Dark and wide

Getting dark on the way back, swapped the 100 macro for the 35 f/1.4.  B&W on most to kil the street lamp color cast

Pirate Ally — next to Faulkner's

Pirate Ally — including Faulkner'sThe church - St. Louis Cathedral

... the drummer played on

Barber behind the Monteleone

From behind - again

Garage on Iberville

Five and dime — wide this time

It's a Schwinn

Corner of Chartres and Wilkinson Streets, NOLA.  5D Mk III, 100 Macro, ISO 2500 f/8.0 @ 1/100.  More from NOLA soon, perhaps even from onboard the return.

Techo wonder. Posted from 35,000' over Dan Z. in Greenville, SC. All with the 100 Macro, the snaps on the way back with the 35 f/1.4 TBD.

From behind

Mixed Message

Simple message - Bourbon Street

Perennial Favorite — 619 Chartres Street

Five and Dime

Good start in ND

The green isn't for that ND. This the other ND — the one that beats the Indiana ND in hockey every year. Pretty happy with this snap from the first day of the Tillman Crane Structures Workshop. 

Five shot bracket, over 5 stops, windows would have been blown out otherwise.  Sandwiched with Phototmatix Fusion.  5D MkIII @ ISO 200, f/11.0, bracketed around 4/10, 24mm TS-E. Focus assist via SmallHD DP-4. 

Die neue schwarz Foto Wagen

took up residence in the garage. Got to test my patience dealing with the inconsistent and attitudenous personnel at the MD MVA, then I got to use my negotiating skills and the iPad to create a personal rather than a client benefit stream. Anyway black over tan E350, the putative and presumptive bucket mobile. No brats with driving privlegdges on this one and sticker free too... 

I do have to wonder why they have cops with guns at the MVA.  There was more than $1M of inventopry on the dealers floor — didn't see no cops with guns there.  I think I would rather stick up the MVA, for drivers license fees.  Hah! Someone needs better target marketing. Maybe has to with attitudenous, just maybe. Your government at work. REMAINDER REDACTED, ed.

A libertarian Foto Wagon, just perhaps.

The rental 24 TS-E on the 5D MkIII. Some high for me ISO.

Rain delay...

at Camdem Yards for the Orioles and the Rangers.  Not so different two miles or so to the east.  Quick flat-stitched pano with the complete ND configuration including the Lens Rental 24 TS-E. The thing feels like it coists what it does. Took off the 45 TS-E to mount it — no comaprison, might be why it is twice the price.

Three portrait snaps, cropped 12x5.

Rugby, ND - show and tell

So here are the fifteen images I am taking to the North Dakota, Tillman Crane workshop.  All printed on 13"x19" Epson Cold Press Natural (rough texture fine art paper).  They are printed with a minumum 2" border and bottom weighted so there is lot of white space especially on the square images. All finished in a split tone faux platinum. 

It was hard culling these out from 150,000 images taken since 2003. They turn out being from eight states (CO, KS, MD, ME, NE, PA, VA, WV), taken with four different cameras (Canon 10D, 5D, 5D MkII, 5D MkIII) in six different years (2005, 06, 07, 09, 11, 12).

So... after review by the editorial board at lunch today, three images are coming out.  The bane of the editorial board, while remaining an all time favorite of the artist, the houses on the Ohio river, on Wheeling Island, WV. Out! Relaced by the Last Picture Show, not in Archer City, TX however, this in Dunning, NE.  

The schoolhouse in Volland, KS out because, it really didn't make the cut technically, replaced by the Coca Cola machine from about sixty miles away in Cottonwood Falls, KS. The Florence, KS schoolhouse will be coming out as well, to be replaced by one of two shots from Maryland — Crystal Pool (2004) or the Linwood Grain Elevator (2006). Polls close later tonite.  Both are posted in the gallery for the moment.

After further review,artists priveldge is being asserted and both Crystal Pool and the Linwood Grain elevator are staying in, Marietta, PA is coming out which will please the editorial board which only found interest in the light bulb.  Done and dusted, unless there are some technical issues with the three new additions when printed.

Well... maybe dusted but not so done. Concluded that three tall images with signs was too much. So the Linwood Grain elevator bites the dust and is replaced by Leadville, CO (2006). Love the Ford in the alley. 

Click on the contact sheet to be transported to the gallery.  Click on a thumbnail there for the full size images. 

Archer City to Waterford

Texas to Virginia. Somewhere in the McMurtry oeuvre, or tangentially to it, I discovered his DC/NOVA residence was in Waterford, VA. Web queries indicated a particularly attractive photo venue. So, in the anticipation of a wet weekend, it was off to Louden County, via Whites Ferry across the Potomac, for a Friday late afternoon session. Everthing in town was shot with the 45 TS-E in anticipation for the upcomming North Dakota trip but the first few of the day were outside of town and required a longer reach.

100-400 at 250mm from along the fence on Old Wheatfield Road. Cropped 16x9 full width to eliminate the excess and out-of-focus grass in the forground. Gotta love the Turkey Vulture on the right chimney.

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