Scott Holcomb's photos with the keyword: Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105 lens

A visit to Cottonwood Narrows begins by entering the twilight zone This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105 lens with a HOYA 67mm INFRARED (R72) filter using Rollei IR 400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop. [Tripod Support - f=5.6 1/15 second] Commercially developed by Oscars Photo Lab - Dunk Method with IR protocols using CLAYTON F76 Plus FILM DEVELOPER - 68°F @ 1+9 for 7 minutes

Photo locations sometimes have challenges! This photo was taken by a Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera with a Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105 lens using Fujicolor Reala 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized with Photoshop.

Deep in the canyon-country of southern Utah is a beautiful state park called Kodachrome Basin where there are 67 sandstone pillars from a few feet to 52 feet across, which stand vertically as high as 172 feet above the basin floor. Composition of the pillars consists of rounded pebbles, cobbles, carbonized wood, and wildly tilted meter-sized blocks of sedimentary rock, all floating in a matrix of well-cemented sandstone. The sandstone matrix matches in composition with a layer known to be buried 300 feet below the basin floor suggesting that these pillars were somehow suddenly injected upward. Eventually the sediment de-watered and turned to stone, but for whatever reason, the injected sand bodies or injectites hardened to a greater degree than their surrounding host-rock. Erosion later preferentially removed the softer host-rock, exposing as stony pillars or “pipes” what had once been conduits for the explosively injected sand slurries. Just how this process occurred is a mystery. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 67mm SY48•2C(Y2) filter using Bergger Pancro400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Most people are familiar with icebergs. They are a hazard to maritime traffic and have caused dramatic catastrophes such as the sinking of the Titanic. Little notice has been paid to the terrestrial form, the rockberg. Generally, they are found in remote areas and when they calve off of a major canyon, they are not a great threat to towns and cities. This big rockberg may be an exception, however. It is enormous and is drifting across the plain at an astonishing speed, threatening any townships and villages in it’s path. I have alerted the USGS (United States Geological Survey) of it’s existence, course and speed. So far I have not heard back from them. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 67mm SY44•2C(Y1) filter using Bergger Pancro 400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

The Marine Layer battles it's way through Golden Gate Strait against the heat of summer. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera with a Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105 lens and Hoya R-72 filter using Rollei Retro 400S film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

There are other options than the gaudy casinos of Las Vegas in this sector of Nevada, such as the pictured Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera with a Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105 lens using Fuji 160NS film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Reaching into the heights. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105 lens using Rollei CN200 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

It is a rock-hard life for those few trees that have managed to eek out an existence in this rigid environment. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera with a Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105 lens and Promaster Y2 ø67 filter using Rollei RPX 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

You can have your cake and eat it, too. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera with a Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105 lens using Fuji 400-H film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

A vista point in Joshua Tree National Park where jumping the fence is discouraged. This photo was taken by a Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105 lens with a Kowa Y2 ø67 filter using Fomapan 200 Creative film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.