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This is a continuation of a series of posts on this subject, Part 1 and Part 2 links.  I am back in the UK now and have started to look again at my 'film from digital' project. I have also received the images from Bayeaux in London.  Bayeaux had some trouble with their Kodak LVT equipment but finally sent me my images. For some reason they ended up taking my nominal 4x5 images and printed them 3-up on a single sheet of 8x10 film.  I am not sure why they did it this way. Did they have trouble with 4x5 film availability or printing on 4x5 film. Also, why 3 identical images? Not sure but I got what I paid for so no complaints as far as that is concerned. Initial inspection indicates the negatives may be slightly denser than Gammatech but certainly look printable.  The first negative I took to the darkroom was the one shown below from Gammatech. This is the monochrome version of the image I framed last week described in this post .  Blog Post Cover Image I decided...

Introduction Last summer I spent a wonderful evening photographing on Lake Pend Oreille looking back at Sandpoint during a thunderstorm that was blowing over the town. I wrote about framing another print from that evening here ... As I was using my Fuji GFX digital camera then I had a large number of images to choose from. Another image I liked was taken with an Olympus 135mm f2.8 prime lens on an adapter for my GFX. This is cropped to a 35mm frame resulting in a 30 Mpixel image. Its funny but this image did not appear on my first choices for images from that evening but a subsequent look helped me understand the understated drama of this image. Blog Cover Image As I look at it now and analyze what I like about it I find the following comments. In terms of composition the light in the upper left of the sun glowing behind the clouds is balanced with some tension by the dark mass of Sunnyside peninsula in the lower right. The hint of the mountain outlines is enough to get the whole story...

The other day I was out with my dad for a drive and as usual every trip is a scouting opportunity. The lake here, Lake Pend Oreille, is massive but has very few public access areas. Part of it is geography due to steep mountains but most of it is the sheer amount of lake front private property. So I was pleased to note a section of Bottle Bay road that had a clear view from the roadside across the lake. This made it on my mental list.  Well this morning dawned cool and rainy with soft low lying clouds, fog and mist. This gives the lake a blue mood with a palette to match. I took this as an opportunity to try out my new location and also a few others I saw on the drive. One advantage of winter on the lake is that they lower the water level about 10 feet. State law says that any river or lake shore between high and low water levels is public access. If you can make your way there then in theory the entire lake shore is open. One can walk right under the numerous docks and landings wi...