post your trees!

[RmFrase]

Rows of Live Oaks planted early 1700's
Oak Alley Plantation, Vacherie Louisiana

Shen-Hao 4x5
75mm F4.5 NIKKOR SW
Scanned on Epson V700
Metered with Sekonic L758DR



http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/4994523193_2b43c0dab9_b.jpg


-Robert

[h2oman]

Nice, Robert. For whatever it is worth, I prefer this last one over the previous one.

[RmFrase]

Thanks Sam and H2oman for the compliments.

I got lucky on the day I was there as it was not as crowded as it usually is. Last year, I had hundreds of people walking around and it took hours before the crowds thinned out in order for me to get what few shots I did. This year, I basically had the place to myself.

[Darryl Baird]

another from the series:

http://www.darrylbaird.com/LF/2010_MI_Landscapes/Picto/resources/images/large/_0044402144.jpg

12" Kodak Portrait, 4x5 Foma 100

[venchka]

Robert,
I like your Oak Alley photo a lot as well. It's not the usual postcard shot taken from the levee looking up the drive. Different point of view. Very nice.

[mandoman7]

Great shot Jim, may be in the classic style, but it has your own personal look.... (And what are you standing on up there?).
Larry

Jim denies it here, but I've seen him do a number of shots on top of the camper shell on his Ranger, and was impressed. He had an ingenious method of stabilizing the tripod and moved around the small space quite deftly.

[jon.oman]

another from the series:

http://www.darrylbaird.com/LF/2010_MI_Landscapes/Picto/resources/images/large/_0044402144.jpg

12" Kodak Portrait, 4x5 Foma 100

I like this!

Jon

[Preston]

On the South Fork of Bishop Creek, Sierra.

http://www.gildedmoon.com/galleries/sierra-south/images/296-1Web.jpg

Since Autumn is coming soon to the Sierra, I thought I'd post this older image.

Tachihara 4x5
Astia 100F

This thread has a wonderful selection of trees. I am always amazed by theses poetic plants. Keep them coming!

--P

[merelyok]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/5004274495_552c6cba0f_b.jpg

Brought my 4x5 out for the first time today (just got it a few weeks back).

First outdoor shot (thankfully nothing serious went wrong..i did loose my 1st sheet of film from not closing the shutter after focusing!:o )

Toyo 45CFL
210mm Fujinon
Shanghai GP100
HC-110
Stand developed

[h2oman]

Jedediah Smith Sate Park, California. 4x5, I think Fuji 400T (maybe 240A?).

[adamc]

Elm tree - St. Paul, MN
Old brass lens on my Speed Graphic, TMAX 400, Vandyke Brown print.

http://www.adamcostellophotography.com/images/working/elm.jpg

[Jim Galli]

Elm tree - St. Paul, MN
Old brass lens on my Speed Graphic, TMAX 400, Vandyke Brown print.


Ohhhhh. I like.

[adamc]

Thanks, Jim!

[h2oman]

me too...

[venchka]

Ohhhhh. I like.


Thanks, Jim!


me too...

Same here. I have a couple old lenses and a Speed Graphic. I should learn the Vandyke Brown process. What do you use for exposure? Lights? Plate burner? Sunlight?

[adamc]

Thanks guys, I'm still a novice in the alternative processes, but learn more each time I make prints - taking copious notes helps me a ton.

Wayne - I started out making them using sunlight, but there are just way too many variables, so I built a table with an exposure box underneath. It has 3 flourescent banks (6 bulbs) using BLB lights, exposures are usually between 5-8 minutes. It works really nice - I cut and coat the paper on the top, and expose underneath, and is plugged in to a Gralab timer so I just set the time and walk away.

[venchka]

Thanks! I could handle that.

[jon.oman]

Elm tree - St. Paul, MN
Old brass lens on my Speed Graphic, TMAX 400, Vandyke Brown print.


I like this as well! Nice work.

Jon

[ldhayden]

Txp 320

Beautiful image!

[Steve M Hostetter]

Beautiful image!

thank you Hayden

[Gary Sommer]

N. Santiam River near Niagra, Or.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/gary2881/Large%20Format/Trees-Niagra.jpg

B&J Press 4x5
Fuji 125

[NicolasArg]

Selva Valdiviana, Patagonia Argentina

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/5056644304_0fd938ae70_b.jpg

[RoMFOTO]

I have this picture already in the landscape section, but I think it also fits in here!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4146/5057102335_7d6b209af6_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53923492@N07/5057102335/)Evening in bavarian winter (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53923492@N07/5057102335/) by Mr.RJ-M (http://www.flickr.com/people/53923492@N07/), on Flickr

[ustas]

here is one of mine

http://ipicture.ru/uploads/101009/10430/sZU7NPCU2W.jpg (http://ipicture.ru/)

[Edwin Beckenbach]

EBony 45SU, 300mm Fujinon-C, f16 1/30, Ektar 100
http://www.sunlightwings.com/images/large/treebig.jpg

[jon.oman]

Very nice light in that!

Jon

[Steve M Hostetter]

2601 Brookside PKW Indianapolis

Tree name: Chinquapin
85' tall
222" diameter
Temple Oak
historical register #450
aprox. 500 years old

Made with: Korona 8x10" w/ 11x14" expansion back
Lens: 210mm f52 Darlot
film: 11x14" efke 25
D-76 soup 7:00 min.
steve

[Steve M Hostetter]

Pine forrest
Cataract area
11x14" efke 25
405mm Kodak @f22

[Mark Stahlke]

2601 Brookside PKW Indianapolis

Tree name: Chinquapin
85' tall
222" diameter
Temple Oak
historical register #450
Now that's a tree!

[Steve M Hostetter]

stump
8x10 Korona w/ 11x14" expansion back
210mm Darlot @f52
efke 25

[Steve M Hostetter]

Now that's a tree!

:);)

[ljsegil]

Pickney Island Nature Reserve, South Carolina (off Hilton Head), Fuji Acros Neopan (last remaining Quickload, sobbing...), Linhof Master Technika 4x5, Schneider 58/5.6 SAXL at f11. Comments welcomed.
Larry

[Mark Whiting]

I take pictures of Tree Trunks, not Trees. Here are six of them from Northern Arizona, just the other side of Mormon Lake. Taken with a Fuji 150mm F5.6 on a Toho 4x5

http://www.ianmarkwhiting.com/gallery_2/jpegs/Six Trees.jpg

Comments and Critiques welcome

[bobwysiwyg]

I really like the texture and your selective DOF. It just goes to show you that "perfect shot" is sometimes only a portion of what you can see.

[ImSoNegative]

Cherokee lake, north carolina, shot with a shen-hao ptb45, 152mm ektar, 100 ektar film.

[mackinto2000]

Portola Redwoods State Park, California

[Edwin Beckenbach]

Same tree, different day
Ektar 8x10 cropped, 890mm Ronar, f32 1/8"

http://www.sunlightwings.com/images/large/ynez_tree_big.jpg

[Scott Walker]

T-Max 100, Sinar P2 8 x 10, 210mm Nikkor-W (if memory serves me well), developed in DDX @ N+2, printed on Ilford MG FB, and scanned on my crappy HP Scanjet which added some weird streaking

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/Tree.jpg

[SocalAstro]

Nice! Canyonlands N.P.?


T-Max 100, Sinar P2 8 x 10, 210mm Nikkor-W (if memory serves me well), developed in DDX @ N+2, printed on Ilford MG FB, and scanned on my crappy HP Scanjet which added some weird streaking

[Scott Walker]

Nice! Canyonlands N.P.?

