REFLECTIVE PHOTOGRAPHER
 
 

My large format work is about being present and consciously taking the necessary time. When I find this to be frustrating as conditions can change so quickly, it bring attention and awareness to just how quickly, and how much, change is in life at any given moment.

 

Things People Make - Frame3
Keith Canham Traditional 8x10 - (Voigtländer 165mm Skopar) ISO 125, 1/100 @ f/25
Ilford HP4 5x7 in Adox Rodinal 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 5x7) (captured 2023-10-08 00:00:00)
Another structure after fishing season. Personally I really like how this turned out.


Empty Sign - Brought to you by the letter Z
Keith Canham Traditional 8x10 - (Fujinon 210mm f/6.3) ISO 100, 1/30 @ f/32
Ilford Delta 100 Pro 8x10 in Adox Rodinal 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 8x10) (captured 2023-09-23 00:00:00)
After, even during, fishing season there are a ton of different driftwood based structures.


Things People Make - Frame2
Keith Canham Traditional 8x10 - (Voigtländer 165mm Skopar) ISO 200, 1/30 @ f/25
FPP Frankenstein 4x5 in Adox Rodinal 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 4x5) (captured 2023-07-30 00:00:00)
On the same beach this second frame of the same day. A little fort aside the beach.


Things People Make - Frame1
Keith Canham Traditional 8x10 - (Voigtländer 165mm Skopar) ISO 200, 1/30 @ f/36
FPP Frankenstein 4x5 in Adox Rodinal 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 4x5) (captured 2023-07-30 00:00:00)
There is a lot of fishing during the season and quite a lot of people come out to the beaches to fish during the summer vacations. There are a ton of left over objects and things people make and build. All sorts of structures and collections of things.


Bones of the Fish 3
Canham Traditional 8x10 - (Caltar-S II 14 ¼” (360mm)) ISO 100, 1/25 @ f/8
Ilford HP4 5x7 in Adox Rodinal 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 5x7) (captured 2022-10-16 00:00:00)
Within Crockett Lake there are seven wooden fish structures near an old railway pillars. This is number 3 in the series of 6. The last two are small and doubled up in one image.


SR20 Halloween Scarecrow
Canham Traditional 8x10 - (Caltar-S II 14 ¼” (360mm)) , 1/25 @ f/8.5
Ilford Delta Pro 100 8x10 in Adox Rodinal 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 4x5) (captured 2022-10-16 00:00:00)
This scarecrow is a regular sighting on the west side of SR20 during Halloween.


Expired Film - Expired Structure 1
Agfa/Ansco 8x10 Universal View Camera - (Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-s 210/370mm f/5.6) ISO 50, 1/25 @ f/45
Kodak Super Panchro Press Type B (Exp1963) 8x10 in Adox Rodinal 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 4x5) (captured 2022-07-23 00:00:00)
Using old expired film is fascinating to me. This is the start of the parallel project to “Structures of Impermanence” but using expired film giving the final image a gritty aged look and feel that can't be duplicated by addons, filters or presets.


Structures Of Impermanence - Sloped Shanty
Agfa/Ansco 5x7 Universal View Camera - (Wollensak Versar 6.5x8.5 Portrait & View Lens (~240mm)) ISO 125, 1/50 @ f/45
Ilford HP4 5x7 in Adox Rodinal 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 5x7) (captured 2022-02-22 11:13:00)
Made a stop at a local area where these are built the day before and found this new one. Returned the next day with luckily the same grey overcast but sometimes the sun broke through the clouds conditions.


Enshrouded Lighthouse
Agfa/Ansco 8x10 Universal View Camera - (Wollensak Raptar 135mm) ISO 100, 1/50 @ f/22
Ilford Delta 100 4x5 in Adox Rodinal 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 4x5) (captured 2022-01-15 13:39:00)
Admiralty Head Lighthouse at Fort Casey wrapped in a thick fog that rolls through every so often. I was lucky enough to have a day on the weekend to capture this image.


