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Homage Galleries
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Indian Country Galleries
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East Side Sierra Nevada
Sierra Nevada Eastside
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Foggy Night in Los Angeles
Coastal Bike Rides
Trek Émonda
Yosemite's Natural Fire Fall
Had Camera, Did Travel - 2015 in Review
Italy by Bike 2015
The Wildflower Century - Chico, California, 2015
Getting High on Haleakala
A Photograph On Occasion
Yosemite, Selected Images, 2014
Route 66 - 2015
Navajo Country - 2014
A Ride Up Stelvio Pass, Italy
The Un-Yellowstone/Teton Photography Tour, 2013
Clover Avenue Elementary School
The Swingin' 60s - An Eyewitness Account
Homage Galleries
It's Hip to Be Square
Indian Country Galleries
Holiday Festivals of Los Angeles
The Mother Road - The Route 66 Galleries
California Galleries
Mountain Home - Photography Amongst the Giant Sequ
The Oregon Galleries
An August Ascent of Mt. Sill
The Tidelands of South Carolina
Yellowstone Country - Autumn, 2007
The Magic of Autumn - Yosemite, 2006
Sierra Nevada East Side - Autumn, 2006
Zion, Bryce and Las Vegas - A Photography Tour
Death Valley Haikus - Winter, 2007
Yosemite in Winter - 2007
Emigrant Highways - San Joaquin Valley, California
The Glory of Yosemite - Spring, 2007
Winter in Yosemite - 2008
Death Valley 2008
Yellowstone Country - Autumn, 2008
Mono Lake, Bodie Ghost Town and Autumn Colors - Si
Autumn in Yosemite, 2008
Route 66, California - Barstow to Amboy - 2008
Route 66 - Barstow to Amboy, California - 2009
San Diego Natural History Museum - Death Valley -
Land of Fire and Ice - The Cascades and Northern C
Return to Steinbeck Country
Point Reyes National Seashore, California - Previe
Rapha Continental -The Navajo Nation Ride
Beyond the Snapshot: The Point Reyes Peninsula
Yellowstone Country 2009
Yosemite in Autumn - October, 2009
Sierra Nevada East Side - 2009
Indian Country and the Southwestern United States
The Southwest - Canyon Lands and Indian Country, 2
The Mother Road - Route 66, 2010
Family Camping Trip Galleries
The Fargo Street Hill Climb, Version 2010
California's Gold Rush Country
Yosemite's Waterworks, Spring, 2010
The Central Coast of California - 2010
Mule Pack to the High Sierra
Point Reyes, Tomales Bay, Petaluma - 2010
Sierra Nevada East Side - 2010
Winter in Yosemite - 2011
IPhonic Imagery
Death Valley - Spring, 2011
En Plein Air: The Central Coast of California
Steinbeck Country 2011
City of Angels - Photojournalism
Oregon Photo Tour/Ken Rockwell Homage - 2012


Photographs in this gallery were created with the Rolleiflex film camera, a twin lens reflex, then scanned into my computer. The size of the negative/slide is 2.25 inches x 2.25 inches (6x6cm). It's akin to having a multi-megapixel digital camera, and it is four times larger than a 35mm negative or slide.


Not all of the pictures in this gallery are square. The beauty of the square format and the twin lens reflex is that it allows for cropping of the photograph, without having to turn the camera in a horizontal or vertical orientation.


I have a Rollei webpage at http://home.comcast.net/~wymanburke/The_Rollei_Page.html - Please drop by!

Aspens Viewed from the Chemung Mine Ruins
Bristlecone, White Mountains of California
Chairs at the Getty
Chairs at the Getty Museum, on a winter afternoon, 2003

Camera: Rolleiflex MX-EVS
Water Tower, Parkfield, CA
Wildflowers near Gorman, Old Ridge Route
This doesn't quite look like a photograph, and I certainly enjoy using Photoshop. But this is the straight photograph. Camera: Rolleiflex twin lens reflex, medium format film.
The View from Highway 41, Central California
Highway 41 cuts through the Coast Range mountains of Central California. I made this photograph from the top of my mini-van, which gave me a bit of elevation over the highway.