No it's the Grand Canyon, near the NPS Visitor Center on the South Rim

[SocalAstro]

No it's the Grand Canyon, near the NPS Visitor Center on the South Rim

Cool, it looks similar :-)

[Shailendra]

Same tree, different day
Ektar 8x10 cropped, 890mm Ronar, f32 1/8"


You've really publish some fantastic images...

[Steve M Hostetter]

2601 Brookside PKW Indianapolis

Tree name: Chinquapin
85' tall
222" diameter
Temple Oak
historical register #450
aprox. 500 years old

Made with: Korona 8x10" w/ 11x14" expansion back
Lens: 210mm f52 Darlot
film: 11x14" efke 25
D-76 soup 7:00 min.
steve
I was wrong about the age of this tree... The oldest tree in Indiana is thought to be the Kile Oak in Irvington which is 400 years old and this (Temple Oak) tree is thought to be second oldest tree..
The Kile oak is located on Beechwood ave. in Irvington and I'll see If I can get some photos of it soon..

[Steve M Hostetter]

T-Max 100, Sinar P2 8 x 10, 210mm Nikkor-W (if memory serves me well), developed in DDX @ N+2, printed on Ilford MG FB, and scanned on my crappy HP Scanjet which added some weird streaking


Hey Scott,, This looks like dead horse point in canyon lands..?

[Sirius Glass]

Hey Scott,, This looks like dead horse point in canyon lands..?

There are no trees, dead or alive, across from Dead Horse Point.

Steve

[Peter Mounier]

I'll eat my hat if that's not the Grand Canyon.

Peter

[Sirius Glass]

I'll eat my hat if that's not the Grand Canyon.

Peter

Your hat is safe!

Steve

[Steve M Hostetter]

There are no trees, dead or alive, across from Dead Horse Point.

Steve

sure there are..I have photographed one myself

[Steve M Hostetter]

I was wrong about the age of this tree... The oldest tree in Indiana is thought to be the Kile Oak in Irvington which is 400 years old and this (Temple Oak) tree is thought to be second oldest tree..
The Kile oak is located on Beechwood ave. in Irvington and I'll see If I can get some photos of it soon..

I was wrong again,,I went tolook at the Kile tree and it is only 16'-0" in diameter where as this Temple Oak is 18'-6" in diameter.. Both trees being around the same highth

[Peter Mounier]

sure there are..I have photographed one myself

I wonder if the question is "are there are trees across from Dead Horse Point?" or is it "are there trees at Dead Horse Point?". There are trees at the point, but I can't see any in the pictures I took a long time ago (my memory has faded, and I need to see my pictures for reference). Maybe in a view from a different location, but not from here. It's pretty barren down there.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15729941@N02/

Peter

[Steve M Hostetter]

I wonder if the question is "are there are trees across from Dead Horse Point?" or is it "are there trees at Dead Horse Point?". There are trees at the point, but I can't see any in the pictures I took a long time ago (my memory has faded, and I need to see my pictures for reference). Maybe in a view from a different location, but not from here. It's pretty barren down there.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15729941@N02/

Peter

Hi Peter,,

I was wondering because I think that there is just one tree and I thought maybe we both had photographed the same one .. Only at different angles of course.."D
I'm almost sure that this is deadhorse point but I could be wrong ..
I'll see If I can dig up my version

[Sirius Glass]

Across from Dead Horse Point on the rim the are neither trees at the state park nor are the any on the off road trail down below. I have driven that trail many times and stopped at "Thema and Louise Point".

Steve

[Steve M Hostetter]

I just googled it and all the videos take you to Green River overlook

[Bruce M. Herman]

A couple of images of trees from the trail system in Anchorage.

[Vaughn]

Very good, Bruce...esp the vertical

[bbuszard]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5084667092_2a7087266f_b.jpg

In the plantation grounds of Sherwood Forest, John Tyler's family home near Richmond, VA. The Angulon barely covers 4x5, so I couldn't tilt the front at all. I set the aperture down to f/32 instead and set the hyperfocal distance to about 2/3 of the way to the house. I was tempted to go to f/45, but figured the wide-angle lens would be ok at the larger aperture.

Toyo 45A
Schneider 90mm Angulon
Yellow filter
Ilford FP4+

[Mark Whiting]

I love tree shadows. great image! The shadows look a bit foreboding - a big monster attacking the house.

Mark

[bobwysiwyg]

Just what I was thinking, perfect timing, Halloweeen and all.

[bbuszard]

Thanks, Bob and Mark, I went for maximum spookiness. The final image also makes me think of Great Birnham Wood.

[Preston]

Aspens near Virginia Lakes, Sierra.

http://www.gildedmoon.com/images/canp/601-1-Web.jpg

Tachihara 4x5
180mm Fujinon
Velvia 100
10/03/2010

--P

[Scratched Glass]

I was wrong about the age of this tree... The oldest tree in Indiana is thought to be the Kile Oak in Irvington which is 400 years old and this (Temple Oak) tree is thought to be second oldest tree..
The Kile oak is located on Beechwood ave. in Irvington and I'll see If I can get some photos of it soon..

I think the 222 inches is circumference, and not diameter. Still a mighty impressive tree.

[GIO]

Aspens near Virginia Lakes, Sierra.

Tachihara 4x5
180mm Fujinon
Velvia 100
10/03/2010

--P

Very nice. Well done Preston!

[Barry Kirsten]

Aspens near Virginia Lakes, Sierra.
--P
Just beautiful. Well done, Preston.

Baz.

[dh003i]

The (now dead) Tree of Life. Taken on 4x5 at 90/11:

The Tree of Life: A Macro Crop (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6619242/Genesee-Valley-Park_Tree-of-Life-Grand-View-f11_dr5_crop.jpg)

This barely belongs on a large-format discussion forum. It is a crop of a 4x5 down to the size of 35mm in width. The original shot, uncropped (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6619242/black_white_tree_f11.jpg) (9MB, very big!). I think the crop is clearly superior, and wish I'd thought to use my 305mm lens when on location.

[Preston]

GIO and Barry,

Thanks for your kind comments!

--P

[Richard Rau]

210mm Sironar / Ansco 4x5 / Ektar 100 4x5 Detail, Grey Summit, MO

[h2oman]

Nice image, Richard. I like everything about it. At the risk of offending anyone, I might have been tempted to shoot it as you did, then maybe again with the little weed or whatever it is on the left pulled or pushed down behind the tree. I don't think it is a deal breaker left in, though. I really like the way the large mass of the tree is balanced by the striking angular piece of wood in the water.

[argos33]

Some fall trees in a park in Boulder, Colorado



Wista SP, 150mm lens, f/22 @ 1/4 sec

[rdenney]

Nice image, Richard. I like everything about it. At the risk of offending anyone, I might have been tempted to shoot it as you did, then maybe again with the little weed or whatever it is on the left pulled or pushed down behind the tree. I don't think it is a deal breaker left in, though. I really like the way the large mass of the tree is balanced by the striking angular piece of wood in the water.

I liked the way that branch in the water forced me to look more closely at the image to understand it. It was a visual non-sequitur that compelled a closer look to understand the geometric relationships.

Rick "who is not that often forced to look more closely" Denney

[dh003i]

I liked the way that branch in the water forced me to look more closely at the image to understand it. It was a visual non-sequitur that compelled a closer look to understand the geometric relationships.