On the Fence
Agfa/Ansco 8x10 Universal View Camera - (Wollensak Velostigmat 12" SF f/4.5) ISO 80, 1/4 @ f/6.3
CatLabs CatLabs X 80 in Adox Rodinal 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 11x14) (captured 2022-01-15 00:00:00)
On 2nd street in Langley WA there is a small café next to the post office that has this stationary bicycle welded to the fence.


Light Frost
Agfa/Ansco 8x10 Universal View Camera - (Wollensak Velostigmat Series II 12" (~305mm) (Soft Focus)) ISO 80, 1s @ f/8
CatLabs X Film 80 8x10 in Adox Rodinal 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 4x5) (captured 2022-01-09 08:48:00)
I've wanted to capture this image for some time and on a frosty morning these dried blossoms were half covered in frost. Using a 1915 Wollensak 12" Velostigmat Series II f/4.5 with soft focus set at +2 I'm happy with the results.


Willowood Farm of Ebey's Prairie
Agfa/Ansco 8x10 Universal View Camera - (Wollensak Versar 6.5x8.5 Portrait & View Lens (~240mm)) ISO 80, 1/30 @ f/32
CatLabs X Film 80 8x10 in Adox Rodinal 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 5x7) (captured 2021-12-19 12:25:00)
Looking across the fields of Willowood Farm, the house just a spot in the land. This area doesn't get big puffy clouds often and I wanted to show the perspective of the land.


Langley - The Machine Shop
Agfa/Ansco 8x10 Universal View Camera - (Wollensak Versar 6.5x8.5 Portrait & View Lens (~240mm)) ISO 80, 1/25 @ f/22
CatLabs X Film 80 8x10 in Adox Rodinal 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 5x7) (captured 2021-12-19 09:26:00)


1918 Switchboard
Agfa/Ansco 8x10 Universal View Camera - (Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-s 210/370mm f/5.6) ISO 80, 1s @ f/32
CatLabs X Film 80 8x10 in Adox Rondial 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 8x10) (captured 2021-10-30 09:12:00)


Structures Of Impermanence - Shanty With a Window
Agfa/Ansco 5x7 Universal View Camera - (SEROCO 8x10 Rapid Rectilinear) ISO 125, 1/25 @ f/32
Ilford HP4 4x5 in Adox Rondial 1:50
(Crop Ratio: 4x5) (captured 2021-07-05 10:59:00)
There's quite a local beach where these are built and rebuilt and captured this one on a light foggy morning. After having this Bausch & Lomb - Unicum shutter CLA'd it has a Rapid Rectilinear lens on it and I thought I'd give it a go. Even with the large amount of balsam separation on the rear lens (this is where the cement holding the glass together starts to give out) I like the rendering it has. Surprisingly, come to find out, the SEROCO brand is actually the Sears & Roebuck Company. You never know what might do well.


State Route 20 Truck
Agfa/Ansco 5x7 Universal View Camera - ( Voigtländer Skopar 165mm) ISO 125, 1/200 @ f/9
Ilford HP4 5x7 in Adox Rondial 1:25
(Crop Ratio: 4x5) (captured 2021-06-19 12:36:00)
Featured: Entered in Whidbey Island County Fair, 2021
Local truck on the side of state route 20. Often decorated for the appropriate season.


What Used to be a Doorway
Agfa/Ansco 5x7 Universal View Camera - (Voigtlnder Skopar 165mm) ISO 125, 1/25 @ f/25
Ilford HP4 5x7 in Adox Rondial 1:25
(Crop Ratio: 1x1) (captured 2021-06-16 09:43:00)
Doorway at Fort Casey


State Route 20 Tractor
Agfa/Ansco 5x7 Universal View Camera - (Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-s 210/370mm f/5.6) ISO 125, 1/50 @ f/32
Ilford HP4 5x7 in Adox Rondial 1:25
(Crop Ratio: 4x5) (captured 2021-05-30 12:07:00)
Featured: Entered in Whidbey Island County Fair, 2021
A tractor on State Route 20. It's a common landmark for those that know it.


