Planet Randy

5×7 Ilford HP5+
D-76
Scanned

5×7 Ilford HP5+
D-76
Scanned

5×7 Ilford HP5+
D-76
Scanned

A quick snap from Judiciary Square in Washingon, DC – the memorial honors those in law enforcement who gave their lives in the line of duty.

A nearing dusk shot of the US Capitol. Lot’s of digi-snappers and got harassed by a couple of Japanese tourist about film. I eased their concerns by inviting them to look at the Hassy’s finder.

Night shot of the US Monument. Cropped to 2.5 ratio from 6×6.

This was visualized by my wife and she told me to press the button. She also gave me permission to try it on lith.

Work sent me to DC for a demo a couple of weeks ago. I called our Congresswoman’s DC office to see if they can give us a tour of the Capitol. A few people wondered why I was laying on floor, if they only new what I saw on the “blad’s” ground glass. The lighting was quite dim so I had to compromise on shutter speed and DOF – best I can do without a tripod.

More to come…

Going through some Tonopah scans and thought this might be a good candidate for Ilford’s Warmtone paper and Moersch MT3 Vario Thiourea toning. It’s from a 5×7 negative but I think I prefer a square cropping. Perhaps next week when my paper arrives.

Mexico is such a beautiful country I’d love to visit this place again, but unfortunately the on going cartel problems down south makes me apprehensive.

This was taken  a couple of years ago with an old Zeiss Ikonta rangefinder 6×9 folding camera.

After seeing the documentary on Julius Shulman (Visual Acoustics) and seeing some of his early photographs of the  LA river bridge makes me want to go shoot downtown more. I love the story on how he photographed the Stahl House “Case Study House #22” – even in architecture photography there are decisive moments. One day I’ll visit this spectacular house. I digress…

Here’s a shot of the tower on 4th street bridge. Next time I hope to get better morning light.

View of the 6th Street Bridge from 4th Street. Maybe one day I’ll be brave enough to go down the L.A. river those power lines do get in the way.

Ugh… I can’t wait to get my dark room up and  running again!

Somewhere off I-10 to Arizona on an 18 hour drive to and from Phoenix to pick up a Durst L184 with a color head. Yes, another Durst and M asked if I was going to buy every Durst I see; I said, “only if it’s bigger than the L184“. Hahaha…

It’s nice to be greeted by this fall after a 1.5 mile muddy hike.

Recent discussions on LFP forum prompted me to play with this image I took coming back from an 18 hour round trip drive from Phoenix, Arizona.

Here’s the view a few yards from our hotel last May. Negative scan for now and by looking at the film density it’s a prime candidate for  split grade printing. Once I get my darkroom up and running I’ll give this one a go.

One early and foggy morning at L.A.’s Sixth Street Viaduct.