gordon_lukesh1

<p>If you take my picture and use it in a photograph you sell, and I am clearly identifiable, I will sue your butt. Many of you have no idea of personal privacy and/or copyright law. Have your checkbook ready when you meet me. I'll have my lawyer...</p>

<p>We did MV, the loop road, a couple summers ago.. 16 westerns, eight with John Wayne, were filmed there, but you need a guide to see those spots. My all time fav "Once Upon a Time in the West" was filmed there.</p>

<p>We stayed a couple nights in Kayenta, about 30 miles south. Depending on your personal choice, remember that Kayernta and the surrounding areas are on the Navajo Nation, aka "Dry". Canyon de Chelly is worth a side trip and off season you can buy native art really cheaply, you are not ripping them off. Window Rock is worth a try.</p>

<p>Take a look at <a href="http://www.vistablackandwhiteoftaos.com">www.vistablackandwhiteoftaos.com</a> for some images.</p>

<p>Marvin:</p>

<p>We went to Moscow in 2005 on our way to Tomsk. At that time it was good to have a pocket digital along with our Leicas. My girlfriend used a 135 mm on her M6 and it did attract "attention". We went back in 2008 and times had changed in Moscow. We were on our way to Krasnoyarsk. The gypsies had been removed from Red Square, the McDonalds 200 meters from the Kremlin was packed, mostly with military because that was all they could afford.</p>

<p>Check out <a href="http://www.vistablackandwhiteoftaos.com">www.vistablackandwhiteoftaos.com</a> and please go see the Skater across the tiver from the end of the Arbat. e-mail me for more info!</p>

<p>Gordon</p>

<p>Get anything by Ansel Adams...</p>

<p>Andrew:</p>

<p>I spent a couple days there years ago. I was on crutches but my friend had been born in York. He would plant me in a pub and follow his quest to walk the entire wall that goes around the central part of the city.</p>

<p>I once carried a table top tripod from Maui to LA, but because of its size, it folded into leather case and looked like a gun. TSA quite rightly had their hands on their guns as I opened the case.</p>

<p>We had a show about 18 months ago. With the exception of a handfull of large prints, most were 11x14 B&W from our darkrrom, matted to 16x20 and shown i a simple black frame from Nielsson Bainbridge.</p>

<p>This has probably been discussed before, but there is a three part mini-series that BBC made and we got from Netflix called "Shooting the Past". Fascinating from the start. Having just watch a doc on photos from WW II made me remember it. I wasn't able to stop watching from the git go.</p>

<p>Ronald: The frame type we use is Nillson-Bainbridge (sp?). These are in most art stores and I think Hobby Lobby. The NB come in packs of two, such as 16" or 20" (by far the most popular) so you by one pack of each size. The packs come with all the hardware and are so easy a child could put them together (I am still looking for that child :-) ) Seriously, the ones we use are black and about 3/4 inch wide. The come in other colors.</p>

<p>When my girlfriend (the aforementioned "child") and I had a show, almost all the photos were matted to 16x20 or 20x16 with NB frames. Putting some framers out of business.</p>

<p>I use the Logan mat cutter, good up to exterior 28". I now only screw up may 1 in 20.</p>

<p>The only one I can think is still in orbit, a glove discarded in the bay of the Shuttle and still tracked from the ground.</p>

The view from lunch at the tiny Rockefeller home, with the Tetons

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60,000 soldiers died from Omsk in WW II.<div></div>

<p>My girlfriend and I usually create 8x10 or 11x14 (B&W) and almost always mat them to 16x20. I do the cutting. We have occasional dark room prints that call out for larger so we use a pro-shop. BTW the frames are simple.</p>

<p>Follow-up: The road up to Valle Vidal is generally not maintained in the winter/spring so you may not be able to take the ride I suggested.</p>

<p>A longer trip is to drive the main road up to Ft Garland CO, take a left and San Dunes National Monument, not to be confused with White Sands.</p>

<p>There are two fine Mexican Restaurants in Espanola. One is on the road opposite The McDondalds, and a further 7 miles takes you up the the Santuary. It's called El Paragua. The other is on the main road south of Wallgreens, called Los Arcos. If you continue north thru Taos (where I live) and go another hour north to a liny town called Costilla, take a right at the only gas station (a good, clean one) and travel into the lountains. At one point the road divides, take the right and you will hear up to about 10,000 ft and sit beside a stock pond once owned by Pennsoil The areas is Valle Vidal. Contnue past the stock ponds and down into Ted Turner's 500,000 he will return to the state when he passes on. You will go thru Cimmaron when the interiors from 3:10 to Yuma were filmed, and then head back.</p>

<p>Or, go thru Taos and about 45 minutes north you will see Questa and then a sign for Wild Rivers, a 700 foot Mesa above the confluence of the Red and Rio Grande Gorge.</p>

<p>If you're really adventuresome, find Montastery of Christ in the Desert, not to far from Ghost Ranch. The chapel has clerestory windows looking out on 1,000 sand cliff.</p>

<p>e-mail me at gordon.lukesh @ nukove.com, removing the spaces.</p>

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Summer in Jackson Hole<div></div>

<p>My other "knee-jerk" reaction (I have knees and may be a jerk!) would be Ansel Adams, but I don't have large format equipment! His long exposures of Yosemite are amazing.</p>

<p>All:</p>

<p>Thanks, we can bring this thread to a close!</p>

<p>Boris: Gotcha by about 600 ft here in Taos.</p>

<p>Gordon</p>

<p>Educate me: FSA = ?</p>

<p>We carry lead bags for our 35mm film. These are supposed to be good for four security checks and we have never had a problem. If worried, do what was suggested and ask for, politely!, a hand check.</p>

<p>Don't make my mistake years ago when I hand carried a table-top tripod. Folded and in its case it looked very much like a pistol and the TSA folks were correctly fingering their guns until I opened it!</p>

<p>I'd like to modify the very good thread to ask "which of the famous photographers who have left us" would you, if you had a time machine, apprentice with?</p>

<p>My first would be Cartier-Bresson, especially because of his "decisive moment". Brassai had incomparable photographs from Paris as well.</p>

<p>Many years ago I had dinner in a rotating restaurant on top of a building, the name of which I forget. The skyscrapers will skim by as you eat, but finding your way back from the restroom (which is stationary in the center) is a lot of fun after a couple beers!</p>

<p>One correction: West of Laramie is Medicine Bow Nat'l Forest and the pass is Snowy Range.</p>

<p>Another day trip out of Denver: Drive up thru Boulder, a pretty city with the Flat Iron Mtns. Head north to Laramie, and right on the border you will pass and photo the Virginia Dale Church - you can't miss it. In Laramie, head west over Medicine Bow Pass, this is about 11,000 ft but not the least bit scary. Near the top you can look for where a commercial airliner went into a mountain many years ago. Head over the top and find a way back. When we did it on the way to Steamboat, we saw three other cars in 45 miles!</p>

<p>Check out <a href="http://www.vistablackandwhiteoftaos.com">www.vistablackandwhiteoftaos.com</a> for some shots.</p>