I like photos of trails … and I seem to be particularly fond of those where the trail curves around out of sight. This adds a bit of mystery to the image. These two were taken on Tri-X … a classic black and white film with good exposure latitude. The camera was my Nikon FM3A … one of the last film cameras that Nikon made.
Another in my collection of antique plumbing fixtures. This was at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend. I am sure the water is disconnected … well, sorta sure. But I like the patina, anyway.
These two buildings are typical of those found at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, WA. The small building above housed a powerful searchlight which could be rolled out to the edge of the bluff and used to spot enemy ships attempting to enter Puget Sound (never happened). I’m not sure what the building was shown below, but it’s being reclaimed by nature.
These are anchor rings for artillery pieces that were used pre-WWI … The artillery was never fired except in practice. These are at Fort Worden State Park … and there were two other forts (Casey and Flagler) that together guarded the entrance to Puget Sound and the naval stations and boatyards in Seattle, Bremerton and Everett.
All these were used in the emplacement shown at the bottom. I thought they made an interesting study.
This is an example of the vignetting you get from a cheap lens. The same cheap 400mm reflex lens that I discussed on my last post (and from the same trip to Whidbey Island and Fort Casey). You tend to get some vignetting with any reflex lens due to design issues, but I was a little surprised at the amount I got in some of my images. I haven’t figured out why some images are more ‘severe’ than others, but there is some in most images. Vignetting can be intentionally added to some images to focus the viewers attention on the main subject. The image below shows how this might work … and is an example of cropping away a lot of the corner areas of the image to minimize the vignette.
Finally, another couple shots from that trip that were cropped to eliminate most of the vignetting.
