michael_vrobel

I've recently started shooting 6x4.5 slides, and now I'm not sure what I should do with the slides I have. Currently, the 120 rolls I have are all in a sleeve, rolled up, and stuck in a cardboard tube. I assume that long-term I need to store them flat. How do you cut the roll of film into individual slides, how do you mount them, how do you store them? Thanks.

I've been shooting in the Cleveland area for a couple of years now. In the area: The Cleveland Metropark's North Chagrin reservation, especially Sanctuary Marsh, has been very good for birds for me; there's a blue heron there every year during the summer. If you don't mind shooting controlled animals, the Lake County metroparks has their wildlife rehabilitation center in Kirtland. The Cuyahoga Valley has many good spots; there is a Blue Heron rookery on Bath road, and the Beaver Pond is an excellent site for many different birds...and beavers, too, if you're lucky. For landscape oriented pictures, the Lake Erie shoreline has many opportunites. The Cuyahoga Valley is also very nice for lanscape shots. Brandywine Falls comes to mind in particular.

 

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I'd look for the 'watchable wildlife' book for Ohio. It lists a lot of good sites in the area. (I'm typing this off the top of my head, so I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of places.) As you can tell, I'm into bird photography; for that, I would also recommend the 'Birds of NE Ohio' pamphlet - available at the Cuyahoga Valley Recreation Area's book store. It lists a lot of good sites for birding, and nature in general.

I like the tighter focus. There are many places on the net you can go to get the other questions answered. And, as many other people have said, the Photo.Net Q&A section provides a good forum for general questions. One of the primary reasons I read the Nature Q&A is that I don't have to dig through all the other, unrelated posts.