sur Flickr

Kodak 2D 8x10
Fuji 300mm f5,6
Bergger Pancro 400

[jp]

Monhegan Island Maine. May 2016. 4x5 speed graphic, 9" Gundlach Hyperion soft focus lens, FP4+ film in pyrocat hdc.



https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7443/27638406164_49992a6ccd_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/J7j4fd)
img112 (https://flic.kr/p/J7j4fd) by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

[Miskanarhi]

Last batch of 6 negatives had trees in two of them.

https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8818/27717063503_1372bb2364_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Jegcke)
Dead of the tree (https://flic.kr/p/Jegcke) by Miska Närhi (https://www.flickr.com/photos/16987567@N02/), on Flickr

https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8799/28254588801_6333914d0d_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/K3L9SM)
Forest from the trees (https://flic.kr/p/K3L9SM) by Miska Närhi (https://www.flickr.com/photos/16987567@N02/), on Flickr

Both with APO-Symmar 240mm on Delta100 and developed with Pyrocat HD in the same batch.

[Maris Rusis]

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1103/5120098672_c61501c4f1_b.jpg
Snow Gum skeleton

Gelatin-silver photograph on Arista Edu Ultra FB VC, image size 19.5cm X24.7cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative. Camera was a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8 lens. The tree has been blasted by years of ice storms and the wood is polished smooth and white.

[mono]

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1103/5120098672_c61501c4f1_b.jpg
snow gum skeleton

gelatin-silver photograph on arista edu ultra fb vc, image size 19.5cm x24.7cm, from a 8x10 fomapan 200 negative. Camera was a tachihara 810hd triple extension field view camera fitted with a schneider super angulon 121mm f8 lens. The tree has been blasted by years of ice storms and the wood is polished smooth and white.

great!

[HoodedOne]

Autumn colors.

Camera: Wanderlust Travelwide 4x5
Lens: SA 90 mm
Film: Velvia 100 (expired)
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5662/22479459243_68c047b96e_b.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/hoodedone-photos/22479459243/)2015-045043.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/hoodedone-photos/22479459243/) by HoodedOne (https://www.flickr.com/photos/hoodedone-photos/), on Flickr

[Toyo]

Last batch of 6 negatives had trees in two of them.

https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8818/27717063503_1372bb2364_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Jegcke)
Dead of the tree (https://flic.kr/p/Jegcke) by Miska Närhi (https://www.flickr.com/photos/16987567@N02/), on Flickr

https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8799/28254588801_6333914d0d_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/K3L9SM)


Forest from the trees (https://flic.kr/p/K3L9SM) by Miska Närhi (https://www.flickr.com/photos/16987567@N02/), on Flickr

Both with APO-Symmar 240mm on Delta100 and developed with Pyrocat HD in the same batch.

Oh, I do like these.
Forest from the trees is superb
T

[Miskanarhi]

Oh, I do like these.
Forest from the trees is superb
T

Thank you. Actually the "Forest from the trees" is a place I had to revisit as I have taken this same photo before but with a MF-camera and I wanted to make a larger print out of it.

[peter schrager]

Forest from the trees..nice work..

[zsolt]

Last batch of 6 negatives had trees in two of them.

https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8818/27717063503_1372bb2364_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Jegcke)
Dead of the tree (https://flic.kr/p/Jegcke) by Miska Närhi (https://www.flickr.com/photos/16987567@N02/), on Flickr

https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8799/28254588801_6333914d0d_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/K3L9SM)
Forest from the trees (https://flic.kr/p/K3L9SM) by Miska Närhi (https://www.flickr.com/photos/16987567@N02/), on Flickr

Both with APO-Symmar 240mm on Delta100 and developed with Pyrocat HD in the same batch.

Love it Miska!!both look really Good!Congrats!