Camera: Rolleiflex MX-EVS
Carrizo Plain
Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA

Ok, it's not Square - but it was born of Square - from the Rolleiflex's square format. The idea behind such a format is that it can be cropped anyway the photographer desires.

Camera: Rolleiflex T (watch for a similar picture in my book, Backroads of Southern California, due out in May, 2005.)
El Capitan, Yosemite, Early Morning
Rolleiflex MX-EVS

Color removed with photoshop.

It is not square - but it was when it started life.
Dawn over El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, CA, USA
Rolleiflex - from a tripod.
Canary Spring, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone
Camera: Rolleiflex T - photograph made during the 2002 photography workshop I conducted to Yellowstone and the Tetons.
Roys Cafe and Motel, Amboy
Camera: Rolleiflex T

I like this picture. But I don't like it in color. Maybe the the sepia tone more closely matches the subject, since Roy's is a nearly defunct motel and cafe - and has been since the 1960s - in the Mojave desert of southeastern California.

Limited edition prints are available - contact the photographer.
Amboy Salt Pool, Mojave Desert, California, USA
This is a picture of an evaporation pond, located near the tiny and remote community of Amboy. When much of the water evaporates, the remaining salty sludge, used for a variety of odd commercial uses, is pumped into tanker cars on a train and shipped around the United States. Famed Route 66 is a few miles to the north.

Camera: Rolleiflex T, with a small f/stop to hold depth of field.
Beaver dam, Lundy Lake, Sierra Nevada mountains, California, USA
Fern Spring, Yosemite, California, USA
Yosemite's "smallest waterfall" - about three feet high, lies just off the road at the bottom of Yosemite Valley, and is missed by most visitors.

Visit my Rollei webpage, http://home.attbi.com/~wymanburke/The_Rollei_Page.html as well as the Image Square webpage, http://cgi.linkclub.or.jp/~dmakos/imgsquare/ with another gallery of Rolleiflex images by a variety of photographers.
Dawn over Mono Lake
I have seen many beautiful dawns over Mono Lake, in eastern California, USA, but none more so than this one.
Billy Goat in the Dog House
Near Cambria, California, on the central coast of California - to me, this picture looks more like a painting than a photograph. I made it while on the 2001 photography workshop to the central coast.

Visit my Rollei webpage, http://home.attbi.com/~wymanburke/The_Rollei_Page.html as well as the Image Square webpage, http://cgi.linkclub.or.jp/~dmakos/imgsquare/ with another gallery of Rolleiflex images by a variety of photographers.
Elephant Seal
Photographed just south of Big Sur, along the central coast of California, USA.

Visit my Rollei webpage, http://home.attbi.com/~wymanburke/The_Rollei_Page.html as well as the Image Square webpage, http://cgi.linkclub.or.jp/~dmakos/imgsquare/ with another gallery of Rolleiflex images by a variety of photographers.
Candles Glimmer the Santa Isabel Mission
These votive candles burned in the Santa Isabel Mission, in the mountains east of San Diego, California.
Machine Shop - Bodie
The machine shop in the Standard Mill - an old gold processing plant - at Bodie, the great ghost town of the Old West, in California, USA

Camera: Rolleiflex T - Film: Agfa Scala (black and white transparency slide film - try it!)

Visit my Rollei webpage, http://home.attbi.com/~wymanburke/The_Rollei_Page.html as well as the Image Square webpage, http://cgi.linkclub.or.jp/~dmakos/imgsquare/ with another gallery of Rolleiflex images by a variety of photographers.
Towers of Amboy
Abandoned industrial towers in the remote community of Amboy (population about nine), California, USA, just off of Route 66 in the Mojave desert.

Visit my Rollei webpage, http://home.attbi.com/~wymanburke/The_Rollei_Page.html as well as the Image Square webpage, http://cgi.linkclub.or.jp/~dmakos/imgsquare/ with another gallery of Rolleiflex images by a variety of photographers.
Abandoned Airstream
Abandoned Airstream trailer, at the back of the Bagdad Cafe (and location for the cult film of the same name), in Newberry Springs, deep in the American outback of the Mojave desert. Historic Route 66 runs right by the cafe, which is home to a cast of characters as unusual as those in the film.

