Mark

Just a quick post. A trip just outside Las Vegas to photograph some scenery. I believe the location is called Red Rock. This frame of the rock that mimics the head of a fish, so I named the photo Rock Fish. I photographed with Kodak TMZ 3200 ISO film on a Leica M6. I think the high-speed film helped with the contrast photographing in the shade.

Where will the winds guide you this Labor Day weekend? Kelso Dunes Wilderness details. Located in Baker, California.

A Horizontal provides a serene composition. Yes, that is a spider web on the left leaf tip at 2 o’clock.

I like the repeating circular pattern in the sand that the swirling wind provided pushing the plant back and forth Photographed with a borrowed Leica M6 and Agfa 25 film. This trip was a first time shooting with a Leica rangefinder. I was shooting up to this point with a 4×5. A good friend said hey take my Leica along and shoot some photos with it. After this trip, I bought a Leica M6 and left the 4×5 at home.

 

Happy 100th birthday, National Parks Service! Memorial weekend 1980 I took this photo from Yosemite Valley looking upwards to Yosemite Falls. The moon was full that night and the sound created by the waterfall was awesome. I photographed using my Mamiya C330 with Kodak Ektachrome 200. The exposure was two minutes at ƒ/2.8.

An energetic cloud formation above Death Valley National Park. Happy 100th birthday, National Park Service! Photographed with Agfa 25 film on a Canon EOS1-N camera. Scanned on a Nikon 9000ED with Vuescan Software.

Badlands detail at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley National Park. The unusual topography created by erosion forming mounds of mudstone into interesting geometric shapes. I photographed using Kodak HIE Infrared film with an 87C opaque filter on a Leica M6 Camera. I scanned the film with a Nikon 9000ED scanner using VueScan software on my MacPro running El Capitan OS.

Hawaiian Chicken

Hawaiian Chicken for Foster Farms using organic chicken. More of the lighting details under the Food section of this site. This photoshoot was for my sister’s blog and will post soon. I will send the link when it’s published. She did the food prep, and most of the props. More about that process after it publishes.

This is the test shot the day prior to shooting. I wanted to check out ratios with the Profoto B1’s. I wanted to achieve a window light quality.

A detail of the skillet with some braised Hawaiian chicken.