Expired Film - Leaning Tree Take Two
Agfa/Ansco 5x7 Universal View Camera - (Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-s 210/370mm f/5.6) ISO 25, 60s @ f/22
Agfa Super Plenachrome (Expired Feb 1945) 5x7 (film pack) in Ilford Ilfotec HC
(Crop Ratio: 5x7) (captured 2021-05-29 12:43:00)
The tree is a common subject for me and this version on expired film from 1945, is pretty amazing in itself that it actually captured an image. The blurriness only comes from the minute long exposure and the cars that drove by which shows in the dark horizontal lines and haziness at the bottom of the image.


Expired Film - AGFA Super Plenachrome Frame 12
Agfa/Ansco 5x7 Universal View Camera - (Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-s 210/370mm f/5.6) ISO 25, 60s @ f/32
Agfa Super Plenachrome (Expired Feb 1945) 5x7 (film pack) in Ilford Ilfotec HC
(Crop Ratio: 5x7) (captured 2021-05-09 00:00:00)
Another capture, it looks almost as if someone has painted the emulsion on by hand.


Expired Film - AGFA Super Plenachrome Frame 11
Agfa/Ansco 5x7 Universal View Camera - (Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-s 210/370mm f/5.6) ISO 25, 60s @ f/32
Agfa Super Plenachrome (Expired Feb 1945) 5x7 (film pack) in Ilford Ilfotec HC
(Crop Ratio: 5x7) (captured 2021-05-09 00:00:00)
Even though exposed to capture an image I really like the way the emulsion has created its own abstract.


Soul of the Tree
Agfa/Ansco 5x7 Universal View Camera - (Wollensak Versar 6.5x8.5 Portrait & View Lens (~240mm)) ISO 80, 1/100 @ f/11
Ilford Delta 100 Pro 5x7 in Adox Rodinal 1:25
(Crop Ratio: 1x1) (captured 2021-05-08 08:57:00)
At one of my normal haunts, driftwood beach, I was backing out I happened to see this shoe hanging on the rootball of a large tree. Of course I had to stop and break out the camera!


Expired Film - Leaning Tree
Agfa/Ansco 5x7 Universal View Camera - (Wollensak Versar 6.5x8.5 Portrait & View Lens (~240mm)) ISO 50, 2s @ f/32
Agfa Super Plenachrome (Expired Feb 1945) 5x7 (film pack) in Ilford Ilfotec HC
(Crop Ratio: 5x7) (captured 2021-04-25 10:32:00)
Featured: Entered in Whidbey Island County Fair, 2021
A favorite tree just down the road + expired film from 1945 and amazingly it worked! At least one of the several frames I exposed.


Structures Of Impermanence - Triangle Shanty
Agfa/Ansco 5x7 Universal View Camera - (Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-s 210/370mm f/5.6) ISO 100, 1/100 @ f/11
Ilford Delta 100 Pro 5x7 in Adox Rodinal 1:25
(Crop Ratio: 5x7) (captured 2021-04-11 10:07:00)


Expired Film - The Door
Agfa/Ansco 5x7 Universal View Camera - (Wollensak Velostigmat Series II 7.5" (~190mm)) ISO 25, 1/2 @ f/22
Agfa Super Plenachrome (Expired Feb 1945) 5x7 (film pack) in Ilford Ilfotec HC
(Crop Ratio: 5x7) (captured 2021-03-12 11:10:00)
First shot of the Agfa Super Plenachrome film. Wasn't sure how or even if it would work with it being expired as of Feb 1945!


Fort Casey Lookouts
Agfa/Ansco 5x7 Universal View Camera - (NIKKOR-SW 90mm)
Ilford Delta 100 Pro 5x7 (Crop Ratio: 5x7) (captured 2021-02-07 10:10:00)
Looking back from the shore line firing bunkers to the lookout bunkers