rousing success! I had the privilege of attending it
as a professional development exercise. There is
much cross-over in the things learned there and in
what I do day to day at my employment.
I thought I would take the time
to post some of
the photographs for those interested
by way of a
workshop report.
We met Monday AM at Virginia Creek
Settlement
and after some time looking at
gear and asking
questions we headed on up to Bodie
Ghost Town.
Bodie
Kitchen
Pinkham
& Smith Visual Quality Series IV
Kodak
2D 8X10
Ghost
as
above
Vines
Front Porch, Bodie
as
above
Chest
Through Window, Bodie
as
above
Working in the thin dry air at 8500
feet elevation in
Bodie has an amazing effect on
ones appetites. After
a fine meal in Bridgeport we had
a group session of
question / answer and a critique
on work brought.
Tuesday found us in the Mono Lake
/ Lee Vining
Canyon region. After shots
around Mono Lake at
Conway Ranch and the Sand Tufa's
at Navy Beach,
I wandered up Lee Vining Canyon
to photograph
a small falls just below the Edison
Power plant.
Glorious
Tree, Conway Ranch
10
3/4" American Optical Co. Dagor
Sand
Tufa #1
14
1/2" Hermagis Eidoscop
Sand
Tufa #2
225mm
Schneider G-Claron
I photographed the falls in 2 different
formats, 8X10
and 6.5 X 8.5. I used a gamut
of lenses from very
sharp wides, to a soft focus normal.
Lee
Vining Falls #1
225mm
Schneider G-Claron, Kodak 2D 8X10
Lee
Vining Falls #2
162mm
Cooke Series VIIb wide angle, Kodak 2D 8X10
Lee
Vining Falls #3
135mm
f12.5 Wollensak EWA, Kodak 2D 6.5 X 8.5
Lee
Vining Falls #4
Cooke
10 1/2" Portrait Series IIb, Kodak 2D 6.5 X 8.5
Lee
Vining Falls #5
Cooke
10 1/2" Portrait Series IIb, Kodak 2D 6.5 X 8.5
Wednesday AM found us working in
the Mono /
Lee Vining environs again with
a plan to move south
during the day towards Convict
lake, our target for a
Wednesday evening session in a
beautiful rented cabin.
I wandered up into Horse Meadow
and feeling
un-inspired, I wandered up to the
top of the moraine
that is the southern boundary of
Lee Vining canyon.
Here I found a burn area with some
striking Mountain
Mahogany trees that having been
killed in the fire had
shed their bark and were snowy
white. I concentrated
on pure form and texture with these.
White
Mahogany Trunk #1
10"
Conley Anastigmat, Kodak 2D 6.5 X 8.5"
White
Mahogany Trunk #2
10"
Conley Anastigmat, Kodak 2D 6.5 X 8.5"
Shadow
on Granite
10"
Conley Anastigmat, Kodak 2D 6.5 X 8.5"
By the time I reached Convict Lake
it was late afternoon
and I was nearly the last to arrive.
Most participants were
in the relax mode and as extreme
good luck would have
it, Wilbur Wong relaxes best while
he is cooking! He
was preparing a gourmet 7 course meal!
WOW!
I seized the opportunity to make
an "environmental
On Thursday AM it was time to point
portrait" of Wilbur working at
the Kitchen counter.
Wilbur
Wong
Cooke
10 1/2" Portrait Series IIb, Kodak 2D 6.5 X 8.5
shot at f4.5 diffusion "3"
the truck towards Tonopah while
the rest
of the group headed towards Bristlecones
and ultimately, Lone Pine.
My plan was
to photograph in the mountains
east of
Owens Gorge or perhaps even old
Benton
and I spent time hiking and looking
but
as it turned out, the portraits
of Wilbur
were the final photographs of a
very
successful trip.