Rick "who is not that often forced to look more closely" Denney

Yea, at first the branch looks like a levitating diamond.

[wager123]

the thomasville ga live oak was as far away as i could get and even with a 90mm couldn't get it all in. ebony 4 x 5 90mm 4.5 ilford fp4+ on ilfor mg fb
mitch

[mrladewig]

Pike National Forest

Velvia 100f, Nikkor 300M
http://ladewigs.com/Gallery/d/2897-1/45_RVP100F_20101007_012_sm.jpg

[Richard Rau]

Nice image, Richard. I like everything about it. At the risk of offending anyone, I might have been tempted to shoot it as you did, then maybe again with the little weed or whatever it is on the left pulled or pushed down behind the tree. I don't think it is a deal breaker left in, though. I really like the way the large mass of the tree is balanced by the striking angular piece of wood in the water.



Yeah, I thought about it, but generally I'm not one to mess with mother-nature. Could be bad karma! And I meant to say that this was shot on Ektapan 100, which should give you an idea how old this image is, since Kodak stopped making it over 25 years ago.

[roteague]

Pike National Forest

Velvia 100f, Nikkor 300M

If you keep posting images like this, I'm going to have to go back to Colorado someday ... which I thought I would never do.

[Maris Rusis]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/5120014480_b2d52c5c87_b.jpg

Gelatin-silver photograph on Arista Edu Ultra FB VC, image area 20.3cmX25.4cm, exposed in contact with a Fomabrom 200 negative. Camera was a Tachihara triple extension 8x10 field view camera with a Fujinon W 300mmf5.6 lens. The trees had grown in each others company for 300 years but now one has died, one still flourishes; grace in life and death.

[Michael Wynd]

Are they snow gums Maris? I loike it a lot. Great control over the harsh contrast.
Mike

[mdm]

Gelatin-silver photograph on Arista Edu Ultra FB VC, image area 20.3cmX25.4cm, exposed in contact with a Fomabrom 200 negative. Camera was a Tachihara triple extension 8x10 field view camera with a Fujinon W 300mmf5.6 lens. The trees had grown in each others company for 300 years but now one has died, one still flourishes; grace in life and death.

Nice photograph and well done for finding and communicating such beauty and sadness.

David

[brianam]

my first shot on 8x10. a gray day on the CA coast south of SF, about two months ago.
Wista 810, Fujinon 250/6.7, Tri-X, XTOL. Turns out a 250 feels wider on 810 than I thought it would; I think this had the maximum rise.

[Darryl Baird]

http://www.darrylbaird.com/LF/2010_MI_Landscapes/TreeClan_sm.jpg

Nature Sanctuary, Fenton,MI

Kodak Portrait Lens, 305mm

[Jim Galli]

Nature Sanctuary, Fenton,MI

Kodak Portrait Lens, 305mm


I love it!

[Michael Graves]

Tree by Mill Creek, St. Albans, Vermont. November, 2010. 4x5 Crown Graphic, 150mm Fujinon 5.6W, HP5 developed in Rodinal.

[bvaughn4]

Beautiful work Maris!

[ustas]

\

Nature Sanctuary, Fenton,MI

Kodak Portrait Lens, 305mm

A dreamy one!

[JustinB]

Two of my first images. I don't know why the color image came out so much softer, I must have knocked the camera post focusing and didn't realize it.

Both: Sinar F2, Fujinon 210W f/5.6 @ f16 1/30
Scanned on Epson V750.

Fuji FP100C45
http://justinberman.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Untitled-4.jpg
Fuji FP100B45
http://justinberman.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/TreeBW.jpg

[Jim Cole]

Finally got out in my new home state of Indiana for the first time with the 4x5 and tried to capture a bit of the rural scene. Just got the one shot so far.

"Tree and Barn" on Acros souped in Rodinal.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1304/5183150782_2a8bae796c_b.jpg

[Vertex Ninja]

I was wrong about the age of this tree... The oldest tree in Indiana is thought to be the Kile Oak in Irvington which is 400 years old and this (Temple Oak) tree is thought to be second oldest tree..
The Kile oak is located on Beechwood ave. in Irvington and I'll see If I can get some photos of it soon..

I've lived in Irvington for the last 7 years and never knew this! Thanks so much for the info, i plan to go check this one out in the next few days... and the tree in your previous post too.

[Frank Petronio]

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/trees_road_spotty_01.jpg

[Struan Gray]

A portrait of a favourite tree. The largest single-stem rowan I've ever seen. Culnacraig, Scotland, 2009.


http://struangray.com/miscpics/rowan_600.jpg

[Steve M Hostetter]

I've lived in Irvington for the last 7 years and never knew this! Thanks so much for the info, i plan to go check this one out in the next few days... and the tree in your previous post too.

Hello Vertex,,

I was wrong .. It's vise versa, Kile oak is second oldest and Temple Oak is oldest

[David Schaller]

Wisner technical 4x5, Schneider 210/370 at 370, HP5 in Pyrocat-HD.

Criticisms always welcome,
Dave

[Hugo Zhang]

Here is one in my front yard.

[brianam]

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/trees_road_spotty_01.jpg

woah, you stopped beside the 92 on the way over to Half Moon Bay?
OK, could be wrong. But if so it's a dead wringer, and I've always loved that section of road and trees. :)

[gth]

Presidio?!

[Shailendra]

woah, you stopped beside the 92 on the way over to Half Moon Bay?
OK, could be wrong. But if so it's a dead wringer, and I've always loved that section of road and trees. :)

Yep, that does look like the section of 92 going towards Half Moon Bay....Great location

[jonreid]

Here's one !
Deardorff 5x7, I think it was my 150mm Computar Symmetrigon. Original prints beautiful in Pt/Pd. Rollo pyro developed Tri-X. This scan is from the neg, not the print...
J
PS: It was friggin' cold...

[ljsegil]

Fun with sideways (!) 4x10. 8x10 Canham Traditional camera with Keith's 4x10 reducing back, Kodak E100VS, Schneider 150/5.6 SSXL at f/16. Mostly tree with a little water thrown in for more tree than otherwise.
Larry

[urs0polar]

Finally got out in my new home state of Indiana for the first time with the 4x5 and tried to capture a bit of the rural scene. Just got the one shot so far.

"Tree and Barn" on Acros souped in Rodinal.



Awesome!

[Steve M Hostetter]

8x10" paper neg. Korona w/ magnifying glass lens @f2.6 home made shutter

[Preston]

Beautiful shot, Jim. Very peaceful.

Here's a rework of an older shot from 2008.

Aspen Glade, Bishop Creek

http://www.gildedmoon.com/images/canp/479-1a-Web.jpg

Tachihara 4x5
180mm Fujinon
Astia 100-F

--P

[Preston]

Oaks in El Capitan Meadow, Yosemite, early November, 2010...

http://www.gildedmoon.com/images/canp/614-1-Web.jpg

Tahihara 4x5
Forgot which lens I used, but probably a 180 Fujinon
Astia 100-F

--P

[jon.oman]

Nice one Preston!

[SamReeves]

Beautiful shot, Jim. Very peaceful.

Here's a rework of an older shot from 2008.

Aspen Glade, Bishop Creek


Tachihara 4x5
180mm Fujinon
Astia 100-F

--P

I'm a sucker for fall colors. Beautiful photo!

