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Tom Hildreth
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« on: July 20, 2011, 01:54:36 PM » |
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These were shot with several Minolta SLRs, and fixed lenses that included 24mm, 28m, 35mm, 50mm, and 135mm. Also, one roll was put through my Canonet QL19, and a few of these are from that great little camera. This webpage is fairly popular, and my town has placed it on its website. http://www.vermontel.net/~tomh/Bridge8.html |
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Philip
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« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2011, 03:47:49 PM » |
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Tom - great documentation! I enjoyed reading it and seeing the pictures.
Philip
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jamesmck
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« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2011, 03:49:32 PM » |
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Tom - Great story and superb documentation. As for the photos, they are as brilliant and as super-sharp as the text! I take it that you are a member of B8OU, yes? The scans are excellent, and I assume you have done these yourself. May I ask what scanner?
Very well done.
James
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James McKearney
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LarryD
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« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2011, 06:00:57 PM » |
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Excellent.
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Film photography and the Soviet Union are not dead. Just downsized.
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« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2011, 07:08:41 PM » |
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Excellent documetary, Tom. Get some shots when the engineer drives the ceremonial first vehicle to the other side. And I'm sure you will all be glad to have your road open again.
PF
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Towermax
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« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2011, 08:48:49 PM » |
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Fascinating stuff, Tom--I enjoyed both your excellent photos and great description.
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« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2011, 03:18:12 AM » |
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Let me add my congratulations and appreciation, Tom. I enjoyed your historical background and your technical descriptions nearly as much as the photos. It's very cool that you were allowed to document everything, not being directly involved in the project and all.
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Pete (Corpus Christi, TX) Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur. - Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995) My Website
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shadowfox
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« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2011, 06:31:15 AM » |
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Tom, that's impressive documentary. Please tell your city folks that they can take awesome pictures like yours if they use film cameras also  |
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Julio1fer
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« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2011, 06:07:55 PM » |
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A great story! I like the Observation Unit work. Everything else looks too tidy.
How long will it take the whole job? It seems to go very quickly indeed.
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Ronald Bishop
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« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2011, 08:45:34 PM » |
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Great photos Tom,those old Minoltas and Canons,plus your expertise gave you some very good photos. Did you work on the bridge also? You sure put in some great details.
About 40 years ago I hauled a few of the bridge beams, they were single 'I' beams a little over 60 ft. long and about 6 ft deep. We used a truck with a bunk on it and a steering trailer under the rear,there was a driver under the beam and he steered it from there.{it was an old truck chassis striped down with a box built just a little back from where the engine used to be and the seat was about a foot off the ground.}
A bridge like you have here would have taken us at least six weeks + to put up.
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Ronald Bishop
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« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2011, 04:01:34 PM » |
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Did you work on the bridge also?
I guess it pays to read the small print,my question was answered ??
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Kalkadan
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« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2011, 06:30:57 PM » |
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Tom - I just love documentary style sets of photos. These are great. The exposures are spot on and the angles of view you have chosen (what a wonderful array of lenses you have!) draw the view right in to what is going on to the extent that you are not conscious of the camera. Unless of course you are an inhabitant of Nelsonfoto :eek:
Dan
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Tom Hildreth
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« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2011, 04:43:44 PM » |
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All,
My apology for taking so long to get back to you. I appreciate the great positive response from you all.
I did not work on the bridge, but the employees of the bridge company have a refreshing attitude and are very acessable to the local people, especially those affected by the work. Also, there has been NO trash generated by these guys-they clean up after themselves continually.
The bridge opened up a week early, to everyone's delight, and life has more or less returned to normal. There was even a bridge opening party that included the governor and the bridge laborers. I wasn't in attendance, but the town has enjoyed my work and have placed the link on their website, as has another town-related local website.
All of this was color print film, much of it old and outdated. All photos of the bridge reconstruction were scanned at Wal-Mart and edited at home, though there really wasn't much editing.
Work continues on the sidewalks and concrete upright siderails. Lots of carpentry making the forms is going on right now, some concrete pouring.
Ironically, the day the bridge closed my new car arrived at the dealer. It sat in my driveway because I wasn't about to take it out on the dirt-road detours in town. Those roads suffered from traffic overload and one disasterous rainfall that just about destroyed the effort the town made to prepare them for additional traffic.
I'll show you some shots of the new car when they get back from Dwayne's.
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« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2011, 08:01:29 PM » |
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Those were Wally World scans? Jeez, I might move to your neck of the woods! The scanner they use here (we have four WalMarts, and only one does film on site) is a piece of junk, and their processor is not far behind. So I use the 'pro' shop in the south end, but they don't do much better. Everytime I go there, they find something else to screw up.
As I said before Tom, this is an excellent documentary.
PF
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Tom Hildreth
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« Reply #14 on: August 05, 2011, 05:50:37 AM » |
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Ronald,
"About 40 years ago I hauled a few of the bridge beams, they were single 'I' beams a little over 60 ft. long and about 6 ft deep. We used a truck with a bunk on it and a steering trailer under the rear,there was a driver under the beam and he steered it from there.{it was an old truck chassis striped down with a box built just a little back from where the engine used to be and the seat was about a foot off the ground.}"
I have seen a similar unit going through town about ten years ago. Our Rt. 103 is on the National Highway System, and sees a lot of truck traffic, including that which you described above. Because the town voted down a highway bypass about 35 years ago, all the beam-carrying trucks have to negotiate two 90 deg sharp turns here. That's when I saw a guy get out and start steering the rear bogey under the beam. He started a small gas motor and steered it somehow with long ropes.
Film developement at Wal-Mart locally has declined, and there is only one store (A Super Wal-Mart) that still develops/scans film on a Fuji machine. That's a shame, because one of them that gave up on film actually scanned slides too, and did manual custom image adjusting, something that surprised me when I first learned of it. But then, I never used this service, so I guess I'm part of the problem. When I scan my own stuff, I'm still using my old underrated Minolta Dimage Scan Elite II, which I have had for nine years. I shouldn't say this for fear of jinxing the thing, but a year ago it started malfunctioning during slide feeding. I felt I had nothing to loose so I took it apart, cleaned what needed it, and redistributed some of the original lubrication and it has worked well ever since.
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