Show me your BEST Picture
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I like this one.
DouglasVB
Rising Sun Member
What were you doing down in Antarctica?
Short version, spent a week walking down their fuel distribution pipelines looking for potential issues (inadequate pipe supports, potential leak points, etc.)
Longer version, my company does ongoing work with the Antarctic program, including a master re-design of McMurdo station. The funny part is that is a different business unit within my company, and one day they were talking and the program folks were like, "do you guys do fuel pipelines?" we said yes, and me and a colleague from my business unit got the all-expenses paid trip to "the ice." We were the first ones from my company to make that trip, even though the other business unit had been developing the relationship for years. There have now been several others who have gotten to go, but I always thought that was kinda funny-everyone was jealous for a while.
But we took a Canon Rebel T3 with us with a few lenses, so took some cool shots like the one above since we have the stitching software at work.
Here’s another. I have tons of pictures. I’ll try not to overload.
Snack break on Poison Spider CM2021.
Jenny Cruiser
Hard Core 4+
My favorite from last year on Black Bear.
Cruisertrash
Rising Sun Member
Just got a roll of film back and I’m in love with this photo. I used a toy camera I found at a thrift store - one of those plastic things you’d get for free with your Time-Life subscription. I sealed it from light leaks (which wasn’t 100% effective) and lubed the winder. Film was Ektar 100. I don’t remember where it was taken - maybe near Cortez, maybe outside of Salida. The camera naturally vignettes and is always slightly blurry thanks to the tiny plastic 10mm lens and cheesy sliding fixed aperture. All the shots with this camera end up pretty dark and I think that does something with the Ektar to bring out the saturation. The shot just ended up looking real … dreamy, for lack of a better term. It feels like a place out of time.
Artsy!
Cruisertrash
Rising Sun Member
Totally bro 🤣
I’m always chasing that “place out of time” feeling with my film cameras. My memories of places always feel like this picture looks, so it’s nice to have this photo document something so closely.
Along Route 66, near the Petrified Forest NP.
stusic
Land Use Coordinator
Was going through some of my Moab photos because I can't stop thinking about Cruise Moab, and came across something I'm proud of. Not a photo, but a collection of photos... a video counts, right?
Ummm, extra crunchy.
Lastresort576
Hard Core 4+
There’s a handful of favorites, but this is near the top. Big reason why is it was the first road trip I took with my 3&5 yr old boys and chocolate lab as we arrived in MA from CO. So it sticks out to me a bit.
Ned’s Point, Mattapoisett, MA @0500
Ned’s Point, Mattapoisett, MA @0500
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Heck yeah. I have an ancient Olympus XA that I came across probably 15 years ago. Back in its day (1979) it wasn't anything super special but by today's standards it's got a pretty nice little lens (35mm, f/2.8) and decent enough meter for slides. It also vignettes a little, flares easily and has a bit of a "nostalgic" color shift. But I absolutely love that little thing, too bad it's getting almost impossible to find film (E100 is $20/36-exposure roll and it costs me about $19 to have Denver Digital process it via mail). I may be forced to finally go digital. Yuck.
Ektachrome/Nikon LS-50/Vuescan
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Cruisertrash
Rising Sun Member
That green really got pulled out didn’t it? Great shot.
Film is getting really expensive, both for the film stock itself and processing. I end up using Kodak Gold or Color Plus 75% of the time because it’s ~$8-10 per roll. It’s no Ektachrome or Superia, but it’s not bad at all.
Normally I’m on my late 70s Pentax K1000. Same era and same basic functionality as your camera. Dead simple to use and very robust. Got a few more lenses on my list but the two I have get the job done.
RDub
Locked
I've got a Nikon FM2N with several lenses, motor drive, etc. that I would love to part with. About the slickest manual camera system around at the time. Ping me if any interest.