White Sand Dunes, Plate VII
First of all, let me apologize for not posting my remaining photographs from White Sands National Monument as regularly as promised, but I’ve been busy with college graduation and finding a place to live in southeast Connecticut and moving back to Texas for a couple weeks. In any case, here ya go.
See the other photographs I made of White Sands National Monument and other destinations on my road trip across the Southwest United States last June here.
Nikon D40
18mm, f/8, 1/60 sec, ISO 200
White Sand Dunes, Plate VI
See the other photographs I made of White Sands National Monument and other destinations on my road trip across the Southwest United States last June here.
Nikon D40
52mm, f/5.6, 1/200 sec, ISO 200
White Sand Dunes, Plate IX
See the other photographs I’ve made of White Sands National Monument here.
Nikon D40
32mm, f/8, 1/400 sec, ISO 200
Free at Last, Free at Last
At approximately 3:22pm on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012, I finished my undergraduate studies. I left my last exam and felt pretty much exactly how the man in the photo did when this photograph was made.
You’ll have to excuse the quality of the image; I’ve recently set up a bellows and rail system to “scan” my film negatives by photographing the negatives using a dSLR and I haven’t quite perfected it just yet.
Zorki-4, 50mm, f/16, 1/125 sec
Ilford FP4+ 125, D-76
“Scanned” with Nikon D5100
White Sand Dunes, Plate V
As I’ve mentioned before, the true highlight of my road trip through the Southwest United States last June was White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. While I only had the one sunset to photograph the park, I’d like to think I made the most of it and walked away with a good number of strong photographs that I will post over the next couple days. I truly hope I was able to capture the majesty of White Sands National Monument well enough to do it justice.
Nikon D40
52mm, f/8, 1/320 sec, ISO 200
Redemption
As some of y’all may be aware, my experience with film photography began in April 2010 with a Holga 120N, a simple camera with no “real” controls. Over the past two years, my interest in analog photography has increased dramatically and my collection of film cameras have grown to include a Bronica ETRSi, a Mamiya C220, a Nikon F, and a Zorki-4.
While each of these cameras are different in format or use (645 SLR, 6x6 square waist-level, 35mm SLR, 35mm rangefinder), I found myself missing the sheer simplicity of a Holga, which I had long before dismantled. I found an Ansco Shur Shot camera for five bucks a couple months ago and simply couldn’t resist picking up a 50+ year old camera that still worked flawlessly.
The above photograph is notable in that it was taken in Boston in January of 2012 and instead of the snowfall we would normally expect, we see only recently fallen leaves.
Ansco Shur Shot
Ilford Delta 400 Pro, D-76 (1+1), 5.5min
Epson 4490
Through the Window to Hell
This photograph was made when I went roadtripping across the Southwestern United States back in the summer of 2011.
This photograph was taken at Big Bend National Park, a “Texas-sized” national park that lies in the Southwest Texas. The park encompasses over 800,000 acres and borders on approximately 244 miles of the 1000-miles of the USA-Mexico made by the Rio Grande. Big Bend National Park is considered to be one of the largest, most remote, and least visited national parks in the lower United States. For what it’s worth, it’s not hard to see why- it was 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 C) when I made this photograph.
Nikon D40
120mm, f/8, 1/1000 sec, ISO 200
Looking to a Yesterday Not Yet Come
This photograph was made when I went roadtripping across the Southwestern United States back in the summer of 2011.
This photograph was taken at Monument Valley, a Navajo indian reservation just north of the Arizona/Utah border. The drive through the park is surprisingly rough and, personally, I wouldn’t recommend taking a Dodge Grand Caravan through it. It should not, however, be ignored all together as many of the great formations at Monument Valley can’t be seen from any other angle.
Nikon D40
55mm, f/8, 1/320 sec, ISO 200
The Passing of One and A Second Coming
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
As I mentioned in my last post, my D40 will not be coming back to me as the repair facility was not able to replace the rear LCD due to an 18-month-old crack (that I’ve never once cared about). Incidentally, from what I was told, they were able to fix the red channel issue. In any case, because they weren’t able to fully repair the D40, they offered to replace it. So as I alluded to in my last post, there’s always a silver lining. In my case, it’s a brand new Nikon D5100. (As of yet, she’s still unnamed.) I’ll try to get the remainder of the D40 photos in the queue before I start posting the new stuff. I still have a great many photos left to post from my road trip across the Southwest United States last summer.
Nikon D40
85mm, f/4, 1/200 sec, ISO 200
A Final Farewell
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
So as some of you may remember from about a month ago, my D40’s red channel stopped functioning. Luckily, it was still covered, but unfortunately, they were not able to fully repair it. All is not lost, however, as there’s always a silver lining…
Nikon D40
85mm, f/4, 1/1000 sec, ISO 200