[dave_whatever]

We've had what is, for us, a lot of snow over the last week in parts of the UK. Here is a shot I got on Tuesday while my work was closed:

http://www.daveparryphotography.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/recent-landscapes/portersnowtrees015.jpg

Velvia 50, no filters, taken with a lowly 150mm G-Claron which I bought for about £10 on ebay and screwed into an existing shutter, and fudged a quick aperture scale with a pencil and paper.

[Jim Cole]

Oaks in El Capitan Meadow, Yosemite, early November, 2010...

Tahihara 4x5
Forgot which lens I used, but probably a 180 Fujinon
Astia 100-F

--P

I love this one Preston. Someone needs to paint this!

[Preston]

Sam and Jim,

Many thanks, gentlemen!

--P

[csant]

3 x 8 x 10, pine tree. Lodima, Amidol, selenium, iron blue.


http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5241/5266807060_641a0ea8cb_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/csant/5266807060/)

More details over at flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/csant/5266807060/).

[thomassen]

From a 8x10 Jandc 100 300mm WW

[Donald Miller]

3 x 8 x 10, pine tree. Lodima, Amidol, selenium, iron blue.



Very nice.

[cr2512]

Graflex 4x5, Petzval (projection lens) 150/4, Era100, Xtol 1+1

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4271815255_65f2fff95c_o.jpg

[Maris Rusis]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5281/5269946859_50ec742002_b.jpg
Snowgum View, number 009

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

[bvaughn4]

Magnolia roots. Zone VI 4x5, HP5, 12" Darlot


http://billvaughnphotography.com/lf/content/bin/images/large/magnolia_roots.jpg

[bvaughn4]

Maris, that is a great image of an awesome tree!

[csant]

Very nice.

Thank you Donald.

[Maris Rusis]

Maris, that is a great image of an awesome tree!

Thanks for the kudo.

Australia has millions of Snow Gums in the altitude band between 1200 metres and 1800 metres but very few of them are truly ancient. The grove of giant trees where the pictured specimens grow has not seen fire for more than 300 years.

In the United States these magnificent trees would be given individual names. In Australia they prosper because they are crooked. If they were straight they would have been saw-logs a hundred years ago.

[Frank_E]

wonderful tree, wonderful image..




Snowgum View, number 009

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

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Here are a couple of images from my recent trip in October to Jedidiah Smith Redwoods. Both are carbon transfer prints.

Jim

[Preston]

Maris and Jim,

Beautiful work!

--P

[Vaughn]

Here are a couple of images from my recent trip in October to Jedidiah Smith Redwoods. Both are carbon transfer prints.

Jim

Oh, merde...there goes my monopoly on redwood carbon prints...;)

Beautiful, Jim!

Vaughn

pardon my french...

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Oh, merde...there goes my monopoly on redwood carbon prints...;)

Beautiful, Jim!

Vaughn

pardon my french...

Oh, I forgot to tell you I need to move up your way! When you can shoot from the road, I mean come on! As it was I think I had the 11x14 set up at the same time or was it the 8x20 and 11x14? All I know is it was magic that day! BTW, thanks and as you know the prints in the flesh are something to see.

Jim

[Vaughn]

Are those 8x10 or 11x14 -- the proportions look like 8x10

I don't reconize the trees -- Jed Smith?

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Are those 8x10 or 11x14 -- the proportions look like 8x10

I don't reconize the trees -- Jed Smith?

Vaughn, yes they are 8x10. Just got to printing them today. Well these two at least. I have about 10 more to print. Yes, this is from that wonderful road you told me about in Jed Smith. I have to go back there. The neg's are a little low contrast but with a high pigment tissue and low sensitizer I was able to get some great tones and very nice relief.

Jim

[tgtaylor]

Bay Tree and Mountain, Clayton, California

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5208/5276729754_4ac34dd94e.jpg

[Jim Cole]

Here are a couple of images from my recent trip in October to Jedidiah Smith Redwoods. Both are carbon transfer prints.

Jim

Jim,

I'd love to see the print of first one. I bet it's magnificent!

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Jim,

I'd love to see the print of first one. I bet it's magnificent!

Jim, thank you. Yes, the depth in the image is what I really like and the tone is very appealing. I was using some tissue with a different pigment load and I'm glad I keep good notes. I'm going to pour tissue tonight with the same pigment. I've got about 10 more images from this area to print. The 3-D effect with the relief and all makes it one of my favorites already.

Jim

[Daniel Stone]

Here are a couple of images from my recent trip in October to Jedidiah Smith Redwoods. Both are carbon transfer prints.

Jim



Jim,

are you using x-ray film for the majority of your work now? I've been looking into it myself, as a suitable replacement for Efke100 and FP4+.

any ideas of a good place to start? I'm using 8x10. Are there any non-rounded corner x-ray films by chance?

beautiful prints! I'll bet they're 10x better in person though!

it was great to meet you over in Riverside 2 mo back or so, have you finished your 14x17 yet?

-Dan

[David Hedley]

Catkins, Upper Rhine wetlands
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5209/5277391089_735dd7d481_b.jpg
Sinar F, Schneider 180mm, Ilford Delta 100 / PMK Pyro, yellow filter

[William McEwen]

David: NICE!

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Jim,

are you using x-ray film for the majority of your work now? I've been looking into it myself, as a suitable replacement for Efke100 and FP4+.

any ideas of a good place to start? I'm using 8x10. Are there any non-rounded corner x-ray films by chance?

beautiful prints! I'll bet they're 10x better in person though!

it was great to meet you over in Riverside 2 mo back or so, have you finished your 14x17 yet?

-Dan

Dan, I have gone to using Efke-25 and green sensitive x-ray film. I use x-ray film in all of the formats that I shoot except 8x20. The two 8x10 images I posted are shot on Efke-25. I have had good success using either of these films and developing them in Pyrocat-HD.
X-ray film comes only with rounded corners to my knowledge. After I develop a sheet ( I do 4 at a time in hangers for 8x10) I take a hole punch and punch a notch in a corner. Not all that important I guess but I like to know which side of the film is facing the lens. Emulsion on both side and all.

The 14x17 I'm hoping it will be done by years end. Going back to my friend Matt Blais home next week to finish all of the wood parts. Bellows is on order from England.

Jim

[sidmac]

Point Lobos, California

[David Hedley]

Thanks, William.

[adamc]

Here are a couple from last weekend. We were stranded at my brother-in-law's house because of a 2-day blizzard, the good news was I had my Speed Graphic, the bad news was it was damn cold and I only got a few quick shots before my hands froze.

http://adamcostellophotography.com/images/working/blizzard001.jpg

http://adamcostellophotography.com/images/working/blizzard005.jpg

[Vaughn]

You made excellent use of your time out in the cold, Adam!

[bgh]

You made excellent use of your time out in the cold, Adam!

I quite agree--the top in particular does it for me.

[Jiri Vasina]

http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/gallery/podzim/p13x18-385_web.jpg (http://www.vasina.net/?p=2892)

Oldie

Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach Repro-Claron 305mm, 13×18cm, Wephota NP 15 @ EI 25, N-1 development in Rodinal.

[Vaughn]

I quite agree--the top in particular does it for me.

That is also the one that impresses me the most -- I believe it is how the composition works so well with the two different types of contrast of the two different types of trees in the image.

[adamc]

Thanks!
These negatives kind of opened my eyes, I'd never given too much thought about shooting during a snowfall, but I saw some nice potential here. I love the way the long exposures create a kind of 'layered' effect. I went out again yesterday, exploring this a bit further. Trudging around in knee-deep snow with my gear is pretty tough, but at least it get's me out of the house. :)

[tgtaylor]

Nice images everyone!