[Mark Darragh]

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Snow gum woodland, Mount Howitt area, Alpine National Park, Victoria, Australia
Arca Swiss F Line Field 4x5, Schneider Super Symmar XL 80mm, f11 ½,¼ Second, Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 – rated 64; Hypercat 1:10:300 @ 20˚ C for 24 min, agitation for 1 minute then 10 sec every 6 min

[Chris7521]

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Snow gum woodland, Mount Howitt area, Alpine National Park, Victoria, Australia
Arca Swiss F Line Field 4x5, Schneider Super Symmar XL 80mm, f11 ½,¼ Second, Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 – rated 64; Hypercat 1:10:300 @ 20˚ C for 24 min, agitation for 1 minute then 10 sec every 6 min
Excellent shot. I like the mist in the background. Really adds to the look.

[BoilerBasher]

https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8750/28193965830_fb483bd43f_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/JXprM9)Fungus (https://flic.kr/p/JXprM9) by Alasdair Matthews (https://www.flickr.com/photos/127404614@N04/), on Flickr

Not sure if this is the right thread, but it does have a tree in it. Fungus on tree by the track to Shine Falls, Hawke's Bay New Zealand. Taken on 4x5" Ilford HP5 with MPP Micro Technical MK. VI and Schneider 90mm F8 Super Angulon. Developed in ID-11.

[mathomas]

https://c5.staticflickr.com/2/1456/26640820316_d301862aac_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/GAaaJd)
evergreen trunk (https://flic.kr/p/GAaaJd) by Mike Thomas (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mathomas/), on Flickr

Horseman 45FA
Fujinon-W 210mm f/5.6
Arista EDU Ultra 400 @ 250
Rodinal (Adonal) 1+50, 11m

[Rory_5244]

Lovely!


https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8896/28376421872_30ff32ede9_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/KewzAY)Sapphire Beach Headlands (https://flic.kr/p/KewzAY) by Darko Pozar (https://www.flickr.com/photos/138416763@N03/), on Flickr

Graflex Anniversary
Optar 90mm f6.5 lens
Ilford FP4

Coffs Harbour Sapphire Beach Headlands NSW

[jesse]

Lotus 5x7 Voigtlander Kollinear 15cm f12.5, Delta 100. D-76

http://forum.xitek.com/pics/201607/149/14934/14934_1469297423.jpg

[mathomas]

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Snow gum woodland, Mount Howitt area, Alpine National Park, Victoria, Australia
Arca Swiss F Line Field 4x5, Schneider Super Symmar XL 80mm, f11 ½,¼ Second, Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 – rated 64; Hypercat 1:10:300 @ 20˚ C for 24 min, agitation for 1 minute then 10 sec every 6 min

That is really atmospheric. Love it!

[mathomas]

https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8750/28193965830_fb483bd43f_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/JXprM9)Fungus (https://flic.kr/p/JXprM9) by Alasdair Matthews (https://www.flickr.com/photos/127404614@N04/), on Flickr

Not sure if this is the right thread, but it does have a tree in it. Fungus on tree by the track to Shine Falls, Hawke's Bay New Zealand. Taken on 4x5" Ilford HP5 with MPP Micro Technical MK. VI and Schneider 90mm F8 Super Angulon. Developed in ID-11.

Texture you can almost feel. Nice!

[koraks]

http://www.koraks.nl/galleries/8x10_archives/WB1671_XRG810_02.jpg

http://www.koraks.nl/galleries/8x10_archives/WB1671_XRG810_04.jpg

8x10" generic green xray, G-Claron 240/9. Exposed as EI 64, placing important shadows in zone IV (so arguably, I metered for EI 32).
Developed in Pyrocat HD with sodium carbonate (household soda) as alkali. Household soda is the decahydrate; Sandy King apparently listed 5 parts of a 20% solution of sodium carbonate monohydrate as a replacement of 1 part of a 75% solution of potassium carbonate. Doing the calculus, this means that a 2.3% solution of household soda (decahydrate) as the working strength developer should be equivalent to a Pyrocat x:1:100 dilution. I find that if I boost the alkali by another 20% (so 2.76% of household soda in the working solution) gives a nicer result (somewhat finer grain) - so effectively a x:1.2:100 dilution. It also approaches my results with a 0.15% solution of NaOH best, which I understand should be equivalent to the 'official' stock B at a x:1:100 ratio. For these negatives, I used a 2:3.6:300 and a 1:2.4:200 dilution respectively.

