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The edge of Fidalgo island with a new analog camera

I have been shooting 120 film for a while but did not have a 135 film camera until now. Well, I started photography with a K1000 but that was long time ago - a period I would like to erase if I can.

To fill the 135 format gap I bought a Canon AE-1 Program and shot two rolls (few photographs here) with it. It’s a really nice camera that featured a “point and shoot” mode as well. Then I found a Nikon FM2N in excellent condition - I had to get it. Paired with a 50mm f/1.8 AIS pancake lens and a roll of Kodak Portra 400, drove to Washington Park in Anacortes to test it out.

categories: film, day hikes, pacificnorthwest
Wednesday 02.01.23
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Smoke in the Mountains

The new “normal” late summer/early fall.

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1/640 sec at f/6.8, ISO 100

1/125 sec at f/8, ISO 400

1/250 sec at f/8, ISO 160

1/160 sec at f/8, ISO 200

categories: fall, day hikes, sunset
Monday 10.03.22
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Smoky sunset in the woods

Dense forest fire smoke from Bolt Creek fire started pouring over Western Washington on September 10th, 2022 but the air quality wasn’t great for a while - possibly due to smoke traveling from other fires in the region. These photographs were taken on the 9th during an evening walk in the forest - I was not expecting to find smoke trapped in the trees and in the sky above, rendering fog-like scene especially at sunset.

1/160 sec at f/4, ISO 800

1/180 sec at f/8, ISO 3200

1/40 sec at f/6.8, ISO 3200

categories: day hikes, mediumformat, misc, pacificnorthwest, sunset
Tuesday 09.13.22
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Old Robe Trail

Huckleberries dominated the upper parts of the canyon, and salmonberries took the lower parts of the trail near the river (South Fork Stillaguamish).

categories: mediumformat, day hikes, pacificnorthwest, summer
Wednesday 07.06.22
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The colors from the 80's

It is still a bit cold for the animals in hibernation and the cold blooded crawlers to be out on these trails in Central Washington but not cold enough for the creeks and small lakes to be frozen. It almost feels like the end of winter but the lack of a lush green skin on the hills will remind one of the remaining days of winter with warmer days just around the corner.

It is the time of the year when nature in this region is engulfed in pastel colors.

1/180 sec at f/4, ISO 800

1/100 sec at f/8, ISO 100

1/100 sec at f/4, ISO 200

1/160 sec at f/4, ISO 400

categories: mediumformat, day hikes, pacificnorthwest, sunset, winter
Monday 03.07.22
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Shades of summer

The shadows grew tall when the sun raced towards the near west horizon on this beautiful late summer evening in the mountains.

categories: sunset, day hikes, pacificnorthwest, summer
Friday 01.07.22
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The invisible fence

We were at the top of the canyon trail looking over a bend in Rio Grande separating Mexico from the US, waiting for the sunset when a horse rider appeared on the American side of the river slowly making his way to the trailhead below us.

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It turned out he was an artist from the other side who had left his creations in several spots across the border, where visitors can buy with cash, and was making rounds to collect the money. As he passed us on the trail as he came up I waved at him and said “hi” with a smile and he smiled back and waved. I wanted to have a conversation with him if he was not in a hurry although he might not even speak English. I was curious and interested to know his daily life making rounds across the invisible fence making a living by selling creative artifacts to American tourists.

An unfinished story I would love to finish someday, perhaps.

categories: mobile photography , day hikes, travel, spring
Saturday 04.24.21
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A petrified face

When I stared at this suspiciously human like face carved into new earth (from a volcanic eruption 1.5 million years ago), did not think of the probability it might have been carved by man.

categories: day hikes, rural america, mobile photography , spring
Saturday 04.03.21
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Beached boat

Springtime in the northwest enabling me discovering new places and things to photograph

categories: mobile photography , spring, day hikes
Wednesday 03.31.21
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Ducks and a river

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The rain felt awkwardly strange as if it was rare for there were very few people on the trail.

categories: mobile photography , day hikes, spring
Sunday 03.21.21
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Symptoms of the universe

Sunlight bleeding through atmospheric water

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categories: mobile photography , day hikes
Monday 01.18.21
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Deception Pass

Winter day in the sun

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categories: mobile photography , day hikes, travel
Saturday 01.09.21
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North head light

Stormy Sunday afternoon by the Pacific coast

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categories: day hikes, travel, mobile photography
Monday 01.04.21
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Squak mountain

For the past few days, I have a hurting shoulder and neck from sleeping odd hours and bad posture, stopping me from going out and do stuff. But today we had an amazing winter day in the sun, had to leave my habitat and go for a hike.

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It isn’t quite winter-winter in the Pacific Northwest yet. Well, at least not by the definition of winter in this general area (this far north from the equator) in the northern hemisphere. PNW winters however, are subtle: occasional snow but mostly it rains. The forests are still green, not just the coniferous trees but undergrowth comprising mostly of ferns and rustic winterproof trees and shrubs such as holly. The forest floor was wet brimming with life - flora, mostly with frequent symptoms of the presence fauna in all forms, insects to mammals.

Three hours later, I had a handful of Apple ProRAW files from my phone exported into Lightroom Mobile for editing.

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tags: mobile, apple proraw, day-hike
categories: day hikes, mobile photography
Monday 12.28.20
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Leaving the camera at home

With native RAW support in the phone camera, I have been shooting a lot more with the phone than ever before. When I say “shooting with the phone” I do not mean shooting for social media posts but producing images that might make it to prints. Here’s an early peek into my captures from the limited time I’ve spent exporting/working on limited Apple ProRAW photographs taken around my hometown.

The future looks very promising.

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All photographs in this set were captured using an iPhone 12 Pro Max in native RAW, exported (after minor edits) in LightRoom mobile.

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tags: mobile, apple proraw
categories: day hikes, mobile photography
Sunday 12.27.20
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A day away from Copenhagen

Over the past several centuries we have built remarkable cities and have made every attempt to make each one look unique and reflect the culture of the people living in it. But more than the significance of these creations in human history, I admire and prefer what lies outside and often out of reach for most part, throughout our existence, the Earth in its nascent form.

Sixty minutes driving south of Copenhagen starts to look like sixty minutes driving outside of most of the cities in upper northern hemisphere: The farmlands, trees, wide open land, crops, windmills, barns. I would not call it as attractive as any national park or preserve but it was a relief to get out of the city for a change, after we rented a car for the final two days of the trip. While I have been in and around Copenhagen over the past, had never been to the island of Møn before. As any other adventure, this was not planned for months or weeks - it was a fifteen research on the internet the night before, in attempt to find something new and different to do in Denmark before flying back home, and also a destination the weather forecast approved my not weather-sealed Sony photography gear.

And so I picked Møns Klint - a six kilometer stretch of tall chalk cliffs over Baltic Sea.

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We picked a short hike that takes one through a prairie to steep stairs winding to the seaside with the white cliff to the back. At the end of the hike, there were no trail markers in a foreign language, nor buildings or structures to indicate the location of the place on the planet. For a brief moment, I felt I was not too far from home.

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tags: europe, travel, day-hike
categories: travel, day hikes
Wednesday 03.18.20
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