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Sample
Photos
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| Animals
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Arizona Photos
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| How Furry Lewis observed his 10th
birthday party |
Rattlesnake, Sierra foothills |
The Four Peaks |
View from Cape Royal |
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| Artifacts - Man-Made
Subjects |
Bluegrass
T-Shirts |
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| House in
Mendocino Village |
Barn, Fresno
CA 1966 |
Kings River Festival, Sanger CA,
2001 |
Parkfield Bluegrass Festival,
Parkfield CA, 2004 |
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| Borrowed
Photos |
Central California
Scenery |
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| Rod
Neely at Plumas County Fire, August 1999 |
"When
Joel went out west in 1891" |
Falls
on Pegleg Creek near Highway 49, Mariposa County |
Millerton Lake, San Joaquin River |
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| Colorado
Photos |
Fender Tucker Makes a Book |
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| State Capitol (with real gold on the
dome) |
Looking west at Denver from
Cherry Creek State Park |
A few books, clamped together to keep
things straight |
A hot iron keeps the glue warm as the
book and cover come together |
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| Fire
Photos |
Flowers, Plants and
Trees |
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| Flames
dominate the landscape at the Hunter Fire |
Dan
Patchett & Francoise Tremblay at the Hunter Fire
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Near San
Miguel |
Echium plant at
Mendocino |
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| Four Wheel Driving |
Loadstar
Disk Magazine Photos |
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| Jeremy's Jeep |
Over the top |
Issue 44 |
Issue 45 |
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| Merrill's
Saw Mill
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Midwestern
United States
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| Log rollway, 1935 |
Billy Lewis & Jimmy Carlton,
1939 |
Ohio |
Minnesota |
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| Nevada Photos |
Northern
California Scenery |
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| Basin in central Nevada |
Arch in Valley of Fire State Park |
Mt. Shasta
from the south |
Russian
River along Highway 116, inland from Jenner |
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| Old
Mariposa (The Charlie Walker Collection) |
Oregon
Photos |
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| Charlie
Walker's garage, early 1920s |
Downtown
Mariposa, facing north, 1920s |
Mt. Hood from Dufur |
Crater Lake |
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| Parkfield,
CA |
People |
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| Cholame Creek north of town |
One of two fountains in the town |
Donnie over Teddy in a knockout |
A misty day in
Blue Canyon |
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Redwood
Gallery |
Sierra
Nevada Mountains |
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| General Grant
Tree, Kings Canyon Park |
Bull Buck
Tree, Nelder Grove |
Falls
on North Fork of the Kings River, near Balch Camp |
Tehipite Dome from south |
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| Sky
& Weather |
Southern
California |
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| Clouds |
Fresno Sunrise |
Holes at Mojave
Preserve were created by
volcanic gas bubbles plus weathering |
Joshua Tree and Rock Formations |
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| Southeastern
US |
Utah
Photos |
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| Southern Mississippi Bayou |
Full size Saturn rocket replica |
Double Arch |
Canyonlands
Nat'l Park |
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| Waterfalls |
Western
United States |
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| Waterfall near Chilkoot
Campground |
Spring
waterfall on road
above Balch Camp |
Wyoming |
Montana |
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| Camera
Information
I started taking
pictures when I was about ten years old, using (what else?) a Kodak Brownie
camera. In his younger days, my dad had done some photo processing, so we
got out his old trays, bought a cheap film developing tank, and gave it a
try. The poor quality of the equipment, and the difficulty of creating a
darkroom in our one bathroom house caused us to abandon the effort after a
couple of rolls. In addition, we had no enlarger, so all we could make were
tiny prints the size of 127 film, about 2.5 by 1.5 inches. A few of the
older family photos were
probably taken with this camera or its successors. I
continued to take pictures, however, eventually getting into color slides
and a few rolls of color print film. While working at a TV station in
Bakersfield, I was able to borrow several different 35 mm cameras, and that
became my preferred format. I eventually bought a second-hand Nikorex
camera, which I always assumed was a low end product from Nikon, but it
could have been an even lower end imitation. I also acquired equipment for
developing and printing, including an enlarger, and made many black and
white photos this way (this
is one of my favorite examples). The
Nikorex reached the end of its useful life, and I finally bought a Nikon,
which was stolen in 1987. My insurance covered a replacement, which served
me well over the next dozen years. Many of the photos on these pages were
scanned from slides taken with the Nikons. In
1999 I bought my first digital camera, a Kodak DC265, and all photos dated
after that time are digital. From 2003 to 2006 I used a Minolta Dimage 7, at
which time I acquired my present camera, a Canon EOS10D digital SLR. The
following year I acquired a Kodak Easy Share, which I use when I'm in places
where I don't want to carry a heavier model. Starting in July, 2010, a few
photos are taken with my cell phone camera when I don't have a regular
camera with me. For
the most part, I let the camera choose the aperture and shutter speed,
although the Canon does have manual controls. It provides a close-up setting
that I use for flowers and other small subjects. As
I've mentioned elsewhere, I
have received a number of compliments on my photos, and I usually point out
that I only share one or two out of fifty shots. --Dick
Estel, August 2009; Updated August 2010 |
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