Never thoiught much of this window, taken on the Ogallala Nation Grassland in July 2006. With some different post processing, I now like it, a lot. Pretty much the same shooting parameters as the Tin Can House below. I think I have at least one more from that trip that I can use this approach.
A door to a bank in Berwyn. The screen is a mess in this jpeg.
The Bank
More OCD... House siding made of flattened tin cans, Ogallala National Grass Lands in NW Nebraska. July 2006. Canon 5D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS at 70mm, f/11.0, 1/80 on the Gitzo, late evening. Used toning in Topaz rather than the NIk filter for this one, not sure it is right yet — looks a little green.
9.8 miles south of the intersestion of US 20 and NE 29, Harrison. AM of the 1st of July, 2006 — enroute from DC to Vail in TRN's ACless Saab. Hot, really hot!
Just working on PP technique.
Just west of Mullen (known for two great golf courses) in the Nebraska Sand Hills. BNSF coal train heading empty to the Powder Ridge Basin in Wyoming. Not the same route but inspiration by John McPhee's Coal Train, in Uncommon Carriers. Canon 5D, 17-40mm f/4L, ISO 320, f/8.0, 1/400, 40mm.
And just a little further west on NE Route 2. Still the 5D and the 17-40. This time at 36mm, ISO 50, f/22, with a shutter speed of 1/3 of a second. There may have been a polarizer mounted to help get the effect. These days it would have been the Singh-Ray Vari-ND, to reduce the light, slow the shutter speed and get the blades smoothed out.
So, there is a link on Tony Sweet's blog that points to John Barclay's blog, where a another link points to Chuck Kimmerly's web site. Wow! Plains, prairie and the stuff that sits on them. All in black and white. Off in another direction, again. My most lauded shot, here redone with an easier hand.
somewhat reminiscent of the 2006 Nebraska snap that got a runner up in a AAA contest. Both happenstance, this on the way to Great Sand Dunes National Park the Nebraska one en route to the Ogalalla National Grasslands. I guess I get better stuff by accident on the way to to places that only sometimes work for me.
Off CO 17 on LN6N north of Alamosa. 5D Mk II, 17-40mm f/4L @40mm, ISO 100, f/8.0, three shot HDR, handheld, out the Hertz SUV window.
Off NE 2, West of Hemingford, NE, ZCBJ Lodge #298, 5D with 17-40mm f/4L @ 40mm, ISO 100, f/16, on the Gitzo, July '06.
Not really just my McMurtry OCD, really, Anselmo, Nebraska. Late June 2006. Maybe a couple years too new as well.
5D with 17-40 @ 35mm, not that it makes much difference after this amount of post processing.
A new book of black and white photos of nebraska is available in a pre-press version here.
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