Mirrored Sky

35mm Film Scans


Scans from my old 35mm strip negatives. Photos taken between December 1991 and October 1996, using a Fuji Discovery 80 point-and-shoot (which, it has to be said, had a few shortcomings as a camera). Scanned using a Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED film scanner.

Mirrored Sky

12 Apr 1994 112
Sunset over the breaking ice at McClain State Park, Hancock, Michigan, April 8, 1994. As I recall, I was standing near the edge of the icepack, above about ten feet of water and about fifty feet from shore...not especially smart.

Snowy Shoreline

17 Sep 2007 86
Lake Michigan shoreline near Empire, MI, on December 26, 1995.

Blue Sunset

17 Sep 2007 87
Appropriate, given that we heard about Kurt Cobain's suicide on the way to the park that afternoon. From McClain State Park, Hancock, MI, April 8, 1994.

1995 Xmas Dune Pics - 011

17 Sep 2007 69
Lake Michigan shoreline from Sleeping Bear Dunes, near Empire, MI, on December 26, 1995.

Water Glass

17 Sep 2007 75
Slabs of rock under the water, taken from the edge of the pack ice at McClain State Park, Hancock, MI, April 8, 1994.

Upper Entry

17 Sep 2007 69
The Upper Entry Lighthouse at the north end of the Keweenaw Waterway, from McClain State Park, Hancock, MI, April 8, 1994.

Porcupine Mountains

19 Sep 2007 89
October 1994.

Porcupine Mountains

19 Sep 2007 74
October 1994.

Porcupine Mountains

19 Sep 2007 74
October 1994.

Porcupine Mountains

19 Sep 2007 68
October 1994.

Porcupine Mountains

19 Sep 2007 67
October 1994.

Wuerzburg

19 Sep 2007 83
Marienhof, overlooking Wuerzburg, Germany. July 1995.

Mackinac Tower

19 Sep 2007 82
The south tower of the Mackinac Bridge, Labor Day 1996.

Misery Bay

19 Sep 2007 97
Lake Superior near Ontonagon, Michigan, Labor Day weekend, 1996. Despite the place's name (and reputation), the weather was perfect, the lake was warm enough to swim in, and the usual clouds of biting insects were nowhere to be seen.

Dollface - Curved

29 Sep 2007 78
A really disturbing dolls-head, found in the stamp sand at an old copper mill. June 1994. Added some severe manipulation of the color curves. Really brings out the eyes. And not in a good way.

Dollface

29 Sep 2007 121
A really disturbing dolls-head, found in the stamp sand at an old copper mill. June 1994. I've always been both drawn to and repelled by the weirdness of this picture, and I remember being a bit spooked even while taking it. This version is pretty much as-is, only gamma-shifted to enhance the B-W contrast a bit. Time and exposure to UV and the stamp sand had turned the doll head's hair pink and its vinyl skin a ruddy grey. If you click on the map link, you can actually see the stamp sand on the satellite view, stretching a half-mile out from the mill and several miles south along the Lake Superior shoreline. Couldn't get away with creating a moonscape like that nowadays.

Santorini Panorama

23 Feb 2009 109
Looking towards Ia and Therassia, I think, from Fira.

Barge Crane

23 Feb 2009 63
An antique crane used for loading and unloading barges. Along the riverbank in Wuerzburg.

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