It seems like yesterday. At one time, for purposes of print publication, magazine and book projects often involved a large number of photos at a couple of different resolutions. 35mm slides could be used for some single page or smaller inset images and medium or large format transparencies were used for other single and multi-page spreads. My cameras of choice included a few different 35mm Canons and a Linhof Master Teknica 4×5. The idea was to use the Canons with a wide variety of lenses for people, animals, close-ups of things like flowers and some landscape, interior and architectural shots. I reserved the 4×5 for long-exposure photos of landscape and architecture.
This slowly evolved to first inclusion of digital images followed by domination of digital work and then exclusion of film altogether. I’ve added the first three of many sets of scanned 35mm slides: western Montana, Southern Utah and Hawaii. The western Montana and southern Utah sets date all the way back to the mid to late 90’s. They are almost exclusively from Glacier Waterton International Peace Park in the case of western Montana and the drainage system, a labyrinth of rugged canyons, of the Escalante River in the case of southern Utah. The third set is from Hawaii, Maui and the Big Island, and dates back to around 2008 when I was shooting most things on 35mm and digitally.
The southern Utah and western Montana projects include these images as well as several hundred 4×5’s which have yet to be scanned. I did most of the work for these projects backpacking and only carried the one 4×5 camera on most of the hikes. My coverage of both places was extensive, having hiked all of the Escalante river system canyons except for one and most of the Glacier and Waterton trails. The 35mm shots were taken here and there when I had access to a 35mm camera or when I was specifically going after certain types of shots such as animals in Glacier or seasonal features like flowers or ice in the Escalante.
All of these were taken on lots of long weekends or one or two week trips here and there over the course of four or so years.
The Hawaii shots are from a long trip where I attempted to camp for a couple of weeks on Maui, then spent a couple of weeks with my family also on Maui, followed by another attempt at camping for a week on the Big Island. Unfortunately the Big Island volcanoes weren’t active. The time spent on Maui also included a three day backpack across the crater of Haleakala. The photos are located in my photo galleries as southern Utah 1, 2 and 3, western Montana 1 and 2, and Hawaii 11, 12 and 13.
I’ve also had similar sets of 35mm slides scanned that were taken in Alaska, California, Northern Utah and Arizona. These will be posted as soon as I have finished working on them, when I get around to it. The large number of 4×5 transparencies that go specifically with the southern Utah and western Montana images should be scanned in the next year or so. And then there are another five thousand or so slides of other places.
Since the last time I posted on the blog, I’ve also added another bit of video, of Park City, Utah to my video page as well. Park City is one of my places to play with new video equipment.
