Posted by Adam Schallau on March 1, 2012 at 10:51 PM
It's time share some of your forgotten photos in this month's theme: Archive Dive.
Perhaps it's an image that you meant to work on but didn't, or you worked it up but never shared it here on RMNP. This is also a chance to look back at shots you might have taken years ago that are hiding on your hard drive, or in the old slide collection, and find hidden gems you missed before.
Post'em if you've got'em!
Posted by Adam Schallau on March 2, 2012 at 12:05 AM
I'll get us started with an image from 2006. This is along the Rio Grande south of Alamosa and just a few miles from the Colorado/New Mexico state line.
Absolutley lovely, Adam. Nice use of dark negative space as has been discussed in a recent post.
I guess I'll start it off with one I had never worked on from Fall of 2008. A must stop in the fall in Colorado, of course.
The Kebler Reds.
Posted by Peter Coskun on March 2, 2012 at 8:58 PM
This was when I first began shooting wildlife and was getting serious into nature photography (2009). This shot wasn't planned, but while driving behind grand canyon village, we saw this mule deer beside the tracks foraging in the grasses. Just as I put on the big lens it started to rain pretty heavily. Luckily, I was in a car, and shot from inside with the window down. This was really the first image that felt "wild" to me despite the railroad behind. It is one of my favorite wildlife images I've taken, and haven't had a similar experience since then.
A timely topic for me, since I've been spending the last month cleaning out old file folders.
Here's one from 2006 - Snowy Egret in mating plumage, starting a courting dance.
500mm + 2xTC + ~ 50% crop
Posted by Howard Cihak on March 3, 2012 at 9:21 AM
A mid-afternoon image of Bryce Canyon. I love the challenge of backlit scenes, especially when part of the scene is in shadow and part of it reflected light like this one.
Posted by Howard Cihak on March 3, 2012 at 9:24 AM
"There's a storm across the valley, clouds are rollin' in,
the afternoon's heavy on your shoulder ..."
"Back Home Again", John Denver
One of my favorite places, the Bitterroot Valley in Western Montana.
Posted by Doug Beezley on March 4, 2012 at 1:09 PM
"Griz in a bliz" taken in a Yellowstone snow storm, May 2008.
This was taken a couple of years ago, but I had it cropped to 5 x 4 originally. Upon revisiting it seemed to have a bit more breathing room at 16 x 9 (pseudo-pano, if you will).
A quick trip to Devil's Tower two years ago turned out better than I could have imagined. Wasn't expecting a rising moon which turned out to be quite a bonus.
Fine work here as usual. That's gotta be one of the best Devil's Tower images I've seen.
I've had this image from a remote cliff dwelling on Comb Ridge, AZ sittin' in my archives for 7 years now trying to figure out what to do with it.
Ran it through Nik Silver Efex 2 recently and now it's a keeper.
Found one..from 2006. I originally converted this image using Elements 4 and liked it then. Recently I ran it through Nik SilverEfex and I like it even more now.
Some great shots here! My most neglected images are always my star trail shots that are taken on film. I took these in 2010 and 2011, finally developed them last December, and this theme got me motivated to prepare a few for the web tonight.
Here's one which I'm very pleased I kept, despite many things one might criticize, because in addition to having pretty flowers, it happened to be exactly what a client needed! This is the Yampa Bench near Wagon Wheel, Dinosaur National Monument.
And here's one from a few summers back that I always rather liked but never got around to processing. This is the upper Chama basin, far southern Colorado.
Jack B., you need to come down this way sometime!
Posted by Grant Collier on March 13, 2012 at 6:29 PM
And you can type better than I can, Doug. Didn't mean to call you Dough ... sorry!
Posted by Scott Fricke on March 14, 2012 at 12:16 AM
This one is from 2003 probably taken with my old Canon Elan II with Provia 100 film. I was up in Crested Butte for work and for just a few seconds the sun hit the side of the mountain, I felt pretty lucky to capture it.
Posted by Scott Fricke on March 14, 2012 at 12:33 AM
Awesome collection as usual ..
This thread inspired me to do an archive diving and this is what I found from 2010
Posted by Jeff Hackett on March 17, 2012 at 11:22 PM
This one is from Glacier that I recently dug out. I'll use the Wayback Machine for one more.
Posted by Mel Ladewig on March 21, 2012 at 9:38 AM
2000 - Fruit Market, Cancun, Kodak Gold 400
Posted by Paul Martin on March 21, 2012 at 9:13 PM
From 2010 -- after getting lost driving through the night from Denver to the Moab area, I happened to be on this ridgeline as the rising sun hit the windows section of Arches NP. Navigating by headlights over miles of dirt roads proved to be far more difficult than I thought and I wonder now if I could even find this spot again.
Scott, that ridgeline is fantastic. I'd heartily recommend a drum scan of that one -- you might be surprised what a good scan can pull out of it. Provia should hold up reasonably well to 16x24"; certainly to 12x18".
John, if you're ever interested in crawling some slots...
Posted by Doug Koepsel on March 29, 2012 at 4:58 PM
Some really nice images shown above that were hidden in your archives.
Here are a few from the Paria Plateau.
