Night time in Boulder

Night time in Boulder

Stairs to nowhere; Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge

Picnic Tables; Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge

Landora Lake, Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge

Denver State Capital

Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships

henna tattoo

Lost and found

I was out a few weeks ago looking for things to shoot for a class I'm taking. This got me exploring roads I hadn't bothered going down before. Found this at the end of one of those roads. Liked the collection of forms it made.

Silos #4

Silos #3

Silos #2

Empty spaces 2

Empty spaces

I'm working on a project where I photograph places that would normally be filled with people, but are empty. This is a hockey rink in a nearby town.

 

Silos

A collection of grain silos that were part of a feed store at the edge of Lafayette. These silos are all that is left of the store. The main building was recently torn down to make way for more houses.

Virginia City Montana Adobe

An old adobe meeting house in Virginia City Montana. Photographed in early morning light. It was hard to get this structure without cars parked in front of it.

Photographer’s Formulary Barn

The Photographer’s Formulary in Montana has this great barn. I had intended to make a few shots, but time and the light got away from me and only make this one. Its dusk and the light is fading.

Forest at Swan Lake

Two takes on the forest around Swan Lake. the first is digital IR, while the second is black and white film.

Swan Lake in Black and White

As a reprise to yesterday's post, here is yesterday's location in traditional B&W.

Holland Lake

Spent a week in Montana at a B&W Photography/Printing workshop led by Nathan McCreery, and hosted at the Photographer’s Formulary. We focused on shooting and printing B&W film. The Photographer’s Formulary has a full darkroom at their facility with professional grade printers. Learned a new way to shoot using the zone system and a spotmeter, developed many rolls and sheets of film. 

 The biggest lesson learned here is that making a good negative to print is much harder than making a negative that scans well. I’d been pretty happy with the results from scaning my negatives the last couple of years. It was only when I tried to print some of these that I realized that they weren’t actually exposed as well as I thought. This experience has gotten me to realize that I need to be more careful with my exposures and need to make physical prints more often.


This image was made at Holland Lake near sunset.

The photograph was made with my B&J 4×5 press camera, 150 mm lens, Ilford Delta Pro 100 film, developed in Ilford DD-X developer and scanned on an Epson V700 flatbed scanner.