Mexico

South of the border... Warm weather, Great food, beautiful landscapes and friendly people... And great spiders.

Phothog

(The next post re:Mexico won't be so myopic)

Lemolo Falls

Location: Lemolo Falls
Camera:50D
Lens:17-40L @17mm
ISO:100
Tripod:Slik U212 w/Manfrotto 322RC2 head

Random Harvest II

Random Harvest

My neck of the woods

The Bugs of Summer (2011)

Priorities

I am going to toss a few shots on the blog from this summer before I get to Mexico.

Patience.

Phothog

The Dancing Stars

Canon 50D
17-40L@17mm
f/7.1
ISO 320

Old cameras and film II

Looking at the tonal range of my recently developed film, I am pleased with the way the highlights hold very well. I have long known that digital sensors can't handle this aspect as well as film but it is fun to see it first hand.

Also the Walgreen digitizing process uses a NORITSU KOKI 1.5 Mp camera...

Pretty lame.

Not acceptable.

If I work with film I can't exactly use something that is such low quality(What is this? 2003?)

Anyway the "really old camera" I mentioned before is a Argus C3. This a post-war model apparently sometime between 1946-58. I ran a roll of Kodak Gold 200... It is a completely manual camera. Manual focus. Manual winding. Manual aperture. Manual shutter speed. It was really fun. Especially to see that I got the exposure right dead on where I wanted it.

I want to put some Velvia through this! I've put two rolls of T-Max through... And no one can develop it locally >:(

I am also messing with the idea of processing my own film... This is not super high priority... But I keep you posted.

Gorge-ous Falls

Horsetail Falls and Multnomah Falls

  Using a mini tripod (Gorillapod SLR) I captured Horsetail falls: 17mm, 1/3sec, f/20, ISO 125.

Using my full sized tripod (Slik w/Manfrotto ball head) I captured Multnomah Falls. This picture is a composite of two shots(stitched together with Hugin). Both shots were taken at 17mm, 0.6sec, f22, ISO 100.

Oregon! 2

 Just a couple of snaps from along the Gorge.  I have some waterfall pictures from this trip, but they will get their own post!

This concludes the States! (Until I hit some new ones anyway!)








PhotHog

Wash!ngton

 Washington was supposed to be a drive through state... However there was road construction... And a detour.
That sent  the road winding deep into the Umatilla National Forest. And then no more detour. "Where did the signs go?" So 2am, lost in the Umatilla wilderness and the GPS has limited reception...! After some hours of backtracking and going along horribly maintained dirt roads it was apparent that Washington refused to be called a drive through state!

 The next morning driving along the Gorge I was glad I was able to actually see it!(Although an Oregonian for the last 20 years I had yet to see the Gorge!)

!daho

Idaho was a drive through state. Beautiful and completely different from the proceeding states!

Montana!

Ok... The States! are nearly done! After this Idaho and Washington remain. Then I have some waterfall pics and after that Mexico!(Baja).