Composing on the ground glass — inverted, reversed, waiting
THE GROUND GLASS
Chamonix Alpinist 8×10 view camera — wood and brass, carried into the wild on foot.
Fujifilm Velvia 50 & Provia 100F. No preview. No second exposure.
Film, development, drum scanning — A single sheet is too expensive to waste, which is the point
Composed upside down on ground glass. Adjusted by hand. Committed with a single click.
From the field.
Always Evolving
The Leaning Choir
Chamonix 8×10 · Fujifilm Provia 100F
Late summer. Just enough soft light came through the canopy to lift the bark without blowing it out. It was too crowded to find an edge, so the crowd became the subject.
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Corn Lily Field
Chamonix 8×10 · Kodak Tri-X 320TXP
I got low and let the pattern take over — no single leaf as the subject, just the rhythm of them curling against each other. Tri-X gave me the range to hold the shadow pockets between the leaves without losing the silver on every rib.
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House on Fire
Fujifilm GX617 · Velvia 50 · 120 Roll Film
The light doesn't come from above here — it bounces off the canyon wall and floor.The window for the reflected light depends on where the sun sits that time of year, so it's never quite the same trip twice. Four frames to a roll on the GX617, so I had one real chance and one backup. This was the first one.
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