After all the complexity of the last post with building multiple cameras, two angles of view, three ways of simulating binocular vision and five rolls of curly color film, I recovered with a dose of black and white film in just a single camera. The only black and white film I had was Kentmere 100 so I didn't even have to decide what film to use. The Toucan 45 had only seen one roll of film.
It was a mild sunny day, perfect for defining planes and rectangles.
It cracks me up how much this looks like an extremely curved film plane. In this case, it's the building that's curved.
It was quite a surprise to see that Miller's Bay was still full of ice. I knew I was flirting with flare pointing the camera toward the sun to get the textures of the ice highlighted by the solar reflection. The capture of the ice was only moderately successful and it looks like a pretty big meteorite just hit the eastern shore of the lake.
There were still a few brave ice fishers. As I carefully set up the tripod on the rocky shoreline, as close to them as I was willing to get, the more distant one told his companion that he was getting his picture taken. When the wind is coming off the lake, it's surprising how well you can hear conversations from out on the ice.
A cluster of trees on Monkey Island across the mushy looking ice of the southern inlet .
The lake itself has only a few large chunks left bobbing near the shore which is completely lined by this brilliant border.
A planter between the columns in the front of the Wisconsin National Life Building. Interesting how the wide angle of view records a distinctly different shadow angle on the adjacent columns. The left is on a line with the sun and the camera and nearly shadowless, the right one 60 degrees away from that line.
Shadows on the side of the Masonic Temple.
A little too close to an Amarylis blossom,
Sarah's corner of the sun room.
My corner.
Beautiful series and creative use of a pinhole camera.
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