A shot of the Twin Falls, Idaho LDS Temple - upon driving by I always love the presentation of this scene - and go figure - I'm Catholic. We can all live in harmony; right ?!?
Shot with the Nikon D3s and the 80-200mm f2.8 AF-s lens - yes - it's digital... I know right - how crazy can this post even get...
Shot in Twin Falls Idaho a few years back — film on a Nikon F100 / 35mm. I don’t shoot 35mm much very often - but I’m trying to change that and work it more. Stand development of Rodinal at 5% with a 60 minute burn and then scanned on a Minolta dimage.
No crop.
This last Thursday, while in a Twin Falls Idaho Starbucks, I picked up the the local Times-News, news paper. And, I saw a lead in with the acronym “-WTF”. I about blew my mouth full of coffee all over myself and my wife - who was sitting next to me.
My mind was really blown — like — totally blown. How does this happen I thought - how… just how. And — how would I explain this acronym to a child when they asked for the meaning, if I had too.
So — I sent a letter to the editor of the Times-News. And - I’ve heard no response - just as I thought would happen.
I will never read that publication again - as I was insulted.
This was in Hagerman Idaho. It was one of those days where I had the time to shoot but I had to dig really deeply to find anything -- really -- anything to shoot. I walked out side from the house - about 100 yards away and this scene appeared. And I decided to make it work and capture it as best as i could manage. Shot on Portra 400 with the Nikon F100.
A quick shot of the falls - at Twin Falls - known as the Niagara of the West. Shot with the Rollei 6008i with Fujifilm Acros 100 and processed with a stand development using Rodinal with a dilution for a 60 minute processing time.
Fujifilm Acros 100 - Rodinal 60minute stand development - Rollei 6008i
M's sister's English Bulldog - while we were in Northern Idaho on a camping trip. She's about 60lbs. and is a beast - but a friendly, gentle, nice beast. We have here sister, Lola - and she's just the same in her actions !
Shot with the Nikon 1 V1 and the 30-110mm. - I know -- digital... how weird ?!?
M with her Mother and Sister - while exploring in Central Idaho. I'm a big fan of Idaho - great things have happened to me in that State.
Nikon 1 V1 - Central Idaho 2016
Shot on a Rollei 6008i, mid Summer of 2015 with Ilford Delta 400 - early morning to capture the dramatic angle of the sun. Home developed and home scanned with a Nikon LS-8000.
There is a lot going on in this scene - and I'm happy with it's outcome.
At the time these were taken - mid October, I didn’t give them much thought - but I had the idea the complicated scenes “may” come out as something decent. So I tromped out and took pictures of chickens in Twin Falls, Idaho; my Brother-in-Law’s place.
All were shot with the V1 and the 18.5mm (50mm equivalent) and most times I don’t second guess my lens choices and stay with one. Most of the time it is for convenience, but then the convenience factor becomes a creative factor. It is what it is.
Upon developing I used Nikon ViewNX, as the NX-d kept crashing and I didn’t need NX-d’s noise correction. After cooking them out I brought them into LR-5 for the lens corrections. Since these were all web - I pushed to .jpg vs. .tiff and cooked them out again in LR in order to watermark.
All corrections were in ViewNX and the color profile was a factory Vivid or Portrait with a boost in contrast - Sharpening is a bit powerful in ViewNX so I keep the slider at 2-4 depending on what the image can absorb and rarely do I go past 5.
It’s kindof a pain - but that’s the work flow.
The more I look at these the more I love them - the framing, the subject, the colors - not trying to toot my own horn here - but it’s taken me years to be able to view my own work and consider it viable as decent and something to share. I maybe print one or two of these 13x19 on aluminum.
I guess the lesson learned here is being able to force the capture of the photo. I had no intention of taking pics of chickens that day — none. But I had the gear - and some how - I came away with some interesting images.
This is the Twin Falls Idaho LDS Temple spire. Quite dramatic with the mid afternoon light and then converted to b/w.
I was testing my 300mm lens - and it really turned out well - it would be well suited for a "Cover" or editorial copy.
No crop.
Nikon 1 V1 - 30-110mm
Yesterday we ventured to the wind farms of Hagerman, Idaho.
Hagerman is known for sportfishing on the Snake river and the production of Sturgeon Caviar.
Recently the potato fields in what is called the Bench have been abandoned and now those fields are populated by wind Turbines.
