Album Monochrome from Berny

Kraftwerk R

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:40:38 +0000

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The coal fired power plant was built in 1906-1907, extended in 1925-1929 and ceased operation in 1966.

Torres del Paine - Laguna Azul

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 08:28:01 +0000

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seen from Lago Azul - Patagonia
scanned slide, Minolta X700

Lago Posadas - space ships passing

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:13:18 +0000

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dark version

Chicago River - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 08:28:52 +0000

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Chicago is also the city of drawbridges over the Chicago river. Here you see the closed "Irv Kupcinet Bridge" and the open "Bataan-Correqidor Memorial Bridge" and "Dearborn Street Bridge". To the right the residential skyscrapers Marina City I and II as seen on the image before.

scanned slide, Minolta X700

Chicago from Sears Tower - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:34:16 +0000

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This view goes to North-East. The two circular towers are Marina City I and II, built 1960-1962. Each has 61 floors and is 179 m high. More informations here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_City

scanned slide, Minolta X-700, Minolta 70-210mm

Pine Creek Canyon Overlook - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 07:55:32 +0000

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desert - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:47:05 +0000

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Mojave Yucca (Yucca schidigera) on the wayside of Nevada State Road 160 west of Las Vegas. One of the important "yucca complex" of native foods it was roasted and eaten. Its flowers are sweet and were also eaten as ma-huve-gar. Strong leaf fibers were used for weaving, sewing and fastening into garments and sandals. Pith was used for soap and shampoo and the leaves made a slow match for "relocating" fire. The food and fibers could also be stored.

scanned slide, Minolta X700

Rhyolite Ghost Town - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 18:09:27 +0000

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Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nevada, near the eastern boundary of Death Valley National Park. The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold rush, thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners and service providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine.

Owens Lake and Sierra Nevada - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 09:50:28 +0000

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Owens Valley - lonesome tree 1986 - HFF!

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 09:14:57 +0000

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With this new scans of old slides I try my best to add the location as geotag. This is sometimes quite difficult and becomes an obsession. Yesterday I searched for hours in Google Earth and Google Street View, until I found it finally (see Google Street View below). Happy and sad at the same time, because the wonderful old tree has collapsed in the meantime and has been cut into pieces. Anyway - HFF and stay safe and happy, folks!

Nevada Fall and Liberty Cap - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:52:53 +0000

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Liberty Cap is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park. It lies to the north of Nevada Fall, near the John Muir Trail. Its peak elevation is 2158 m. The PiP shows the domes of Liberty Cap and Half Dome in the background on another day.

scanned slide, Minolta X700

Yosemite - Nevada Fall - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 08:46:26 +0000

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with one observer on top, seen from "Mist Trail"
Nevada Fall has a total height of 181 m. It is located below the granite dome Liberty Cap.
scanned slide, Minolta X700

Yosemite - Merced River - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 19:45:17 +0000

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Niagara Falls - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 19:49:27 +0000

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The right bank side of Horseshoe Falls at the Canadian-US border, seen from the boat "Maid of the Mist". People in the upper left of the image are standing on Goat Island.

scanned slide, Minolta X700

Yosemite - Tunnel View - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:28:02 +0000

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El Capitán to the left, Bridalveil Falls to the right, seen from "Tunnel View"

Yosemite Falls - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:15:15 +0000

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I took this photo in 1986 with a Fujichrome 100 and a Minolta X700, scanned with a Nikon SuperCoolScan 5000 and postprocessed with Photoshop and Silver Efex Pro 2.

Concerning monochrome and Yosemite: Search for Ansel Adams in the internet and you will find a lot of beautiful monochrome photos by this famous artist, which he took in this National Park.

El Capitán - light and shadow - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 09:03:35 +0000

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another view from east-southeast
scanned slide, Minolta X700

Yosemite - El Capitán - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 08:21:19 +0000

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This almost 1000 m high wall is exciting from different angles.....

scanned slide, Minolta X700

Transamerica Pyramid - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 08:45:45 +0000

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The tallest skyscraper in San Francisco from 1969 to 2017 - 260 m and 48 floors.

San Francisco sailing - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:06:03 +0000

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