I find Pyrocat and Moersch Finol (also a staining developer) to be fantastic for x-ray, as others have also observed, and I think I'm going to stick to the combination of Pyrocat - green sensitive x-ray for 8x10.

Particularly the second one prints very nice as a Van Dyke brown. These are scans with minimal contrast adjustments (an ever so slight S-curve) and without burning or dodging.

[Chris7521]

Aero Ektar wide open
Delta 100 @200, D76
https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8875/28184084993_ae3c0075bf_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/JWwNxT)img503 (https://flic.kr/p/JWwNxT) by Chris Badessa (https://www.flickr.com/photos/-chris_b/), on Flickr

[Maris Rusis]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4107/5206272846_57041b4429_b.jpg
Mangroves, Wooli River
Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford Multigrade VC FB single weight photographic paper, image area 19.5cm x 24.4cm, from a Kodak Tri-X Pan Professional negative exposed in a Plaubel Profia 8x10 monorail view camera fitted with a Schneider Symmar 300mm f5.6 lens. Signed, titled, stamped verso.

[Michael Lloyd]

I haven't checked in here much lately. This entire page is Hole-E-Crap amazing. Wonderful images every one.

[Gary Sommer]

This is my tree, Oregon White Oak, in my side yard.

https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7732/28141814540_8dc19eb0f4_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/JSNa1Y)Gilkey Oak-7 (https://flic.kr/p/JSNa1Y) by gary2881 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/36419580@N06/), on Flickr

Korona 4x5, 6.5 inch Ilex Paragon f4.5, HP-5+, WD2D+.

[jesse]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4107/5206272846_57041b4429_b.jpg
Mangroves, Wooli River
Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford Multigrade VC FB single weight photographic paper, image area 19.5cm x 24.4cm, from a Kodak Tri-X Pan Professional negative exposed in a Plaubel Profia 8x10 monorail view camera fitted with a Schneider Symmar 300mm f5.6 lens. Signed, titled, stamped verso.

This is very nice!

[jesse]

Deardorff 8x10, Computar 305mm f9@f32, Lucky 100 @ISO50, D76 1:1, 8 mins

https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8897/28206218493_cd06ebc441_h.jpg

[Maris Rusis]

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5281/5269946859_50ec742002_b.jpg
Snow Gum View, number 9.
Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 VC FB, image area 24.7cm X 19.6cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8 lens.

[Pali K]

Maris,

Please let me know if you ever publish your photos in a book as I would love to have it. Absolutely love your work!

Pali

[D-tach]

Sunset Drunense Duinen - the Netherlands

http://Tomkeymeulen.zenfolio.com/img/s6/v135/p2021717561-5.jpg

Deardorff - Cooke PS945 - Fomapan 200 5x7 - Orange filter - XTOL

[FredrickSummers]

https://photos.smugmug.com/Galleries/Coastal/i-g5QW9fb/0/XL/3%20Palms%20into%20the%20Sun-XL.jpg (http://www.summersmountainphoto.com/Galleries/Coastal/i-g5QW9fb/A)

I have been sharing along various threads, don't know why I neglected this one, almost all my images have trees :)

Horseman 45HD / Fujinon 210W / Provia 100F

[Michael Lloyd]

I'm still working on this one. It's made from a digital negative. Platinum Palladium process.

