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Road trip: part II

film shots from a road trip to the Canadian rockies

part II:

Nikon F3; Zeiss Planar 50/1.4 and Dad’s Nikkor 28/3.5 (except for a few shots I took with an E series 50/1.8); no photoshop.

(part I is here: http://wp.me/p11VMI-j0)

Roll 1: Kodak Gold 100
I have previously dissed on Kodak film. It’s for chumps? Real camera nerds use Ilford for black and white, and pro-grade Fuji for color, right? Well, this roll saved the day. I had decided to bring one roll of film–and absentmindedly grabbed an already-exposed roll. Smooth move dave, smooth move. As the dice fell, a nearby gift/souvenir shop just happened to have film. What film was it? Kodak Gold 100. Kodak, I apologize; your film is everywhere, you rock.

Roll 2: Fuji Pro 160S
I like this film. Nothing really super crazy, just good color and grain.

Roll 3: Fuji Sensia 100
The jury didn’t even have to go out on this one: I <3 slide film. It is beautiful. If I had to take a camera, lens and two films for the rest of my life, it’d be the F3, a 35/1.4, and Sensia 200 (or maybe the Kodak slide film, I haven’t tried it yet) and Ilford HP5+. Done deal. Actually that doesn’t sound like a half bad plan anyways…

Roll 4: Fuji Superia 200 (another one of the old rolls of film from pops)
Nothing too crazy here, same reddish vintage-looking hues from the 7-year aged film. This roll was halfway used up when we left, so it had only a few trip shots worth posting here. Why call it roll 4? Because I didn’t realize until a moment ago that it was the first, not last, roll I took on the trip; water under the bridge.

Without further ado, here they are:

roll 1 #10. Chips and salsa and hummus and apple pie and coffee, at the top of a 3.2 mile hike. All baked by scratch at the tea house up there, baking supplies helicoptered in once per season, fresh supplies hiked in weekly. The staff (a family) lives there five days per week. Yes, awesome.
#11. Yummy in my tummy :)
#13
#15. This view is even better while having the aforementioned chips and salsa and hummus and pie and coffee.
#26
roll 2 #2. A train boiler blew back in the day, sending this piece (over 500 lbs) on it's way to where it sits now. The railroad tracks are 130 meters away. Egads.
roll 2 #3
#4
#5. Awesome man riding his bike through the rockies with a guitar.
#8
#11
#19
#24
roll 3 #3
#5
#7. This was taken with a prime lens, a 50 for that matter...this required me to get closer to a nasty spider than I like to get to spiders. Especially the nasty ones.
#10 Up and to the right, you can see some of a glacier. Once and a while pieces would calve off and their thunder would roll down the valley. Awesome.
#17
#18. Pops sacking a few sweet macro shots. Mom is a total shutter bug, too. Go figure.
#28
#35
#36
#37. Slide film is awesome.
roll 4 #9
#11
#12
..and that’s it. It was a great* trip.
*”great” is overused. I mean great, actually great.

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9 Comments

  1. anon4him
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    Freaking sweet. Period. So I actually don’t normally post on my Anon4him blog that you commented on. In fact, posting my most recent post there was entirely accidental. I meant to post it on my wordpress that is called “newsurrender”. Anyways, I’m glad I had the mix-up, because I am greatly enjoying your blog and pictures! Do you mind if I add you to my blogroll on my other site?

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    1. davidpadvorac
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      Hmm. I’m not sure how I feel about that. How could you like something with eight legs? Eight! That is a lot of legs.

      Thanks for the compliment though :)

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  4. Naomi
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    Way to go with the Nikon! Lovely pics, also get me in the mood to travel, thank you :-) We had the privilege of visiting the Rockies a few years back (Breckenridge) – too awesome!

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