Large Format Landscapes

[Cursor Major]

Beautiful shot of a beautiful place. I was just there a couple of weeks ago, but did not have a large format camera. I climbed Great Gable, the middle mountain in your picture. Thanks for posting.

Thank you David, appreciate the kind comments.

[jon.oman]

Early Morning, Shepard State Park - Gautier, Mississippi

Summers in Mississippi bring lots of rain, and consequently lots of humidity. When I take my lenses out first thing, they instantly fog up from the humidity compared to my car. I wipe them down and get to shooting. I've often thought it would be interesting to see how they image with the fogged glass. This time, I guess the inside surface was also very foggy or re-fogged and so I got my test, unintentionally. I like the result.

Mercury 4x5, 47mm XL, TMX, FX-39:

Very nice!

[Corran]

Thanks guys.

Vaughn, I think I caught it at just the right time. I couldn't hardly see an image on the GG with all the wetness. A few more seconds and it probably would've just been a grey mess of a photograph. Serendipity.

[Jerry Bodine]

Mercury 4x5, 47mm XL, TMX, FX-39:

Bryan, this is an amazing image. I choose to see the converging trees as looking to the Almighty in the brilliant heavens. Very well done.

[Ben Calwell]

Gulf Islands National Seashore - Ocean Springs, Mississippi
Korona/Deardorff 8x20, 305mm f/9 G-Claron, Ilford HP5+, HC-110 dil. H, 10:00 @ 21C

I love that image.

[Corran]

Thank you Jerry and Ben.

Jerry, your comments are especially interesting - last week I was having a discussion with a very religious family member about The Church. I mentioned how I feel when out photographing in nature, about how experiencing the world is my own personal church. That morning, the park was completely empty save for me and my camera. I enjoy those mornings the most.

[Jerry Bodine]

...last week I was having a discussion with a very religious family member about The Church. I mentioned how I feel when out photographing in nature, about how experiencing the world is my own personal church...

I know that you and I are not alone in these feelings. I was very active in my support of the movement to create one of Washington State's designated Wilderness areas, encompassing my very favorite place where I always felt surrounded by "cathedral" spires. One of my co-workers who had just returned from a trek in the Chilean Andes at about 20,000 ft was sharing his experience with me, and I asked him how he would describe it in a word. He said "religious." So now, lest we OFFEND some folks, we return to our photos.

[CreationBear]

Ocean Springs, Mississippi

All I can say is that having lived in all the states contiguous with it, you wouldn't be alone in thanking the Deity for Mississippi...

Seriously, though--as much as I love the Southern Highlands, you're making me think that the Maritime Forest is really the Happy Hunting Grounds for you ULF-er's.

[Corran]

Thanks CB. Lately I have been thinking that there are an awful lot of good photographers down in Florida, shooting large format no less, so what am I bringing to the table that isn't already being done by the likes of Clyde Butcher, John Brady, etc.? But south Mississippi - there's a huge, beautiful area that seems ripe for the picking. The Pascagoula River watershed is a truly spectacular area.

I just need a boat.

[Corran]

Dead Palmettos

Chamonix 45n1, 150mm APO Symmar, TMX, FX-39, dev'd N+1