Category: Film

Soft Focus / High Contrast / Low Key

Soft Focus / High Contrast / Low Key (1)

The top photo shows the Point Wilson Lighthouse and Admiralty Inlet into Puget Sound. The clouds are hiding Mt Baker in the Cascades. The lower photo shows the ramp that was used for moving a searchlight out to the edge of the bluff to watch for enemy ships (pre-WWI). Both were taken from Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend.

While these are taken with my Nikon FM3a on Tri-X film (and processed in a professional lab), I get scans back from the lab that I work on in Lightroom on my computer. I liked the treatment here of having large areas of solid black … and the interesting silhouettes.

Soft Focus / High Contrast / Low Key (2)
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Dosewallips Road/Trail

Dosewallips Road/Trail

Still haven’t heard any late news about the future of the Dosewallips Road. This is in the Olympic National Forest and there is a washout blocking the road about 1/2 mile from this location. This road provides the only road access to the Dosewallips Campground. It’s a 6 mile hike in to the camp at this point … but the campground and surroundings are in Olympic National Park. The different jurisdictions make the problem solving way more difficult. The Forest doesn’t want to pay for the road repair (which has to be done in such a way as to have no negative impact on the river and its salmon habitat) … and any bypass would be partially on private land … another complication.

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Old Trucks

Old Truck 1

These trucks are all found in the same area. They make a nice set, but you need a lot of space if you are going to keep old trucks and not have them right next to each other. These were shot on Portra 400 with my Nikon FM3a … one of the last film cameras that Nikon offered … and the only one of the last, best Nikons to have manual focusing.

Old Truck 2
Old Truck 3
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Backlit Moss

Backlit Moss

I was visiting an old friend and walking around his property when we all noticed the sun shining through the moss coating the trees. This may need you to click on the image to get a bigger version to really notice it … but it was quite a nice effect.

Taken with my medium format Pentax 634N camera on Kodak Portra 400 film.

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Cloudscape

Cloudscape

This was taken from the waterfront at Port Townsend, looking south to the northeast corner of the Olympic Mountains. A brief break in the shower activity that day. The ferry runs across Puget Sound to Whidbey Island and the Coupeville landing.

Taken with my medium format Pentax 634N camera on Kodak Portra 400 …

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