Posted by Doug Koepsel on March 29, 2012 at 5:00 PM
This saguaro cactus image goes back to 1985. I believe I had taken this with a Pentax ME and also with a star filter. A few years ago I finally scanned the slide. Image was snapped a few miles west of Tucson.
Posted by Peter Coskun on March 29, 2012 at 8:49 PM
An image of castle geyser erupting during my visit to yellowstone two summers ago. I liked the image in black and white.
"Calligraphy Grasses", 1998, 35mm Fuji 100 slide film (Superia? The generic.)
I wanted to dig out some images [1] from the RMNP area, [2] shot 10 years ago or more. I know that's not the requirements, but that's what I want to look for. I started shooting seriously in '97, and was in graduate school at the University of Wyoming, but didn't get out that much. Here's one from 1998, shot on a Canon Rebel XS. One of the few images from my first years that I still really like. A nondescript stream near the Big Sandy trailhead in the Winds.
By 2000, I'd picked up a Mamiya 645 and started dragging it around the backcountry. This is the end of a narrow canyon off of the Escalante River. I was teaching at the time, and had a two-week spring break. I was always out in the redrock area...
...except that my dad wanted to visit White Sands National Monument. So in the middle weekend, I drove through New Mexico to pick him up in El Paso, and we went up to White Sands. I can't believe it's been 10 years since I've been there; I've wanted to go back ever since.
"Clearing Storm over Cedar Breaks", 2001, 645 Fuji Velvia (cropped to 4x5)
That summer I headed back to Laramie to finish and defend my graduate thesis; I again didn't get out much. I took a week to drive from Wyoming back to Southern California to start teaching again, and hit Canyonlands and Capitol Reef on the way home and got... nothing. I pulled into Cedar Breaks on my last night out, heading home the next day, and was complaining to myself about not getting anything good over the summer. Ten minutes later a huge thunderstorm hit, and I waited in my '86 Subaru wagon for a half-hour with hail hitting the roof. When it cleared, I wandered over to the rim to see a clearing to the west. About a half-hour later, the amphitheater lit up and I didn't mind the lack of results earlier in the summer!
Great set of pictures Mark! And everyone else too! Here's one more from my hard drive. I was a little disappointed with the comps I brought bakc that evening, but this one caught my eye again recently, a pretty fantastic New Mexico sunset.
Discussion
53 repliesPerhaps it's an image that you meant to work on but didn't, or you worked it up but never shared it here on RMNP. This is also a chance to look back at shots you might have taken years ago that are hiding on your hard drive, or in the old slide collection, and find hidden gems you missed before.
Post'em if you've got'em!
I guess I'll start it off with one I had never worked on from Fall of 2008. A must stop in the fall in Colorado, of course.
The Kebler Reds.
Here's one from 2006 - Snowy Egret in mating plumage, starting a courting dance.
500mm + 2xTC + ~ 50% crop
the afternoon's heavy on your shoulder ..."
"Back Home Again", John Denver
One of my favorite places, the Bitterroot Valley in Western Montana.
Doug Beezley
Snellville, GA
This was taken a couple of years ago, but I had it cropped to 5 x 4 originally. Upon revisiting it seemed to have a bit more breathing room at 16 x 9 (pseudo-pano, if you will).
Finally after two months I can post here again.
Great Devil's Tower photo, Ken!
I've had this image from a remote cliff dwelling on Comb Ridge, AZ sittin' in my archives for 7 years now trying to figure out what to do with it.
Ran it through Nik Silver Efex 2 recently and now it's a keeper.
joe rogers
Fred, you really faked me out - is it Soapstone or Red Mountain Ranch?
Jack B., you need to come down this way sometime!
This self portrait is from a slot canyon in the Navajo Nation.
This thread inspired me to do an archive diving and this is what I found from 2010
John, if you're ever interested in crawling some slots...
Here are a few from the Paria Plateau.
I wanted to dig out some images [1] from the RMNP area, [2] shot 10 years ago or more. I know that's not the requirements, but that's what I want to look for. I started shooting seriously in '97, and was in graduate school at the University of Wyoming, but didn't get out that much. Here's one from 1998, shot on a Canon Rebel XS. One of the few images from my first years that I still really like. A nondescript stream near the Big Sandy trailhead in the Winds.
By 2000, I'd picked up a Mamiya 645 and started dragging it around the backcountry. This is the end of a narrow canyon off of the Escalante River. I was teaching at the time, and had a two-week spring break. I was always out in the redrock area...
...except that my dad wanted to visit White Sands National Monument. So in the middle weekend, I drove through New Mexico to pick him up in El Paso, and we went up to White Sands. I can't believe it's been 10 years since I've been there; I've wanted to go back ever since.
That summer I headed back to Laramie to finish and defend my graduate thesis; I again didn't get out much. I took a week to drive from Wyoming back to Southern California to start teaching again, and hit Canyonlands and Capitol Reef on the way home and got... nothing. I pulled into Cedar Breaks on my last night out, heading home the next day, and was complaining to myself about not getting anything good over the summer. Ten minutes later a huge thunderstorm hit, and I waited in my '86 Subaru wagon for a half-hour with hail hitting the roof. When it cleared, I wandered over to the rim to see a clearing to the west. About a half-hour later, the amphitheater lit up and I didn't mind the lack of results earlier in the summer!
Thanks for looking!