Beckoning

http://wildlightimagingstudio.com/img/s/v-2/p1935032311-5.jpg

[Maris Rusis]

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5084/5284074765_a69775ac5c_b.jpg
Contorted Snow Gum, Mt Wheatley
Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 VC FB, image area 19.6cm X 24.7cm, from a Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD 8x10 field view camera with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8 lens.

[mathomas]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7348/27316250584_0f06bf0d6c_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HBQVBE)
big dry creek giant (https://flic.kr/p/HBQVBE) by Mike Thomas (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mathomas/), on Flickr

Chamonix 045F1
Fujinon-W 180mm f/5.6
Foma 400 @ 250
Rodinal 1+50, 9 minutes (72 degrees)

[Corran]

It's been almost 2 months since I shot LF due to moving and work, but I finally got back to it today.

Not the best weather for me but dang it I was determined to shoot.

Hiked a bit around a local lake. I had forgotten how much the kudzu had taken over in north GA.

Chamonix 45n1, 90mm f/8 Nikkor, FP4+, Rodinal 1:50:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/zwerner-3932ss.jpg

[JeRuFo]

Getting back in the groove of shooting too after the summer. So happy to get back to the control over the image LF gives.

Chamonix 045N-2, Nikkor-W 210mm, Fomapan 100 in Rodinal semi-stand for 90m.

https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8354/29140105231_05736e8d1a_o.jpg

[baro-nite]

JeRuFo, I love the depth and spacious feeling of this, also the balanced tones.

[Maris Rusis]

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5250/5284679858_0b147f5569_b.jpg

Snow Gum, number 31.
Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 VC FB, image area 24.7cm X 19.6cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8 lens.

This grand Snow Gum is about 20 feet in circumference at the base. Maybe a hundred years ago it suffered bark damage and an epicormic bud sprang into activity. This bud is now the tree size branch leaving the photograph in the upper left hand corner. The ancient tree survives, dead in parts, live in others, hopefully for a few more centuries.

[Michael Lloyd]

Seven Bridges Road

There's not a single bridge on the road that the old oak is hanging over but every time I drive under it I think of the song that the Eagles sang.

Chamonix 4x5. Rodenstock Apo-Sinar 210mm lens. Ilford HP5.

http://wildlightimagingstudio.com/img/s1/v46/p457307195-4.jpg

[JeRuFo]

JeRuFo, I love the depth and spacious feeling of this, also the balanced tones.

Thank you. I'm still undecided about the image, I was just enthused by seeing a nice negative after being out shooting again. I do quite like the composition, and although I usually don't shoot in the middle of the afternoon on a sunny day, I was happy I saw how the shadows could help with the composition. So all in all a positive start to the new year, but I'm still hoping for more.

[JeRuFo]

Seven Bridges Road

There's not a single bridge on the road that the old oak is hanging over but every time I drive under it I think of the song that the Eagles sang.

Chamonix 4x5. Rodenstock Apo-Sinar 210mm lens. Ilford HP5.




That's a great image, Michael. I'm particularly impressed with how well you get the mood across. It's all very gray, but still there are beautiful tones.

Jewan

[reedvalve]

The first real tree image taken on my new 8x10 ;)


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/reedvalve/Alley%20Pond%20tree%208x10-sm2_3.jpg (http://s4.photobucket.com/user/reedvalve/media/Alley%20Pond%20tree%208x10-sm2_3.jpg.html)

Alley Pond Park
G-Claron 240mm / HP5 / V700

[FredrickSummers]

https://photos.smugmug.com/Galleries/Infrared/i-mMnNJ4m/0/L/Parkway%20Tree%20IR-L.jpg (http://www.summersmountainphoto.com/Galleries/Infrared/i-mMnNJ4m/A)

Two very well photographed images on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Blowing Rock, NC. I grew up just around the corner from these two, so trying to come up with something different then what is all over of them.

