This is a throwback image to my trip to the Faroe Islands last year. I really debated whether to pay to do the guided hike out to this rock but am so glad that I did. It really was one of the highlights of that trip and I made so many images from there. But I never like dumping tons of redundant or reiterative images all at once, so I think I have only posted one or two of my Drangarnir photos here on Flickr (or elsewhere for that matter).

Anyway, life has been busy but that is to be expected for December and for a job in retail. It very much is a sprint to the finish experience. But we are almost there. I just wanted to take a moment to take a breath and post an image.

Hasselblad 500C
Kodak Portra 400

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A mini ode to the wonderful worlds found at our feet all over the place. In this particular instance, at the beach. I love the sketches that time and tide make at the sea shore.

Canon AE-1
Fujifilm 400

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So, this photo came from a simple enough wondering on my part: how would it look if I used the rise function on my camera to make a photo of a tree without converging verticals? You know, an architecturally "correct" tree image. I have certainly gone the other way, using the upper "risen" pinhole on my Reality So Subtle 6x6 combined with that camera's wide field of view and a judicious forward tilt to instill diverging verticals in tree images. But I don't believe I have ever used rise and a parallel-facing camera to make a picture of a tree without converging or diverging verticals. It was an interesting experiment and there is something about the portrait of this tree and how it turned out I quite like.

Reality So Subtle 6x6 Dual Pinhole (upper pinhole)
Fomapan 200

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"I have before now experienced, that the best way to get a vivid impression and feeling of landscape, is to sit down before it and read, or become otherwise absorbed in thought; for then, when your eyes happen to be attracted to the landscape, you seem to catch Nature at unawares, and see her before she has time to change her aspect. The effect lasts but for a single instant, and passes away almost as soon as you are conscious of it; but it is real, for that moment. It is as if you could overhear and understand what the trees are whispering to one another; as if you caught a glimpse of a face unveiled, which veils itself from every wilful glance. The mystery is revealed, and after a breath or two, becomes just as much a mystery as before."
--Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nikon FM2n
Silberra Pan 50

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A recent trip out to the coast to clear my head of the spinning humdrum of work saw me at the north end of Cannon Beach contemplating which roll of film was going to take the place of my just-finished Bergger Pancro 400. My hand came out of my film bag holding a roll of Kodak E100 and I thought, "this or Portra 160?" Color negative, or color positive? I love slide film, but I don't work with it much. A big part of this is the scarcity of Fuji Velvia, my preferred chrome film. Another part of this is cost. A third part is that scans from slides always seem a bit pale in comparison to the original slide. I guess a fourth part is that E100 is a little too normal in its saturation for my tastes. But despite these reasons, I actually love shooting slide film, both for its results but also its process. Knowing I am working with a film that requires a bit more care and thought from me in gauging exposure makes me slow down and eye the scene. With color negative I just have to be close and if I have any doubt, I add a stop or two of exposure since it forgives it so readily. Color slide has a much narrower window and shows your failures more prominently. But doing a roll of slide now and again is a good way to stay on one's toes and make sure that their metering process really is precise. I don't mind that routine honing of my skills, so to speak. And that is how and where this image came about. I should also add that I spotted this reflection before the family moved into the scene. I could tell walking up to the tide pool I was going to enjoy the low angled symmetry I would find here. And then the family came along. My first reaction was "Drat, wouldn't you know it". But my second, more measured reaction, was "Hold on a sec and see what they do". In then end I think they made the scene more interesting for me and I exposed three images of them moving along the beach as their own photographer made portraits of them.

Hasselblad 500C/M
Kodak E100

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