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I mentioned in a previous post that I own a Lomographic Fisheye. This camera is a fixed lens camera that produces 170 degree circular fisheye images. It has no controls other than a flash, and is generally a grab bag. Here is a sampling of some of my favorite images from the camera. This image resulted from simply pointing the camera at the sky. I like it because it looks almost like a water planet! This cat was exploring the caboose in front of the Black Diamond Museum. This is the minecart bridge at Franklin as viewed from one end. This waterfall is near the Green River Gorge Resort, across the Green River from Franklin. Stay tuned for more images from this fun and interesting camera!

Two of the Franklin IR images(Franklin Mine Cart and Hoist Foundation) are currently on exhibit at the Washington State Photo Competition at the Western Washington Fair (AKA the Puyallup Fair)

Franklin is a ghost town just east of Black Diamond, WA, built to mine coal in the Green River Gorge. The town was abandoned in the 1920's, and only foundations, a disorganized and overgrown cemetery, and a 1300 foot deep shaft (grated) remain. While exploring the area, I came up with the idea to return with Kodak High Speed Infrared Film (now sadly discontinued), and these are the resulting images. I entered them in the 2008 King County Fair, and won two blue ribbons for the Mine Cart and Headstone 2 images and four red ribbons for the others. The mine cart: This was a hoist foundation, which pulled the mine carts from the mine in the hillside across from the foundation: This was the power plant that supplied power to the mines: This structure carried a water pipe for the town: Finally, a couple of images from the cemetary: All photos were taken with a Nikon FM and 19-35mm Tamron lens, on Kodak High Speed Infrared film, and printed in my darkroom on Ilford Multigrade paper.