Some days you see the ocean. Some days you don't.

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And the last image from the North Fork project, just because the world needs more vertical panos. This slice of the dam brought to you courtesy of a hand-held Fuji 617. That's right, been doing more hand-held stuff with that beast. Next up is close focus, shallow depth of field work. We'll see how that goes.

Now I get to figure out which of these images I'll be printing and framing for the exhibit. I have an idea it will be a pinhole image. But it would be neat to make a really tall print of this image...

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Relative to say... the Hoover Dam or other such dams. Of course, relative to me, or my car, it is pretty vast. So this view, to give you a bit of the sense of scale for some of the other images to follow. Again, you can see the power house in the bottom middle of the frame. The dam backs water up behind it where the weight of the water forces it through pipes at the base of the dam which spin the turbines, creating electricity. Unlike the other powerhouses I visited, the turbines here are outside the powerhouse under those giant metal cylinders. Behind those cylinders you can see the various transformers. If you look straight up the dam from there you can see the base of what are giant cranes. Whenever they need to work on a turbine they lift the covers off with those cranes to get at the turbine itself. Those cranes also marked the boundary of a sensitive area on the top of the dam for us. We were allowed to stop above the transformers and photograph over the edge but we couldn't use a tripod or any metal easels or chairs there, for if they fell over the edge and landed on a transformer and bridged the gap between wires.... well just remember what happens when you cross the beams. So when we were working in that area, we had to lay our tripods down well away from the edge before doing any photography.

Off to the left you can see the massive spillways, only one of which was open at the time to relieve pressure from backed up water that cannot be displaced by normal dam operations. The road to the powerhouse runs through a tunnel under this spillway, which is a pretty interesting experience to walk with all that water rushing over your head.

The dam was too big even for the Fuji 617. This shows only about 2/3 of the dam itself as I am standing on the far sweeping edge looking back across.

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Gah, this one was a pain to work on. Let me tell you this, photographing through two 9-stop ND filters for an hour onto a piece of film does weird things to the color, particularly when you are photographing straight into the sun. But that is as far as I am going to get into that. Instead, I'm going to go out into the backyard and do some flower macro while said sun is still in the sky and let you enjoy this image.

It was an hour long exposure starting from sunrise, by the way.

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I figured since I posted the other three images from this roll, I might as well share the fourth. Four exposures, four keepers. Not often I operate a 100% efficiency, but it is easier to be a bit more thoughtful and disciplined when you only get four exposures a roll.

This was how we spent Mother's Day, by the way. In other words, beautifully.

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