Anyone into Photography?

[Juss]

I was hoping to get people's minds away from the emotional and physical pain for a few moments. Does anyone else shoot film? Or anyone into photography? If so, please post. I was big into Urbex before the name existed, wish that I could find those archives.

These are from an archived catalog that came out of nowhere, weird how things pop up out of nowhere. PLEASE POST them if you have them. I had to start a second reply b/c I'm not the most gifted when it comes to hosting files (it took me a moment).

Most of these are from film negatives scanned in, some are digital. I could get technical but in this edit realize KISS is best.

My cameras were either a Nikon F or Minolta X 700. I cared less about the body and far more about the quality of the lens, filter, and film. My film of choice was Fuji Neopan, Fuji Pro 400H, Fuji Velvia 50 and sometimes Kodak Ektar, and though too rich for my blood Kodak Portra 400.

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[Juss]

 

I needed my dopamine fix and so we tracked out in a state of emergency and serious tropical storm to McKedlin Area, Patapsco State Park,  and my amateur- no experience friend took over the camera (I think this was way back 13 years ago).

I wasn't scared of a raging tide, after all, I was a previously sponsored big-wave and known surfer in Ocean City. What was a little waterfall going to do to me? I wish that I could find the footage of me dropping in on 20-foot caps. 

 

Now for some light painting fun
 

 

Back to Basics

I in my prime had to be in the late 2000s. Damn the money and fun, oh well.

 

Old Stomping Grounds Deal Island (Eastern Shore) long before the ex misses when I was a wild eye Southern Boy

Flowers
 

 

[BoscoPiko]

Cool picks! The ones in front of the waterfall are really cool. Only place I've seen waterfalls like that were in Hawaii. 

[Juss]

Thank you. Maryland is unique in that on one end we have mountains (up to I thinK 3,000 feet) and on the another extreme, 3.5 hours away full-on beach (you guys would call it an ocean).

It's small enough in milage that a tropical storm can reach the first mountain range, the Catoctin Mountains, which is where this was taken (Outside Ellicott City, HOCO, Howard County). You also have Appalachia, and God some mountain range way out in bumfu#% Garret County. We also used to have blizzards and where I lived averaged 40 inches of snow. The last bad winter was 2010, we had a 3-foot blizzard, then another, followed a week later by another. 

Anyway, I went out in a state of an emergency under the guise that I had an electrical hazard that was pending fire hazard, and that I needed to rewire and fix some things.  And, from there, we took my panel work van (if not obvious) and snuck out to a state park. The rest follows. I was a former idiot that surfed in Hurricanes and so, a waterfall didn't scare me. Yes, to the point if any bigger I would have been towed into the wave.
 

The rest are from Balwmer (how we pronounce it) or where I miss and hope to live again my old stomping grounds-Old EC (Ellicott City). Aside from the political aspect, it's a great state. We have the best hospitals, universities, and they say it is expensive, but compared to other locations you can make significantly more.