Efkie IR820

[FredrickSummers]

How about a pile of dead trees?
Dam Trail

https://photos.smugmug.com/Galleries/Black-and-White/i-zpQD8x3/0/XL/dam%20trail%20bw-XL.jpg (http://www.summersmountainphoto.com/Galleries/Black-and-White/i-zpQD8x3/A)

Horseman 45HD / Fujinon 90mm f8 / Ilford FP4+ / DDX

[Maris Rusis]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6195/6072513132_8bf5dd42b3_b.jpg
Melaleuca Roots, Lake Weyba

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa MCC 111 VC FB photographic paper, image area 24.5cm X 19.6cm, from a 8x10 Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.

[Mark Sampson]

Well done, Mr. Rusis.

[DennisD]

Beautiful Roots, texture and contrast, Maris !



https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6195/6072513132_8bf5dd42b3_b.jpg
Melaleuca Roots, Lake Weyba

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa MCC 111 VC FB photographic paper, image area 24.5cm X 19.6cm, from a 8x10 Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.

[sdzsdz]

4x5 Provia 100F, Chamonix 045N-2, Rodenstock 150mm Sironar-W, developed in Tetenal E6, drumscanned on Heidelberg Tango drumscanner:

https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8021/29314313452_8f68e6dfcc_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/LEpw6s)Backlight 2 (https://flic.kr/p/LEpw6s) by Sebastian Dziuba (https://www.flickr.com/photos/88626385@N03/), auf Flickr

[Maris Rusis]

Thanks Mark Sampson and DennisD for your kind comments on the Melaleuca roots. Here's another picture showing more distorted forms that this species of tree is capable of:


https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6062/6094380603_07fe9e6220_b.jpg
Swamp Forms, Noosa NP
Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa MCC 111 VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.5cm X 19.6cm, from a 8x10 Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.

Australia is a place of extremes and even a swamp can dry completely. Trees that spend years partially submerged can develop adventitious roots that proliferate like knotted veins and arteries. Very organic!

[FredrickSummers]

https://photos.smugmug.com/Galleries/Coastal/i-t5HWKBx/2/XL/StAug%20Fort%203%20palms%20velvia-Edit-XL.jpg (http://www.summersmountainphoto.com/Galleries/Coastal/i-t5HWKBx/A)

[jesse]

Lotus 5x7, Schneider Macro Symmar HM 180mm f5.6, Lucky 100
(Cropped in square format)

https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8703/28015900583_2b7370e3c2_h.jpg

[mathomas]

Trees are one of my favorite subjects. A bit of a light leak here, but what's a little light leak between friends?

https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8322/28774822713_584e223270_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/KQJuhZ)
cypress branches (https://flic.kr/p/KQJuhZ) by Mike Thomas (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mathomas/), on Flickr

Arca Swiss F-Field
120mm Schneider Super-Symmar
Fomapan 400 @200
Rodinal 1+50, 10 minutes
1/15s @ f/11

[JWebb]

Nice Image of Castillo De San Marcos and the St Augustine Inlet. Really like the colors and very familiar as we spend quite a bit of time in St Augustine over the last 20+ years.

Was looking at your website but the one image I couldn't place was the view of the lighthouse across the bay. Was this shot over from Vilano Point. You have surf but none of the homes that would be in the picture if you shot from town.

Regards

[FredrickSummers]

Nice Image of Castillo De San Marcos and the St Augustine Inlet. Really like the colors and very familiar as we spend quite a bit of time in St Augustine over the last 20+ years.

Was looking at your website but the one image I couldn't place was the view of the lighthouse across the bay. Was this shot over from Vilano Point. You have surf but none of the homes that would be in the picture if you shot from town.

Regards

Thank you! It's a really great place that I would love to go back to. We were only there for 2 days, but I got a number of my best shots from that trip in St Augustine.

The lighthouse shot was taken from across the bay at a beach at sunset. I'll take a snapshot of the exact spot on Google Earth for you. I do wish I had a bit of a longer lens for that shot, but I made due with what I had.