I was especially impressed with Juri's. It's a magnificent tree that's eminently worthy of repeated trips back with the biggest camera you can haul and boxes of paper to get that one perfect print.

But I'm more partial to my own...

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5208/5276729754_4ac34dd94e.jpg

for all the obvious prejudicial reasons. If I didn't like it I wouldn't have bothered to pull the camera out of the pack and shoot it!

The tree was the subject but trying to incorporate the mountain background with it's soft muted colors accentuated by an oncoming fog posed a compositional problem.

A Bay tree, and this is an excellent example of one, is quite large and challenging to image its beautiful symmetry. Here I had a beautiful Bay tree and a wonderful background to work with - in essence two subjects each worthy of an image in its own right. The above was my solution and my eye moves from the tree to the background. Which is the subject? I'm a sucker for the grand landscape.

Judging from the summer gold of the foreground grasses and the light green of the grasses of the mountain, I would say that this was taken in the late fall at the beginning of the rains. The location lies almost exactly at the mid point of an 7 or 8 mile loop hike.

Thomas

[Jiri Vasina]

Thomas, thanks... actually, I've made more exposures at the time, and here is a second one I'd like to present...


http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/gallery/podzim/p13x18-387_web.jpg (http://www.vasina.net/?p=2896)

Oldie (up close)

Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach G-Claron 150mm, 13×18cm, Wephota NP 15 @ EI 25, N-1 development in Rodinal 1:50. Full frame.

Jiri

[csant]

Jiri, that last shot is wonderful! The long exposure really adds something to it!

[eduardtoader]

Oldie

Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach Repro-Claron 305mm, 13×18cm, Wephota NP 15 @ EI 25, N-1 development in Rodinal.

I love it, Jiri.. A beautiful slovenian oak, I think..

happy holydays.

[Jiri Vasina]

Thanks Eduard, but actually you are not entirely correct :)

From the lore of middle ages, here the Oaks are thought to be German (or more precisely Germanic/Teutonic) and a symbol of Germany (Prussia), as opposed to the Lime Tree, which is a Slavonic symbol. That's also the reason there are not so many old Oaks around here - but a lot of Limes... The Oaks were cut down as a symbol showing the opposition to (possible) German migrants coming here to the Czech kingdom.

The lore elsewhere may differ... ;)

But anyway, thanks and merry holidays to you too...

Jiri

[Jim Cole]

Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach Repro-Claron 305mm, 13×18cm, Wephota NP 15 @ EI 25, N-1 development in Rodinal.

Beautiful, like a rich tapestry. Glad you're back Jiri.

[Maris Rusis]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5250/5284679858_0b147f5569_b.jpg
Snow Gum, number 031

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomapan 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.

Maybe a hundred years ago this grand tree suffered damage and an epicormic bud sprang into activity. This bud is now the trunk size branch leaving the photograph in the upper left hand corner of the frame. The ancient tree itself lives on with many more summers and winters to celebrate its vitality.

[ImSoNegative]

here are a couple shot with a burke and james 5x7 w/190mm wollensak lens.

[SamReeves]

Snow Gum, number 031

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomapan 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.

Maybe a hundred years ago this grand tree suffered damage and an epicormic bud sprang into activity. This bud is now the trunk size branch leaving the photograph in the upper left hand corner of the frame. The ancient tree itself lives on with many more summers and winters to celebrate its vitality.

Great image!!

[Joe O'Hara]

Very powerful, Maris!

[Joe O'Hara]

A memory of a tree, now washed up on the beach near Wachats, Oregon.

[Vaughn]

Powerful images, Maris. Very different trees from the Redwoods, but in a way not that different. Old trees formed by the land, and by the events of decades or centuries ago.

Joe -- I enjoyed your image!

[Jim Fitzgerald]

This is a shot along the Eel River by Bull Creek Flat. Taken on my way home from my visit with Vaughn in October. 8x10 Carbon Transfer print.

The sun was on the trees when I pulled over and was creating a beautiful reflection in the river. Problem was by the time I set up the storm clouds covered up the sun so I cut out most of the river. Lost the great natural contrast in the scene but still made a nice print. Tough to show the detail on the web.


Jim

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Forgot I had one more 8x10 that I'd done from the trip. This one is in Prairie Creek. I've got to call it Vaughn's Tree as he pointed it out to me and has made a beautiful carbon print from the same area.

Jim

[Vaughn]

Forgot I had one more 8x10 that I'd done from the trip. This one is in Prairie Creek. I've got to call it Vaughn's Tree as he pointed it out to me and has made a beautiful carbon print from the same area.

Jim


That would be this one (carbon)...and with my three boys (pt/pd)..and then Alex by himself (pt/pd with an X-ray film neg)

I do like that tree -- I recently made a vertical 7x17 of it also (x-ray film).

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Vaughn that is the one! A lot of growth since you took your shot.

Jim

[Jim Cole]

OK, this is the result of a couple of hours of boredom. I took a 4x5 neg that never worked as a standard B&W print and spent an hour or so in photoshop attempting to reproduce the look of a late 19th century pictorial style photogravure. Not sure if I succeeded, but it was fun trying.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5245/5300959481_f2e6b6595d_b.jpg

[Joe O'Hara]

Thanks for your comment Vaughn. I mis-spoke-- the location was near Yachats, of course.

[adamc]

Another snowstorm shot with my Speed Graphic. Happy New Year!

http://www.adamcostellophotography.com/images/working/blizzard_2_001.jpg


-cropped slightly from the top

[mikebarger]

Adam, very nice. You're seeing snow...we're under a tornado warning.

Mike

[adamc]

Wow, tornado warnings! Stay safe, and thanks Mike!

[ghostcount]

A carbon print of Bristlecone Pine - I was a little too eager on development and agitated too much. The edges started to frill and the film border floated away, but I think I like it.

Korona 5x7
ADOX CHS25 on WD2D+
Transferred on Arista EDU Ultra RC Paper

49259

[SamReeves]

Another snowstorm shot with my Speed Graphic. Happy New Year!

-cropped slightly from the top

A real beauty! :) Nice one.

[Vaughn]

A carbon print of Bristlecone Pine - I was a little too eager on development and agitated too much. The edges started to frill and the film border floated away, but I think I like it.


Yes, the frilling actually is kind of nice with this image!

[ghostcount]

Yes, the frilling actually is kind of nice with this image!

Thanks Vaughn.

[David Hedley]

A carbon print of Bristlecone Pine - I was a little too eager on development and agitated too much. The edges started to frill and the film border floated away, but I think I like it.

Korona 5x7
ADOX CHS25 on WD2D+
Transferred on Arista EDU Ultra RC Paper

49259

That works really well, ghostcount.

[ghostcount]

That works really well, ghostcount.

Thanks David!

I like creative accidents - lack of patience control can sometime be a pleasing discovery. :D

[eduardtoader]

Another snowstorm shot with my Speed Graphic. Happy New Year!

-cropped slightly from the top

The best wishes for you too, Adam. You´re a good tender shoots hunter, Thanks for sharing.

