A little beauty to start your week…courtesy my new film scanner (a Christmas present to myself…I’m allowed)

Colorado River, Near Big Bend Utah

This was taken during my swing through the southwest in 2004, with the Hasselblad I was able, finally, to afford.  Thanks to the general migration to digital, film cameras and lenses I once thought I’d never be able to own are now showing up on the used market, and in excellent condition.  This was taken with a 501c, and the 80mm f2.8 Planar lens it came with, on Fuji Velvia, which rivals the old Kodachrome in detail and color saturation.  The combination of the Hasselblad with its magnificent lenses and Velvia is simply stunning.  When I got my first rolls back it simply took my breath away.  I had to bump down the image resolution here quite a bit or the page would never finish loading, the scanned image size on a 6×6 color slide at the scanner’s full resolution is running about half a gig.  But even so you can see the richness and delicacy of the image.

This is such a beautiful world…