In the Garden with Ilford HP5: Final Shots

Yucca Baccata Seed Pods

In the Garden with Ilford HP5: #7

In the Garden with Ilford HP5: #6

In the Garden with Ilford HP5: #5

In the Garden with Ilford HP5: A Double Shot

In the Garden with Ilford HP5: #3

In the Garden with Ilford HP5: #2

In the Garden with Ilford HP5: #1

Starting a single shot series of some wonderful results shooting HP5 in my Garden:

Color or B&W?

Kodak ColorPlus 200:

I'm starting to experiment again with B&W Flowers.......Ilford HP5:

And Also a Kodak E100 white Flower (a bit cold fro my taste):

Ilford HP5 Personal Review

We pick up with HP5 where we ended with FP4, at the Natural Bridge:

I had lost track of my FP4 roll being only 24 exposures.  I had this one last shot that I wanted to take and was out of FP4.  But I had my trusty extra roll in the camera bag: HP5.  So I got the shot that I wanted.  I'll be making more trips back to the natural bridge, so I'll be re-shooting with the Mamiya-7 and T-MAX 400.

Then I made a few more images at the Mayo Clinic Phoenix Cactus Garden:

Above, a barrel cactus, but barely in view.  

Below, zooming through the 'cactus window' for a closer look.

A final image of a statue honoring the Spirit of the Native Inhabitants, given to the Clinic by a grateful patient:

I'll remake tis image with the M7 also.

Starting the Ilford Party

If you were following the #filmjune updates..........There was a final twist.  They picked two winners who were presented with lots of Ilford Film.  So I've loaded up my classic Mamiya 645 1000s and we are ready for the Ilford Film Summer Party!

Look for updates coming soon.......

Final Catch-up #5 #filmjune

Final Posts Summary the Twitter #filmjune series

26. Dream Camera and Ilford Film Collaboration:
My Dream Camera: Any Rollei 6000-Series Medium Format SLR in collaboration with Ilford SFX-200 Film.

Here's a review of the camera: https://www.casualphotophile.com/2017/10/06/rollei-6008-professional-medium-format-slr-camera-review/

27.  Have you ever used Zone focusing?
I have used zone focusing, especially in street photography.  But also using it as I test my Mercury camera.  Still learning to use the focusing screen, so sometimes I just go with my estimated distances.

28. Are you a fine grained photographer, or the more grain the better?
I'm a fine grain photographer.  That's why I've never liked HP5 or Tri-X.  The grain just doesn't appeal to me.

29. Have you bought a camera that has been on your wish list?
Yes, I always wanted a Press Camera.  But I didn't have to buy it, our neighbor gave us his Burke and James Press Camera!

30. Have You taught anyone film photography?
No, but I did bring my Husband back from the digital abyss and into the 'Light' of Film Photography again. The last time he picked up his DSLR the dates on the images showed that he hadn't used it in months.  He now favors his Mamiya 6 and Intrepid 4X5.  Saving the analogue world one person at a time!

Sources of Power

I may have mentioned a new/current photographic project capturing images of the Boulder Power Plant, whose stacks are visible from many parts of the County:

But there are increasingly Alternative Power Sources appearing around town.  

So we will take a look at those too, and expand the Project to documenting alternative energy.

This particularly striking solar panel installation at Mountain View United Methodist Church, Boulder.  There are lots of solar panel installations going up, many sponsored by local government.  More on that as the Power Plant Project proceeds.

52 Rolls Week #10

52 Rolls Project Week #10 finds us at some old and current government installations.  Traveling the backroads of Boulder County we came upon a NOAA research site:

Continuing A Theme: The Power Plant Project

You've seen this before in many images of the Indian Peaks:

Above a Photomerge of 3 - 35mm images from 2012.  The Project proposal is to photograph from every location around Boulder where the smoke stacks from this Power Plant are visible.  And it's visible from a lot of interesting places.

So why another Project?  Because it would get really boring just photographing one thing all the time.  I know some people do that.  But it wouldn't work for me.  I have a third Project to propose.  and then we are off and running.  Of course my posts will not be limited to these three projects.......

Tech Info for This Project:
Minolta XD-11
Ilford HP5 Film (ISO 400)
Tamron 28-200 Zoom Lens

The Marade: We Are All Baltimore

The Marade: Speaking Truth to Power

Or where the Power really Lies:

The Mayor of Denver had refused to speak to the Crowd, because he objected to the presence of 'Black Lives Matter".  He was eventually 'shamed' out of City Hall to speak, 

but arrived with body guards.

The Marade #3: I'm on the Side of Justice

Are You?

Black (& Brown) History: The Marade for Jessica

Some disturbing events have occurred in Denver, and the media has completely ignored it.  The Denver Police and the Denver Sheriffs Office pay out millions of $$$$$ each year in wrongful death settlements.  But in all the discussions of Police Shootings, Denver never comes up in the conversation.  And I ask myself why?

One instance that particularly disturbed me was the Death of Jessica Hernandez:

Perhaps because she was a teenage girl doing a typically stupid teenager thing (driving a stollen car).  But I don't think you should die for being a teenager, doing something that white teenagers do everyday and get a slap on the hand for. 

Yes Jessica, REST IN POWER!

The Marade #2: A Little Irony?

The grave markers in Remembrance of those killed by the Police Across America in 2015.  A not so ironic juxtaposition of these markers with the statue honoring all the Native Tribes forcibly removed from Colorado.