[adietrich]

When I grow up I want to be an orange tree!
http://www.thedietrichs.us/sites/misc/20110101-20110101_Orange.jpg
(Linhof Tech III, Press Xenar, Fomapan 100, Rodinal stand development)

Happy New Year!
-a

[L&Scape]

Sequoias at Kings Canyon National Park, Feb 2010
Toyo field 8x10 with 240mm @ f:22 on Fuji Provia 100F

[Maris Rusis]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5281/5269946859_50ec742002_b.jpg
Snowgum View, number 009

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

[Vaughn]

Vaughn that is the one! A lot of growth since you took your shot.

Jim

Hey, Jim! Actually it just depends on the angle. Yesterday I went up and re-photographed the below image with the boys in about the same positions -- now as 13-year olds instead of 5-year olds! And instead of an 8x10, it is a vertical 7x17 -- a little more of the tree included!

Then we went along the Parkway where you and I photographed along the road for awhile, and took a horizontal 7x17 of the boys...in a way have I not done before. I used my 19" RD Artar -- seemed to cover well.

So, something old and something new for the first day of the New Year! I'll get those negs developed in the next couple of days.

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=49031&d=1293476779

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Vaughn, can't wait to see the images. The one along the parkway is that the set up you were talking about with that great tree along the road? BTW I got a great deal on a 19" Artar and it is even in the aluminum barrel! It will cover the 14x17.

Jim

[Vaughn]

Jim, I did not use that tree this time -- I had a different idea for a portrait.

I used my 1000W NuArc last night for the first time. I first did 50 units, then 200, then eventually 600 units and did not quite get past making the film base+fog black...but close (we'll see how they dry down). Making 7x17 carbons was no problem...making good ones is the challenging bit!

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Jim, I did not use that tree this time -- I had a different idea for a portrait.

I used my 1000W NuArc last night for the first time. I first did 50 units, then 200, then eventually 600 units and did not quite get past making the film base+fog black...but close (we'll see how they dry down). Making 7x17 carbons was no problem...making good ones is the challenging bit!

Dialing in exposure is going to take a bit. Once that happens you can generally get a final print in one or two tries.

Jim

[Vaughn]

Yeah -- that is why I stuck to one light source for many years even though it was slow. Of course the blue-based x-ray film and its processing is new to me, too. Nothing like changing multiple variables! LOL!

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Vaughn, what was it you told me about multiple changes? Welcome to my world!

Jim

[Michael Wynd]

Love your tree shots Maris
Mike

[Jiri Vasina]

http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/gallery/podzim/p13x18-391-c_web.jpg (http://www.vasina.net/?p=2912)

Intruders

Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach Repro-Claron 305mm, 13×18cm, Wephota NP 15 @ EI 25, N development in Rodinal, square crop.

[Jim Cole]

Just beautiful Jiri.

[bbarna]

Chanomix 45N1, Schneider 135/5.6, Ilford FP4,

[Jiri Vasina]

Thanks Jim.

And I find the one posted by bbarna beautiful, carefully composed and very well exposed and processed... Very nice one...

Jiri

[bobwysiwyg]

Chanomix 45N1, Schneider 135/5.6, Ilford FP4,

Nice composition and tonality, I really like this one.

[Maris Rusis]

Love your tree shots Maris
Mike

Thanks for your kind words.

When I told them I was going to drive 5000km, spend $2000, and do 6 weeks of camera hauling, to photograph 12 trees on a hillside they laughed; but they weren't photographers. Worth it? Absolutely!

[johnmsanderson]

half a tree :P

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3018/3091370816_e76fdbc464.jpg

[John Kasaian]

Intruders

Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach Repro-Claron 305mm, 13×18cm, Wephota NP 15 @ EI 25, N development in Rodinal, square crop.

That's beautiful!

[Steve M Hostetter]

Intruders

Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach Repro-Claron 305mm, 13×18cm, Wephota NP 15 @ EI 25, N development in Rodinal, square crop.

Nice one Jiri,

Looks like an abandoned fire trail or powerline

[Jiri Vasina]

That's beautiful!


Nice one Jiri,

Looks like an abandoned fire trail or powerline

Thanks, guys :)

Steve, no it's not. It's just the byproduct of how trees are grown in some parts of the country here: an area of trees (of the same species/type) is planted at the same time, grown up, and when they are ripe/grown enough for cutting, all of them are cut down. New ones are planted again... I'm not a forest engineer or whatever, so can't comment if it's good or bad, but it's just how it is...

(there are very few forest fires here in the Czech Republic, and if they are, usually they are very limited... nowhere near the disasters there are in other parts of the world - so no fire trail too)

Jiri

[mandoman7]

Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach Repro-Claron 305mm, 13×18cm, Wephota NP 15 @ EI 25, N development in Rodinal, square crop.

I love the tones in this one. Also love the willingness to go back to square after going to the trouble of shooting in 5x8.

[Steve Gledhill]

http://www.virtuallygrey.co.uk/files/9311/1629oakbarn2.jpg
Spanish Moss on Live Oak - Georgia - USA

http://www.virtuallygrey.co.uk/files/9311/2264fencetreesno1.jpg
Fence & Trees - Bath - England

[bvaughn4]

Steve, both are beautiful. Georgia was a long field trip!

[Preston]

Beautiful, Steve. I really like the back light on the moss in the first one, and the shadow of the fence in the second.

Down By the School Yard

http://www.gildedmoon.com/galleries/newwork/images/546-1Web.jpg

1850's School House and Redbud Tree, Columbia, CA.
Tachihara 4x5
300mm Nikkor-M
Astia 100-F
2010

[tgtaylor]

Great images everyone!

While not attempting to hi-jack the thread (I didn't see another place to post this and my thinking is that posters to this thread are more likely to have the answer), does anyone know the name of these trees which are found in southern Chile near Puerto Natales:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5208/5281643271_fb9feae7cc.jpg

Thanks,

Thomas

[Steve Gledhill]

Steve, both are beautiful. Georgia was a long field trip!

Thanks. I get across the pond about once a year for a photo trip. They're always productive.

[eduardtoader]

Beautiful, Steve. I really like the back light on the moss in the first one, and the shadow of the fence in the second.

Down By the School Yard

1850's School House and Redbud Tree, Columbia, CA.
Tachihara 4x5
300mm Nikkor-M
Astia 100-F
2010

Very good shot, Preston. I love the classic composition..

[Jiri Vasina]

http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/gallery/zima/p13x18-395-c_web.jpg (http://www.vasina.net/?p=2921)

Winter Trees #1

Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 210mm, 13×18cm, Wephota NP 15 @ EI 25, developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 10:30min.

[bobwysiwyg]

Very nice Jiri, I really like this one!

[Frank Bunnik]

Superb photo Jiri.

[Jiri Vasina]

bob and Frank, thanks a lot

Jiri

[austin granger]

Trees, trees, trees...

www.austingranger.com

[austin granger]

And more trees...

www.austingranger.com

[Jiri Vasina]

Second one from the same day


http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/gallery/zima/p13x18-396-c1_web.jpg (http://www.vasina.net/?p=2923)

Winter Trees #2

Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 210mm, 13×18cm, Wephota NP 15 @ EI 25, developed in Rodinal 1:50.

[bobwysiwyg]

Jiri, love them both, very nice. The first has that little surprise waiting, the cross. The second.. just very nice indeed.

[Joe O'Hara]

Snow would fall from these pitch pines every time a breeze came through.

[mandoman7]

Trees, trees, trees...

www.austingranger.com

Very nice series, austin.

