Using the scene’s reflection from an infrared filter screwed onto the 4×5 view camera’s lens I was able to roughly simulate the sensitivity of the Silver Gelatin emulsion on the glass plate image. This allowed me to only capture the Ultra Violet and a portion of the blue spectrum on this reflection using a DSLR.
This is a railroad bridge over the Sandy Creek that empties into the Mississippi River to the west, south of the small village of Bagley in Grant County (southwestern Wisconsin). This slough area floods and drains almost every year. The Burlington Northern rail line was submerged during flooding last year. Here’s a BN engine pulling a line of mounted – double statcked shipping containers – heading south.
This photograph was taken on a 4×5 view camera onto 120 roll film loaded in a 6×17 film holder/reel. This film loaded was Rollei Retro 400.
This image was exposed on the same Rollei Retro 400. This bridge spans the Muddy Creek, several miles south of the Sandy Creek bridge shown above. There was maintenance work being done on one of the two tracks at the time. I was hoping to catch a train crossing the bridge and the roar approaching from the north got my attention, but there wasn’t a train after all.
Alexandar Eschweiler is a name familiar to most anyone with an interest in architecture in S.E. Wisconsin. His work includes the Wisconsin Power and Light Building in downtown Milwaukee.
Charles S. Whitney may not be as recognizable a name to architectural historians in Milwaukee. Whitney came to Milwaukee in 1919 after receiving his Civil Engineering degree from Cornell University. He worked for Eschweiler as an engineer until 1923, when Eschweiler brought his three sons into his practice. Whitney moved to New York and became a partner in Ammann and Whitney, an engineering and design firm that became world famous and is known for designing the Walt Whitman Bridge and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York.
Whitney designed the West 6th Street Bridge in Racine in 1928. The bridge is notable for its Terra Cotta bas relief panels. The Neptune styled faces on the side of the bridge provide outlets for storm water collecting on the deck of the bridge.
The Monahan Lookout Tower was constructed in 1934 on a site approximately 35 miles northwest of Eagle River, Wisconsin. This tower is 100′ tall and is capped with a 7’x7′ cabin. The Monahan tower was listed in the National Lookout Tower Register in 2004.
Built in 1869, this bridge was constructed of stone quarried in east-central Wisconsin. The 5-span, 387 foot bridge is located near Beloit in south-central Wisconsin. A Chicago engineer named Van Mienen designed the bridge for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company. Van Mienen’s work was reportedly inspired by a stone arch bridge in Campiegne, France
Camped in the Chequamegon National Forest west of Westboro, Wisconsin. The moon was three-quarters full and, when not blocked by the forest canopy, cast a lit edge along the flowage.
I hiked on the Ice Age Trail east from Forest Road 108 and followed a semi-primitive lobe trail to the south. The trail rimmed a bog that opened as a small lake.
The head of this small plant is suffering from Uncombable Hair Syndrome, otherwise known as Albert Einstein hair.
Photo of sand cliff erosion on Lake Michigan shoreline using 4×5 black and white sheet film.
It was a cold, drab, and damp day on Lake Champlain yesterday. I’m finishing a short business trip to Burlington, Vermont and since I remembered to bring a camera and I had a spare hour late in the afternoon, I walked to the lakefront to see how the winter wears on the lake.
I was up early this weekend shooting in downtown Milwaukee during the earliest light before sunrise. Once I was finished before the civil dawn, I thought I’d take the time to capture the sun rising over a low cloud-deck above Lake Michigan. This landmark Art Museum building, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, makes an interesting foreground subject for a lakefront sunrise.
Here’s what the inside of this building looks like from a photo I took earlier this year:
This is what the building looks like when the wings are lifted:
