[LargeFormat] Hello all
Jim Hemenway
Jim at hemenway.com
Tue Jun 3 23:15:01 EDT 2008
You must be young Dave. At 66 I no longer have the energy for your kind
of photo trips, but wish that I still did.
Contrary to the television commercials, Aleve doesn't work all day. ;-)
Jim
Dave Hornford wrote:
> My home is in western Canada a short drive from Banff, Lake Louise, Kootenay
> Park, Yoho Park, Waterton, the Icefield Parkway, etc.. - I truly love
> landscape photography, large format & my Sinar cameras.
>
> I fear I am the only practitioner of ultra-light backpacking who has billion
> pound loads (he thinks - "if I cut the handle off my toothbrush I'll be able
> to carry 4 more sheets of film") The real grief is rain not weight & bulk -
> last fall I was out in the Pipestone (near Louise) and when it wasn't
> raining it snowed. After making room in the tent (extra light 1 man tent.
> See toothbrush comment) for the camera & equipment there wasn't much room
> for the photographer. Photographer slept under a tarp (funky light silicone
> nylon tarp intended to protect set-up camera. See toothbrush comment)
> Photographer was already damp.
>
> Fresh snow & low clouds the landscape curse - I ask you how do you
> distinguish Zone 8.75 from 9.1 when the sky is acting like the world's
> greatest light box. This was the first real trip with the 8x10 and the lens
> I use for 4x5 were just to wide. Sometimes your subject is less than the
> whole universe, especially not the foot of the tripod. Bought a new lens -
> the internet is a wonderful thing.
>
> Work, work related travel and a desire to remain acquainted with my wife &
> boys mean Pipestone & Icefield Parkway's weekend's film is in my freezer -
> last fall can't have been 8 months ago. (He thinks - "tall lads, bigger than
> me, less extra weight than me, lots of carrying capacity"; they see me
> thinking & say - "Dad backpacking & photography are different activities,
> put the camera down.") Yes, the new lens is in its shipping box.
>
> There we were at the parking lot for a few days canoeing & kayaking at
> Myrtle Lake in Well Grey Park. Relaxing quality time with the family. It
> was only a couple of kilometres portage to the lake. The fiends made me put
> the camera boxes I had smuggled back into the car. Next time I label them
> food.
>
> Christopher, how did you succeed in developing his interest?
>
> Dave
> At the Sheraton Rio, prior the Carat Hotel Budapest, prior Kilmeny Islay,
> prior the Westin London, prior the Omni Montreal, prior the Westin Glasgow,
> prior a few places in Toronto, prior a number of stays in Victoria (though
> of you Don), prior the airport place LA, prior the forgotten St. Petersburg,
> prior someplace Moscow, prior the Paris Hilton (makes me chuckle so I can
> remember this one), etc.... (Stops at home in between, not all family
> communication is via text messaging & email)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: largeformat-bounces at f32.net [mailto:largeformat-bounces at f32.net] On
> Behalf Of Les Newcomer
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 6:19 PM
> To: Dave Hornford; f32 Large Format Photography Mail List
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Hello all
>
>
> On Jun 3, 2008, at 7:22 PM, Dave Hornford wrote:
>
>
>>Both are Sinar, and are outdoors carry through the
>>mountains cameras.
>>
>>Dave
>
>
> I've rarely seen the words Sinar, carry and mountains used in the
> same sentence. How big is your elephant herd? :-)
>
>
> For me it's 120 3x4 4x5 5x7 and 8x10, Deardorf for the big one,
> Graphic cameras for the rest.
>
> Les Newcomer
>
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