#HolgaWeek No. 4 An Abstraction

#HolgaWeek No.3: Toros Curiosos

Toros Curiosos is a public sculpture placed in a field that used to have cattle I'm sure.   The Toros are now along a path between two strip malls.   More "Paved Paradise".

#HolgaWeek No.2

Continuing the Theme, I shot two rolls of Fuji NPC Expired Film for Holga Week.

An Interesting Construction Site in Downtown Boulder; Housing for At Risk Youth.

Required moving a Historic Home to build an underground garage......

#HolgaWeek No.1

Taken with Fuji NPC (ISO 160) Expired Film.

Found Some Older Photos.....From the Canonet

I found some older Photos taken with the Canonet, that I apparently never posted (or somewhere along the line I mislabeled them).  In any case they are presented now:

At Brainerd Lake, Peak to Peak Highway, above Boulder, Colorado.

Maundy Thursday

Arches Sunset

We say goodbye for now to Arches and Moab.  I will return in a few weeks with comparisons of film scans vs. prints.  Next Week we'll move on to a new subject.

Arches Color Crops

Only shot 2 rolls of color film.  Sunsets our last day in Moab.  I like this one the best:

I doubt if few people at Balanced Rock ever focus on the other rocks in the view finder.  But I like this perspective.  This also works, isolating the group of rocks:

See original full frame below:

Saturday's Online: Kodak Alaris and Lomography Join Forces!

The Death of film photography is way over done!  Let's just let everyone do what makes them Happy and stop talking about it!  If you like film you need to use it to keep it around, end of discussion.  Seems like enough people do like film.  So Lomography has joined forces with the surviving UK Kodak brand, Kodak Alaris, to sell film and paper through its website.

I've played with the Lomo Fisheye a bit.....But I'm really more of a Holga Fan when it comes to Lo-Fi Photography:

(These were actually taken with FujiPrint Film)

Vintage Camera News: Old Cameras Return and New Films are Tested

First, we can't start without a Photo:

Me and the kids on a recent visit to Independence Pass.

Lot's of film testing going on.  I'm still searching for that color transparency film to replace Kodak E100GX.  Since that's long gone, we are testing against E100VS (which was recently also discontinued, but still available).

We've tested E100Vs vs Fuji Velvia 50 and found that it was OK for 120 film, but I don't want to be restricted to carrying a tripod when I shoot 35 mm.  So the Testing continues for a faster 35mm alternative.

I've completed another 120 transparency film test, this time a retro film that is available again:  Agfa CR 200 Digibase, that is now produced by Rollei.  The film is currently being developed, results sometime next week.

Still in the camera is our test of Fuji Provia 100F for 35 mm;  coming up soon Fuji Provia 400.

On another Note, the Canonet is back and currently we are using it to test Rollei Crossbird C-41 cross processing film..  Have any of you tried this?

Also on the developing deck, experiments with Infrared B&W film.  I'm keeping it cool while I mix (and age a bit) some D76 developer.

Any suggestions for films to test are appreciated.  Now let me stop procrastinating and go mix that D76.

Film Test Part II: Add some Fuji?

I know, not fair double teaming........But I happened to have some Fuji Superia 200 (their cheap film) in the Kodak Pocket Camera and decided why not shoot the same scene.  So here we go, results not a cut and dry as the first, but the Ektar green is still not the actual green of my lawn and foliage; neither is the Fuji.  So you know who wins by a hair.....E100VS.

First the Fuji Superia 200:

Next Kodak Ektar 100:

And the winner by a hair, E100VS:

Ektar and the Fuji film are more similar.  Both are colder films (e.g. notice the color of the pavement in the background).  Now the pavement isn't pinkish either, but the over all color balance of the E100VS is still truer to life.

Faith On Film: More Sacred Circles

Labyrinths are symbols of spiritual journeys first appearing in Christianity in the 12th Century.

Labyrinth at First United Methodist Church, Boulder

And represent a modern focus of meditative worship........

Labyrinth at RMCC

Peru Creek #5: Towards Argentine Pass

Around the corner and over the ridge was another famous mining district at Argentine Pass.  We'll take a look at that area next week.

Peru Creek #4: Tram System Station

You can see the traces of the rails that carried the ore out to the tram.  Here it was dumped into the tram cars and carried to the mill.

You can see the tippings from the mine above the tram station.  Tippings are the waste rock adjacent to the mine entrance.  Tailings are the leftovers from the Stamp Mill process.  In some cases early mills were so inefficient that the tailings could be reprocessed for ore metals.

Peru Creek #3

Near the drift of the Pennsylvania Mine; beginning of the tram system tht transported ore down the mountain to the stamp mill.

Peru Creek Mining District

The Pennsylvania Mine was the largest and most profitable in this mining district........

Pennsylvania Mine Stamp Mill: focus of a major clean up effort.  Silver sulfides mined here have resulted in a largest regional source of acid mine drainage. A remediation project is underway.

Across the valley from the Stamp Mill.

Going Off Road

This week we are going off road in the Front Range......

Textures

Granite from Eldorado Canyon

Weekly Volcano #27: Broken Top, Oregon Cascades

 

Broken Top is located near Bend, Oregon. 

A place i used to enjoy, but now I'e heard it has been over-run by wealthy retirees.

The 'top' isn't broken, just deeply eroded.  It is part of a four volcano cluster.

Denver Botanical Gardens

Currently hosting an exhibition of Henry Moore's sculpture through January 2011.

Denver Botanical Gardens