New Orleans, Summer 2016 - Part 4

One of the most exciting things I did in New Orleans, at least for me, was finally cross the Mississippi River to Algiers Point. I've traveled all around the East Coast, and even up to Canada twice, but I had never been "west" of the Mississippi. So we took the ferry across the river, which technically was east of New Orleans due to the bends in the river.

I actually took my 4x5 over there as well as my F2. I wanted to photograph the Crescent City Connection bridge, which was really cool to see underneath. Here are some of the photos:

   

 Almost finished with my New Orleans photos!

More Canoeing - Returning to the Alapaha and Dead Rivers

Last Thursday I went canoeing along the Alapaha. It was a tough slog up the river to the Dead River as the water was flowing fairly swiftly. Here are a few 4x5 photos I took:

 
I also brought along a couple of 35mm cameras to shoot for fun. First, I had an old point and shoot, the L35AF from Nikon. Sadly I killed it at the end of the day when it fell out of my bag into sand and water. But here's some of the photos:

 

   

Here is my friend Julie painting in "plein air:"

 And finally, I shot a roll with my Nikon F2 and a new lens I've been infatuated with - the 8mm f/2.8 circular fisheye. You will be seeing more from this lens soon! It is pretty neat:

 

 

Well that's it for today - more soon.

Coming to a Close

Clearly I have been a poor blogger lately. Work and various freelance stuff has simply been taking all my time, even though I have shot some film here and there (and I've got half a dozen rolls to develop in my backlog right now).

Furthermore, I'm afraid my time here in Valdosta is coming to a close and thus this blog will be a bit superfluous. I don't plan to stop blogging, I might just have to move on to a more generically-named place or perhaps finally finish my actual non-business website and find a home for my blog there.

Regardless, as the school year officially closes I think I will do another overview post for the month of April, roughly.

First out of the gate are some images from the new location I mentioned in the last post. I went a couple of times more, once when the river was cresting and the area was dangerously flooded, and the other when it was back to proper height. I also found out the area was sold to a new owner so I may not be able to return unfortunately. Anyway, I shot 4x5 with either way 15cm or 21cm APO Lanthars when it was flooded:

   

I went back with my Linhof 70 and 38mm XL, 58mm XL, and 80mm Xenotar later and made it to the actual banks of the Withlacoochee River finally:

 

I still have a couple rolls of color to develop from here so that's all I have from that outing.

Last month I also took a trip to Jacksonville to buy something and went to Big Talbot State Park while there with my 2x3 Crown Graphics, with my 38mm XL, a 65mm Super Angulon I was trying, and 10.5cm APO Lanthar:

 

Now one more set from April - I went out and chased a big thunderstorm front one afternoon and shot some cool photos with my Nikon F2 and variety of lenses, including a new 15mm f/3.5 lens I was trying. Here are a few shots, on Rollei Digibase CN200:

 

 

 

Oh and I burned through some other film on my Leica III just for kicks and shot this with an old Elmar:

Okay that's enough photos for now. I'll be here for a while yet but later this summer I will likely have to close up shop for a month or more. Stay tuned for a new location.