Who needs drugs when you have a camera? Shot this last weekend at the Woodburn Tulip Festival in a nearby grove of trees (hazelnut I think, though I admit I know more about photography than nuts, so could be anything). The result of a double exposure, one in focus, the other out of focus. Shot on my Nikon with Velvia slide film.

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Obviously not a recent photo. ;-) This was taken at Ponytail Falls earlier this year in the Columbia River Gorge.

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How there you sat in summer-time,
May yet be in your mind;
And how you heard the green woods sing
Beneath the freshening wind.
Though the same wind now blows around,
You would its blast recall;
For every breath that stirs the trees,
Doth cause a leaf to fall.
---from The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I found this scene in Viento State Park along I-84E after realizing that my friend Mark and I had completely spaced out and passed our exit for Cascade Locks, as we were on our way to Falls Creek Falls via the Bridge of the Gods. We decided to turn around here, and then decided to get out a moment to "stretch our legs" which is really just a euphemism for spend 30 minutes taking pictures before going back the way we came. Often the unexpected detours are the ones that produce the most interesting photography for me.

This shot is another result of a double exposure taken with my Nikon FM2 and Fuji Velvia 50 slide film. The first exposure was in focus and a stop underexposed with the second exposure purposely out of focus and also a stop underexposed. I like this technique because it's effect is something that I can only imagine, not actually see. I am incredibly fascinated with aspects of photography that capture perspectives of the world that are not visible to the human eye, and the ability to see the world simultaneously in focus and out of focus all at once is one of those perspectives.

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A grove of cherry trees in Mosier. This was a trip I made with Silton to see the Mosier tunnels and we decided to make the short side trip up to Rowena Crest. Mosier ought to be in the dictionary as the definition of a "small town". It takes about 20 seconds to drive through it. An interesting little place, and definitely surrounded by some beautiful scenery. The drive out the gorge to this area always fascinates me, as the geology changes quite dramatically from the lush forests of the the waterfall area, to the rugged and barren terrain that characterizes the eastern section of the gorge. I find them equally beautiful.

This was taken with my Nikon FM2, a Nikkor 50mm 1.4 and Kodak HIE shot through a red 25 filter.

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I have lived in Oregon for my entire adult life and never have I visited our only national park, so this was my first trip in celebration of my first Father's day. A while back on a trip to Yosemite I saw a photo by Ted Orland in the Ansel Adams gallery of a sunrise at Mono Lake that just blew my mind. Using his holga camera he had shot 8 frames of the sunrise and stitched them together in photoshop into a magnificent panoramic. A friend of mine, David Reamer (who has a picture or two in my Once in a Blue Moon group) once mentioned that for him there are three types of photos: the ones he took, the ones he wished he had taken, and the ones that just aren't very good. Ted Orland's shot fell very firmly into that second category.

About a month later I found out I had taken second place in a local camera shop's holga photography contest. Part of the prize was a new holga and a book on holga photography. Included in the book was a brief biography of none other than Ted Orland. So with his photography burning fresh in my mind I left my old holga at home and took my new holga to Crater Lake with just this project in mind. I thought about taking my old holga, which has been with me for years and is lovingly decorated with the album cover from Achtung Baby, but it has a very nasty tendency to flare heavily and I didn't want to end up with a few really good shots ruined by heavy flare on a couple of others, mostly likely the ones that would go smack in the middle of the panoramic.

Coming into Crater Lake from the north we stopped at this overlook immediately. It was the very first spot we could pull over and this was one of my first views of this lake which I have long wanted to see. I quickly loaded a roll of slide into my Holga with the intent to cross process seeing how blue the water was and knowing it would just be enhanced by the cross processed Kodak slide film. Click click click, it may have been the fastest I have ever gone through a roll of holga.

During the three days there I made two other panoramic series of the lake with my Holga. One was foiled by the bulb switch somehow activating itself, though I swear I made sure it was still on "N". The second was taken during the first of two sunrises we photographed, an amazing and absolutely mind-blowing sunrise, with a solid bank of clouds rolling over the western edge of the caldera and spilling across the lake while the sun rose to the east and tinged everything a golden yellow. That panoramic is still in the works and hopefully I can make something presentable of it. Until then, this is my first foray into this time of panoramic holga photography. So thanks to Ted Orland whose photography inspired this. Thanks too to Kodak who seems to make slide film that is better for cross processing than processing, sorry I guess a bit of bitterness still about the discontinuation of the UC films in 120. ;-) It is certainly not perfect and still a bit of a work in progress, but then again what photography isn't?

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