Visit my Rollei webpage, http://home.comcast.net/~wymanburke/The_Rollei_Page.html for more Rollei pictures.
Abstract in Broken Glass
This is the window glass of a ruined car, now resting comfortably in the parking lot of the Route 66 Motel, in Barstow, California.

Visit my Rollei webpage, http://home.attbi.com/~wymanburke/The_Rollei_Page.html as well as the Image Square webpage, http://cgi.linkclub.or.jp/~dmakos/imgsquare/ with another gallery of Rolleiflex images by a variety of photographers.
Car at Bodie, California, USA
I love photographing this old car in the ghost town of Bodie, in Eastern California.

Visit my Rollei webpage, http://home.attbi.com/~wymanburke/The_Rollei_Page.html as well as the Image Square webpage, http://cgi.linkclub.or.jp/~dmakos/imgsquare/ with another gallery of Rolleiflex images by a variety of photographers.
Toms Welding
The owner of Tom's Welding shop has highways collected signs from Route 66 and the American southwest. The shop is located not far from downtown Barstow, California, USA.

Visit my Rollei webpage, http://home.attbi.com/~wymanburke/The_Rollei_Page.html as well as the Image Square webpage, http://cgi.linkclub.or.jp/~dmakos/imgsquare/ with another gallery of Rolleiflex images by a variety of photographers.
Route 66 Motel, Barstow, California, USA
This photograph was made on the 2002 photography workshop along a remote stretch of Route 66.

We'll do it again, in 2004. Visit my Rollei webpage, http://home.attbi.com/~wymanburke/The_Rollei_Page.html as well as the Image Square webpage, http://cgi.linkclub.or.jp/~dmakos/imgsquare/ which features another gallery of Rolleiflex images by a variety of photographers.
Aspens Viewed from the Chemung Mine Ruins

Aspens Viewed from the Chemung Mine Ruins  509 views

Bristlecone, White Mountains of California

Bristlecone, White Mountains of California  473 views

Chairs at the Getty

Chairs at the Getty  474 views

Water Tower, Parkfield, CA

Water Tower, Parkfield, CA  502 views

Wildflowers near Gorman, Old Ridge Route

Wildflowers near Gorman, Old Ridge Route  476 views

The View from Highway 41, Central California

The View from Highway 41, Central California  472 views

Carrizo Plain

Carrizo Plain  478 views

El Capitan, Yosemite, Early Morning

El Capitan, Yosemite, Early Morning  476 views

Dawn over El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, CA, USA

Dawn over El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, CA, USA  480 views

Canary Spring, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone

Canary Spring, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone  477 views

Roys Cafe and Motel, Amboy

Roys Cafe and Motel, Amboy  479 views

Amboy Salt Pool, Mojave Desert, California, USA

Amboy Salt Pool, Mojave Desert, California, USA  479 views

Beaver dam, Lundy Lake, Sierra Nevada mountains, California, USA

Beaver dam, Lundy Lake, Sierra Nevada mountains, California, USA  505 views

Fern Spring, Yosemite, California, USA

Fern Spring, Yosemite, California, USA  477 views

Dawn over Mono Lake

Dawn over Mono Lake  473 views

Billy Goat in the Dog House

Billy Goat in the Dog House  144 views

Elephant Seal

Elephant Seal  140 views

Candles Glimmer the Santa Isabel Mission

Candles Glimmer the Santa Isabel Mission  141 views

Machine Shop - Bodie

Machine Shop - Bodie  141 views

Towers of Amboy

Towers of Amboy  141 views

Abandoned Airstream

Abandoned Airstream  139 views

Abstract in Broken Glass

Abstract in Broken Glass  139 views

Car at Bodie, California, USA

Car at Bodie, California, USA  138 views

Toms Welding

Toms Welding  138 views

Route 66 Motel, Barstow, California, USA

Route 66 Motel, Barstow, California, USA  160 views

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