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You are free to use these pictures in a non-commercial manner as long as you ask first and give proper attribution. I have 2K to 3K pixel scans on my hard drive if you want something larger.

There is a great deal of misunderstanding and controversy out there about solarization / the Sabbatier effect. I perfer to just think that it's a way of making pictures look wiked cool; Who cares what it's called if it makes things look this neat (Unless you sell Solarol print developer)? Regardless, it's a wonderful way to turn a print with otherwise hopelessly high contrast into a fascinating chemical competition with beautiful results.

Late in the afternoon, light cascades between the trees on the north bank of the Wilamette River. Pan-F+ @ F/8.

The length of the Wilamette river running through Eugene is practically one very long park, and the ducks and geese that live along it are very tolerant of people; These two let me get close enough to take this picture with a 28mm lens! Image on Ilford Delta 3200, ~1/500 @ F/32.

I took this picture originally on Fuji Acros 100, but the negative turned out to have a contrast too high for any hope of making a normal print. However, the picture itself was good enough that I decided to solarize it.

Taken in the "green fields" part of the park, one of the currently few pictures I have that were taken with a normal (or near-normal) focal length lens, as I usually shun the 2x teleconverter due to the reduced image quality. However, with Delta 3200, one has to stop down so far (and the image is so grainy anyway) that it doesn't much matter.

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