Easy jailbreak shots. All with 25-50/4 AI-s on Df.
First 2 at the jail in Rhyolite, NV with a contribution/defilement by a grafitti artist. I found the contrast of old and new interesting, but it is a federal crime to deface these buildings or remove anything.
Interesting connection I was not aware of until I just read through that wikipedia page. There was actually a pro-basketball team, the Baltimore Bullets, that derived its name from what was produced at the tower. The team later moved to Washington DC, and was called the Washington Bullets, before the club did some rethinking about the name's connotation and changed it to Washington Wizards in the 1990s. The Wizards remain DC's pro-basketball club, and they seem to be doing fairly well in the current NBA season.
Peter, after looking at the golfer's name in Steve's post, I went checking up on the other Peter on Wikipedia to see if there was any connection to you. But this Oosty was born and raised in England, so apparently no link .
I took the D7200 for a spin with the 500mm f4 P attached. It was 80s and really getting warm. I didnt find much to shoot other that this bird feasting on insects.
It is nice to have 500mm on DX in 1:3 crop effectively giving me effective 975mm access.
From the recent trip to Death Valley and Nevada this is the Valley of Fire State Park northeast of Las Vegas. We had mostly inclement weather there with terrible light for photography, but I did manage a few shots as the sun appeared. 18/3.5 AI-s on Df.
saph wrote:
Peter, after looking at the golfer's name in Steve's post, I went checking up on the other Peter on Wikipedia to see if there was any connection to you. But this Oosty was born and raised in England, so apparently no link .
No there is no link other than an historical Dutch background. sadly Peter Oosterhuis, who is now 70, has Alzheimer's disease which he publicly announced in 2015 when he retired from golf broadcasting for CBS.
Louis Oosthuizen, on the other hand, and I share a common ancestor, Johannes Oosthuizen. Johannes was the progenitor (stamvader) of Oosthuizen family in South Africa. He arrived in the Cape from Weert, Holland in
1685.
There are many Oosthuizens in South Africa the majority of whom are only very distantly related.
Samy – great candis, but how do you keep track of all of those camera/lens/film combinations?
Jay – you continue to produce superb images with at 24 PC
John – Ferries? Not boring at all!
Ronny – running out of superlatives…
Steve – Great golfing action. What lens were you using?
Ram – Glad the new purchase worked out well.
Ken B – sorry to hear about the inclement weather but great images from DV nevertheless.
Scott – I liked theEastman interior series
Kristian – nice shots of people going about their daily commuting
Jay, fantastic color in that panorama. Niagara Falls I presume.
Ram, very cool catch of the woodpecker, you have quite some reach capability with the D7200 and the 500 F4 P.
Ken - fantastic Death Valley scene, too bad you couldn't get more opportunity to take pics.
Peter, I did read about Peter Oosterhuis' retirement due to Alzheimer's. Terrible affliction.
Scott, echoing what Colin said about the Eastman series!!! Kodak just announced (only announced) the return of their TMax 3200. Its encouraging film is getting back into demand. Of course they announced the return of Ektachrome last year and nothing's shown up yet.
Colin, not really sure how, but I am determined to keep track of the combo for frames that do work. Some of it is writing down the camera, lens and film combo before sending off to the lab.
A pic of the same building which I have taken in wider angle several times before. The building is right on the banks of the Jones Falls stream, which not far from the right edge of the frame empties out into the Inner Harbor. Nicca Type 5 rangefinder, Nippon Kogaku 8.5cm f2 PC LTM, Delta 100 film.
Reading up more about Jones Falls, which seems to appear out of nowhere close to downtown Baltimore, there's quite some history. This stream was a major waterway through Baltimore in centuries past, but pollution and waste dumping turned it into something like the infamous Cuyahoga river in Ohio, which is well known for having caught on fire. Jones Falls got so bad it actually blew up in 1926.
This excerpt from an article in 1991 goes into gory detail:
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It was early afternoon on June 8, 1926, when something -- a spark perhaps, or a lit cigarette -- touched off petroleum fumes in the underground conduits built in 1914 to contain the stream, which had become a stinking open sewer. In a series of explosions, manhole covers were blown into the air all along the Fallsway from Baltimore Street north to Madison Avenue. The blast shattered nearby windows, and one man was cut by flying glass.
A sheet of flame 40 feet high in places spread along the open portion of the river from Baltimore Street to Pratt Street, setting fire to the roof of the Folly burlesque theater, the wooden understructure of the Lombard Street Bridge, and the abutments of the Pratt Street Bridge. Heavy smoke filled downtown streets. City firefighters battled the six-alarm river fire with chemicals, fireboats and by flushing water through the conduits.
There's some pretty scathing words from the author about how the city mismanaged this natural resource, and interestingly enough, it turns out, came up with the solution to cover it up by directing the water through tunnels and building an interstate road above portions of the stream. Over time, there has been more of a clean up effort, and from more recent sources, Jones Falls is indeed a lot less polluted now.
Ballard wrote:
Easy jailbreak shots. All with 25-50/4 AI-s on Df.
First 2 at the jail in Rhyolite, NV with a contribution/defilement by a grafitti artist. I found the contrast of old and new interesting, but it is a federal crime to deface these buildings or remove anything.
Second 2 at the jail in nearby Bullfrog.
Ken, nice takes of the jail at Bullfrog. Glad to see the 25-50 getting good use.
Scott
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