[austin granger]

Thanks John. Being from Sonoma county, you might recognize a few of those (the eucalyptus, the windbreak, the colonnade) as being out at Point Reyes. Incidentally, for anyone interested, the dead trees were in Death Valley, and the stumps are in Lake Almanor, California.

www.austingranger.com

[austin granger]

Here are a couple of color shots. I'm not sure if that last one qualifies as a 'tree' anymore, but I thought it still might be of interest.

http://austingranger.com/web/astoria/02-12_tree_farm.jpg

http://austingranger.com/web/astoria/02-02_indians.jpg

http://austingranger.com/web/astoria/04-09_eagle_stump.jpg

[mandoman7]

You recently moved to Portland?
Nice work on the site, by the way.

[Joe O'Hara]

Wonderful set, Austin. I especially like the first, the fifth, and the last.



And more trees...

www.austingranger.com

[Steve M Hostetter]

Nice work austin

[eduardtoader]

Second one from the same day




Winter Trees #2

Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 210mm, 13×18cm, Wephota NP 15 @ EI 25, developed in Rodinal 1:50.


Your photo remember me about a Evan Clarke shot. I really love it. His and your. I miss locations like this..

[Steve Smith]

Not the greatest of pictures but it was one of the first four LF images taken by me and my home made 5x4 camera.


http://www.apug.org/gallery1/files/1/2/2/2/9/tree5x4.jpg


I have plenty more tree pictures but most of them are medium format.


Steve.

[Robert Brummitt]

Here is one I just did a week ago.

[Dave Hally]

Pine Trees at Olmstead Point Yosemite, with a blown out scan.
Toyo 45A, Fuji 135 (?) Velvia 50

[Jim Cole]

Jiri, I'm constantly amazed with the consistency of your work. Both of the tree images are just wonderful.


Here's one from the Flagstaff area before I moved away. Autumn maple in the west fork of Oak Creek Canyon. Back when I was shooting color.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5124/5355920326_53a5b8db2c_b.jpg

[Jiri Vasina]

Jim, the warm colors in the tree are so pleasing, especially in the bleakness of winter here (at the moment, there's no snow here, just mud everywhere).

And Jim, thanks a lot... you have the impression of consistency because you don't see the amount of worse images I make... And there are quite a few of them... :)

Here is another one I hope is worth presenting


http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/gallery/zima/p13x18-403-c_web.jpg (http://www.vasina.net/?p=2932)

Water's Edge

Chamonix 5×8″, Hugo Meyer Wide Angle Aristostigmat 160mm, 13×18cm, Wephota NP 15 @ EI 25, N development in Rodinal 1:50.

[Steve M Hostetter]

Jim, the warm colors in the tree are so pleasing, especially in the bleakness of winter here (at the moment, there's no snow here, just mud everywhere).

And Jim, thanks a lot... you have the impression of consistency because you don't see the amount of worse images I make... And there are quite a few of them... :)

Here is another one I hope is worth presenting




Water's Edge

Chamonix 5×8″, Hugo Meyer Wide Angle Aristostigmat 160mm, 13×18cm, Wephota NP 15 @ EI 25, N development in Rodinal 1:50.

really nice Jiri

[eduardtoader]

I´m agree with Steve.

[Jan Pedersen]

Water's Edge

Chamonix 5×8″, Hugo Meyer Wide Angle Aristostigmat 160mm, 13×18cm, Wephota NP 15 @ EI 25, N development in Rodinal 1:50

One more agreeing, this is a very nice winter scene Jiri.

[keith schreiber]

https://files.me.com/j.k.schreiber/ir4zbd

Mesquite Bosque, Gila River, AZ 2005
palladium print, 7x17 inches

Korona 7x17 | 450 Nikkor M | HP5+ | 1/60 @ f11 and 2sec @ f128 | DD23 (time & temp not noted)

[Jiri Vasina]

Steve, Eduard and Jan, thanks a lot. I have a last one from that outing, but that one is not about the trees... it's in the Architecture photographs (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=37200&page=89)thread...






Mesquite Bosque, Gila River, AZ 2005
palladium print, 7x17 inches

Korona 7x17 | 450 Nikkor M | HP5+ | 1/60 @ f11 and 2sec @ f128 | DD23 (time & temp not noted)

Keith, that's a truly fantastic photo, the effect of double exposure is wonderful

Jiri

[eduardtoader]

wonderfull work, Keith.

[adamc]

Very nice images Jiri and Keith.
Here is one from the other night, at a local park.

http://www.adamcostellophotography.com/images/working/blizzard_3_003.jpg

Speed Graphic - barrel lens
thanks for looking :)

[northcarolinajack]

I have a fascination with trees, and that's taken up the bulk of my shooting lately. I don't see any threads devoted to tree photographs, so maybe this one will catch on :)

Here's some few from the past few weekends:

[northcarolinajack]

These are great, love to photograph trees. Would add a North Carolina tree in the snow, but just joined the forum and could not get the shot uploaded.

Jack

[keith schreiber]

Some beautiful work in this thread!

Here is another double exposure. Russ Young once told me that this was a technique used by Karl Struss way back when, but I have never been able to verify this. We had some Struss work at the museum I used to work at but nothing that looked to me like it used any kind of double exposure. I'd love to see examples if anyone knows of something.


https://files.me.com/j.k.schreiber/a01x77

After the Fire, AZ 1992
palladium print, 5x7 inches

210 Fujinon W | f64 @ 3 sec & f5.6 @ 1/30 | TXP in DD23 6+3 75F Jobo

[Maris Rusis]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1103/5120098672_c61501c4f1_b.jpg
Snowgum skeleton


Gelatin-silver photograph on Arista Edu Ultra FB VC, image area 20.3cm X 25.4cm, exposed in contact with a Fomabrom 200 negative. Camera was a Tachihara triple extension 8x10 field view camera with a Schneider 121mm f8 Super Angulon lens and #25 red filter. The tree has been blasted by years of ice storms and the wood is polished smooth and white.

[Steve M Hostetter]

Snowgum skeleton


Gelatin-silver photograph on Arista Edu Ultra FB VC, image area 20.3cm X 25.4cm, exposed in contact with a Fomabrom 200 negative. Camera was a Tachihara triple extension 8x10 field view camera with a Schneider 121mm f8 Super Angulon lens and #25 red filter. The tree has been blasted by years of ice storms and the wood is polished smooth and white.

nice one Maris!

[mdm]

Pleased your darkroom didnt float away Maris.

[austin granger]

Cemetery, above Schooner Bay, Point Reyes

http://austingranger.com/web/elegy/25-cemetary_above_schooner_bay.jpg


Eucalyptus and Wind, Drake's Estero, Point Reyes

http://austingranger.com/web/elegy/50-eucalyptus_and_wind_drakes_estero.jpg


The Edge of the Bishop Pine Forest from Pierce Point Road, Point Reyes

http://austingranger.com/web/elegy/53-edge_of_the_bishop_pine_forest_from_pierce_point_road.jpg

www.austingranger.com

[tgtaylor]

Inside the Cemetary above Schooners Bay, Point Reyes National Seahore

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4735536647_027828e196_b.jpg

You made me do it, Austin :D

Toyo 45AX, Nikkor 120mm Macro AM ED, Fuji Acros.

The 120 AM ED was not the best lens to shoot this with but I had just purchased it and couldn't wait to try it out. Not bad for a Macro, eh?

Thomas

[Maris Rusis]

Pleased your darkroom didnt float away Maris.

