Boston, February 2019
Boston, February 2019
Tulip, March 2018
I don't know if this is an appropriate interpretation of a Tulip: it feels a bit more like Stonehenge.
That tulip is beautiful, Ken! And I always love photographs of interesting doors.
I dream in black and white.
Speaking of doors, I recently returned from the UK, where I visited Leeds Castle. I shot these with my handheld Minolta Autocord TLR, using T-Max 100, stand developed in Rodinal.
I dream in black and white.
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
Yesterday I did a 6-mile loop, summiting Blood Mountain - the 6th tallest mountain in GA and the tallest on the Appalachian Trail in GA - and then looping around the Freeman Trail, a very difficult scramble through rocks and rain run-off. This is a pretty brutal hike and last time I did it I carried my 8x10. That was pretty dumb but also the light sucked that day. Yesterday it was pretty good in the morning. I brought my Century Graphic and my Widelux F7. Here's two Widelux shots:
I keep day-dreaming about what I would bring on an AT through-hike and while I want to shoot larger formats I actually think nothing but the Widelux might be the "right" answer for low weight and more unique images than a standard camera.
DSLR, then DNG to your heart's content once you got back home? (Of course, with your Century and 6x12 RFB, you could crop to 1:2.5 and still have that 6x9 "quantum" I was obsessing over a while back.)
At any rate, a couple of very nice shots--which (unfortunately) would no doubt make spectacular Pt/Pd prints.
Bryan, I encourage you to hike the AT, I never will now, but I have read some very interesting first person experiences.
My big adventure was riding a motorbike from Skyline Drive & down the Blue Ridge Parkway in 1978. I camped with bicyclists as often as possible to lower costs.
I rode exactly the speed limit unlike most. I had to pull over all the time to let motorhomes roar by.
Some day sometimes never comes.
I think a DSLR is too big, get a hot rod mirrorless or not.
Send film home like Greg Hindy did, I think his father, Carl stored the 4X5 film in a bank. Greg stayed with me 3 days while we fixed his trailer. He shot a lot of 4X5, both color and B&W.
Here Greg is on THE TREK a hiking site. https://thetrek.co/guy-walked-9000-m...break-silence/
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