I wanted to get a number more images I saw while driving and waking around, but we just so happened to have our St Augustine days during some festival downtown and other then when I went out well before dawn, you could barely even walk in town it was so crowded! What time of year is it "slow" there?


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[Shailendra]

Fitzgerald Marine Reserve
Wehman 8x10 (cropped 4x10)
Kodak TMax 100
Rodenstock 240mm

https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8134/29511796791_1cfca33f7f_c.jpg
(https://flic.kr/p/LXRF1B)Fitzgerald Marine Reserve (https://flic.kr/p/LXRF1B) by Shailendra Dhanoa (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jattitude/), on Flickr

[takpro]

Very Nice!



https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6195/6072513132_8bf5dd42b3_b.jpg
Melaleuca Roots, Lake Weyba

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa MCC 111 VC FB photographic paper, image area 24.5cm X 19.6cm, from a 8x10 Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.

[Rory_5244]

Amazing picture, and tones!


Thanks Mark Sampson and DennisD for your kind comments on the Melaleuca roots. Here's another picture showing more distorted forms that this species of tree is capable of:


https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6062/6094380603_07fe9e6220_b.jpg
Swamp Forms, Noosa NP
Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa MCC 111 VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.5cm X 19.6cm, from a 8x10 Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.

Australia is a place of extremes and even a swamp can dry completely. Trees that spend years partially submerged can develop adventitious roots that proliferate like knotted veins and arteries. Very organic!

[Maris Rusis]

Thanks takpro and Rory_5244 for your kind comments. I really like trees so here's a famous one:


https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7209/6837499520_bcc211e0d5_c.jpg
Cazneaux Tree

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC III VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.4cm X 19.4cm, from a 4x5 Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a Voigtlander Anastigmat Skopar 1:4.5 F = 13.5cm lens.
This tree was originally photographed by Harold Cazneaux in May 1937 as the subject for his famous picture "Spirit of Endurance" which received international acclaim. My Voigtlander lens dates from 1928 but it is not nearly as old as the tree which still flourishes today.

[Chris7521]

Thanks takpro and Rory_5244 for your kind comments. I really like trees so here's a famous one:


https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7209/6837499520_bcc211e0d5_c.jpg
Cazneaux Tree

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC III VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.4cm X 19.4cm, from a 4x5 Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a Voigtlander Anastigmat Skopar 1:4.5 F = 13.5cm lens.
This tree was originally photographed by Harold Cazneaux in May 1937 as the subject for his famous picture "Spirit of Endurance" which received international acclaim. My Voigtlander lens dates from 1928 but it is not nearly as old as the tree which still flourishes today.
Very interesting tree for sure. Looks like a tree that lives long and grows slow. Nice Image.

[h2oman]

Yeah, that image has grown on me. I like your choice of framing and the mood of the fog on the hills in the background.

[mat4226]

Upper Falls Residents, Old Man's Cave, Hocking Hills

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8704/29425529460_eae58a1bd7_c.jpg

Tachihara 8x10 + Schneider G-Claron 355mm f/9
Ilford HP5+ in Pyrocat HD

[jesse]

Lotus 5x7, 210mm Apo Sironar S, Delta 100, D-76

https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8339/29724493555_90474ae30b_h.jpg

[takpro]

Beautiful.


Thanks takpro and Rory_5244 for your kind comments. I really like trees so here's a famous one:


https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7209/6837499520_bcc211e0d5_c.jpg
Cazneaux Tree

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC III VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.4cm X 19.4cm, from a 4x5 Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a Voigtlander Anastigmat Skopar 1:4.5 F = 13.5cm lens.
This tree was originally photographed by Harold Cazneaux in May 1937 as the subject for his famous picture "Spirit of Endurance" which received international acclaim. My Voigtlander lens dates from 1928 but it is not nearly as old as the tree which still flourishes today.