Almost! Water did come through the front wall of my house and ruined the floor in the studio/workshop. Fortunately it didn't quite get to the darkroom, film freezers, or the photograph archive. The insurance company has already given me a new floor and the building is temporarily protected by an ugly moat (hand dug, phew) and drain.

So far, so good; fingers crossed. I've been lucky compared to the wider tragedy of the Australian flood disasters.

[austin granger]

Nice Thomas!

I thought I was the only one who had ever tromped around that cemetery. Actually, I have a picture of the headstones too, but yours is better so I'm not going to post it.

Speaking of Point Reyes, if you'll forgive the shameless plug, you might enjoy my ramblings on the peninsula. I talk quite a bit about the Life Saving Service in the "Great Beach" chapter.

Regards, Austin

www.austingranger.com

[johnmsanderson]

just got this scanned

http://john-sanderson.com/files/Tree%20A%20Light.jpg

p.s. love that low horizon austin

[tgtaylor]

Speaking of Point Reyes, if you'll forgive the shameless plug, you might enjoy my ramblings on the peninsula. I talk quite a bit about the Life Saving Service in the "Great Beach" chapter.

www.austingranger.com

I read the chapter Austin and I must say that I like your writing as well as I do your photography which inspired me to revisit Point Reyes to try and produce a portfolio of images.

Have you given thought of self-publishing your work for sale at the Visitors Center?

Thomas

[Frank Bunnik]

Flooded river bank at Kerkdriel, the Netherlands, January 14 2011. I used a 210mm lens with a red filter at f/32. Exposed for a couple of seconds, Tmax400, post processed in Adobe Lightroom.

[Jiri Vasina]

Cemetery, above Schooner Bay, Point Reyes


Eucalyptus and Wind, Drake's Estero, Point Reyes



The Edge of the Bishop Pine Forest from Pierce Point Road, Point Reyes


www.austingranger.com

Austin, I have to come back to those images again and again... they grow on me so much... they are great...

Jiri

[sanchi heuser]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5169/5329099801_54bc734e45_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/58013730@N08/5329099801/)
Bellinzona #1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/58013730@N08/5329099801/) by andi_heuser (http://www.flickr.com/people/58013730@N08/), on Flickr


A shot from the river Fiume Ticino in southern Switzerland.
A tree was carried away by the flood and smashed against another tree.
Film was Polaroid 55.

[jp]

Eucalyptus and Wind, Drake's Estero, Point Reyes



Very nice; most original in this thread in a while.

[tgtaylor]

Personally I like the first and third image the best with #3 ranked first in my eye. I have driven past that view numerous times while admiring it but never stopping the car to take a photo. One day, though, I will. I promise.

Reading Austin's post http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=70058 provided the inspiration to begin visiting Pt. Reyes to create a B&W portfolio, which I have started to do, but this time in a more methodical manner instead of the randomness that have characterized my earlier trips. The idea sprung to mind to accompany the portfolio with a short treatise on natural history of the cape which is surely one of the most unique landscapes on the continent. And it's in motion!

Checking the bookstore at the Visitors Center I found just one photo book devoted to the peninsula - a well used coffee table style edition of excellent B&W images by a photographer whose name I do not now remember who apparently worked with a 35mm film camera.

Thomas

[austin granger]

Personally I like the first and third image the best with #3 ranked first in my eye. I have driven past that view numerous times while admiring it but never stopping the car to take a photo. One day, though, I will. I promise.

Reading Austin's post http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=70058 provided the inspiration to begin visiting Pt. Reyes to create a B&W portfolio, which I have started to do, but this time in a more methodical manner instead of the randomness that have characterized my earlier trips. The idea sprung to mind to accompany the portfolio with a short treatise on natural history of the cape which is surely one of the most unique landscapes on the continent. And it's in motion!

Checking the bookstore at the Visitors Center I found just one photo book devoted to the peninsula - a well used coffee table style edition of excellent B&W images by a photographer whose name I do not now remember who apparently worked with a 35mm film camera.

Thomas
Thomas, I think the photographer you're probably thinking of is Marty Knapp. http://martyknapp.com/ He has a gallery/store in Point Reyes Station you might check out next time you're there. He's a good photographer, and a nice guy, though I have to say, I was a was a little bummed when he came out with his book, as at the time I was shopping my own manuscript around and it felt like he beat me to the punch-ha! There is another book by Richard Blair and Kathleen Goodwin called Point Reyes Visions: http://pointreyesvisions.com/ which I believe was very successfully self-published. In any case though, the peninsula is photographically inexhaustible and in my opinion deserves all the odes it gets-bearing in mind of course that if it ever DOES get published, MY ode will be the definitive one! ;) Seriously though, Point Reyes is an extraordinary place, and it will get into you, as it does to all who wander there, very, very deeply.

I wish you the best as you embark on this journey. You are sure to have many adventures, and I look forward to hearing of them.
Austin
www.austingranger.com

[austin granger]

Thank you Jiri, John, and jp498 for your kind words on my pictures. I appreciate it very much.

Austin

[Jim Becia]

Image taken back in November near Cedar Breaks, UT with an Ebony 5x7. Jim

[mrladewig]

Sweet Jim. Awesome image!

[Preston]

Austin and Thomas,

I am really enjoying your Point Reyes work! My bride lived on the Inverness Ridge before we married, and we spent many hours enjoying the park and the adjacent area.

I also spent some time with Marty Knapp talking about photography and I have met Richard and Kathleen, as well. Nice folks who have done some very fine work there.

Your work has inspired me to go back to Point Reyes and work harder at making images there.

Keep them coming!

--P

[northcarolinajack]

I at last was able to get a photo uploaded. It is the tree in a good North Carolina snow, in a cemetery. This was made with my 8x10 Deardoff in the snow.
The photo I hope to upload here is a tree in the fog, made this summer from Beech Mountain, NC. Camera was my Super Graflex.

Jack

[tgtaylor]

Thanks Preston!

I've decided that the best weather for photography is an overcast day with a light fog. That combination gives the land a dreamy quality that is uniquely Point Reyes. So far I've had two good days but high pressure has set in so I'm on hold until the weather changes.

Thomas

[austin granger]

Summer afternoons are reliably foggy on Point Reyes. Here are some more trees:

Sunrise, Inverness Ridge, Point Reyes
http://austingranger.com/web/elegy/27-sunrise_inverness_ridge.jpg

www.austingranger.com

[Maris Rusis]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4111/5191313960_3d4b03686b_b.jpg
Storm Cleft Tree

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC111 VC FB, image area 24.6cm x 19.6cm, from a TriX Pan Professional negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD 8x10 triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.

[sanchi heuser]

Sunrise, Inverness Ridge, Point Reyes


Great!

[Jiri Vasina]

Storm Cleft Tree

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC111 VC FB, image area 24.6cm x 19.6cm, from a TriX Pan Professional negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD 8x10 triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.

Martin, what a wonderful image...

Jiri

[eduardtoader]

Image taken back in November near Cedar Breaks, UT with an Ebony 5x7. Jim

That´s beautifull Jim. I´m poor of words.

[GabrielSeri]

http://silverpiscis.com/Photography/LargeFormat/content/bin/images/large/RunningTreeWEB.jpg
http://silverpiscis.com/Photography/portfolio/joshtrees.bmp

[Frank Bunnik]

A road flooded by the IJssel river (near Doesburg, the Netherlands) January 15 2011. I used Tmax400 rated at 200 iso and a 90mm lens (at f/45, exposed for 1 second) on a Technika.