Scott Holcomb's photos with the keyword: Kowa L39•3C(UV) filter

Rapunzel, Rapunzel Let down your hair to me! I shall then hop this fence and climb up to your lofty tower chamber. This photo was taken with a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera using a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm T* lens with a Kowa L39•3C(UV) filter using Kodak Ektar 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized with Photoshop.

The first ancestors of this "living fossil" appeared in the Paleozoic Era and were particularly prevalent in the Carboniferous Period and the Pennsylvanian Epoch where thick forests of this species (rising up to 100 feet tall) covered much of what is now North America and Europe. For time reference, this was over 300,000,000 (million) years ago. The carbon laid down by millions of years of these forests became coal fields through geologic processes. This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera and Carl Zeiss Sonnar 1:4 f=150mm T* lens attached to a Hasselblad 21mm extension tube with a Kowa L39•3C(UV) filter using Fuji 160NS film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized with Photoshop.

San Francisco celebrates the openning of a new sports arena along it's waterfront. Besides being the new home of the Golden State Warriors NBA basketball team, it is a venue for concerts and other public events. This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and KOWA 1:3.5/55 lens with a Kowa L39•3C(UV) ø67 filter using Kodak TRI-X 400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered using Photoshop.

I offer you a symbolic sign of Spring. To produce such a sweet blossom there is the distinct chance of some painful moments, however . . . This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 1:4 f=150mm lens with a Kowa L39•3C(UV) filter attached to a 21mm extension tube using Kodak Portra 160 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized with Photoshop.