I have been photowalking the local neighborhood. Mostly in monochrome, with some IR thrown in.
Just one street over there are these three cars which have been embedded in the foliage and deteriorating for probably a number of years. For a place as generally bougie as Bainbridge Island, and in a neighborhood where the houses run about 1.5 million on not noticeably large lots, such a sight is remarkable. And to me, very cool.
Such a scene is candy to a monochrome camera. I keep coming back to this spot with various cameras, including film cameras, but the Q3 Monochrom and M11 Monochrom are my weapons of choice. Having said that, I am planning to show up there soon sporting My Chamonix 45F-2 with a CFV100C digital back on a Fotodiox adapter. That string of photographic gobbledygook means I will come home with an image that is half a gigapixel. And because the 45F-2 is a 4×5 view camera, I will be able to do wonderful things with camera movements to correct distortion and control the plane of focus. All very nerdy, and I might even come up with a good photo. Or a 500 megapixel waste of photons. Stay tuned.
In the meantime, I can play with somewhat less outlandish cameras.
I find these images to be sad in a way. These were once shiny powerful cars, built and owned with pride. Apparently based in Alaska. Somehow they found themselves to an obscure corner of a small island in Puget Sound, where they are gradually decaying into piles of rust while being eaten by the forest. I wonder what the story is. There is a house behind this spot. Does the owner of these vehicles live there? Or did the owner die years ago and this photographic treasure was left, forgotten, to decay in peace?
Whatever it is, at 500 megapixels every blemish, pine needle and mossy growth will be brought into sharp focus. Former automotive glory, dissolving in the forest. Photographic glory pending.
Meanwhile, we had some awesome fog this morning. I was working on my first cup of coffee, and didn’t feel like getting bundled up and going out into the dampness for a proper photowalk, but I did venture out for a mini-photowalk for about 5 minutes with the M11M.
I love it when the fog descends upon the island. On New Year’s Eve in 2025 the fog arrived around 1900 and I went out with the Q3 Monochrom. I was happy with the images I got and hope to capture more fog shots in the future.
