Monochrome

USS Kidd (DD-661), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. On this image it's floating on the shore of Mississippi river in Baton Rouge, the "Horace Wilkinson Bridge" is in the background. To be clear, I'm a convinced pacifist. scanned slide, Minolta X700

View from Bank of America building (now "555 California Street"), the "Transamerica Pyramid" reflecting in the shiny walls. scanned slide, Minolta X700

View from the southern San Francisco-side. Fort Point National Historic Site in the foreground. scanned slide, Minolta X700

The tallest skyscraper in San Francisco from 1969 to 2017 - 260 m and 48 floors.

This almost 1000 m high wall is exciting from different angles..... scanned slide, Minolta X700

another view from east-southeast scanned slide, Minolta X700

I took this photo in 1986 with a Fujichrome 100 and a Minolta X700, scanned with a Nikon SuperCoolScan 5000 and postprocessed with Photoshop and Silver Efex Pro 2. Concerning monochrome and Yosemite: Search for Ansel Adams in the internet and you will find a lot of beautiful monochrome photos by this famous artist, which he took in this National Park.

El Capitán to the left, Bridalveil Falls to the right, seen from "Tunnel View"

The right bank side of Horseshoe Falls at the Canadian-US border, seen from the boat "Maid of the Mist". People in the upper left of the image are standing on Goat Island. scanned slide, Minolta X700

with one observer on top, seen from "Mist Trail" Nevada Fall has a total height of 181 m. It is located below the granite dome Liberty Cap. scanned slide, Minolta X700

Liberty Cap is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park. It lies to the north of Nevada Fall, near the John Muir Trail. Its peak elevation is 2158 m. The PiP shows the domes of Liberty Cap and Half Dome in the background on another day. scanned slide, Minolta X700

With this new scans of old slides I try my best to add the location as geotag. This is sometimes quite difficult and becomes an obsession. Yesterday I searched for hours in Google Earth and Google Street View, until I found it finally (see Google Street View below). Happy and sad at the same time, because the wonderful old tree has collapsed in the meantime and has been cut into pieces. Anyway - HFF and stay safe and happy, folks!

Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nevada, near the eastern boundary of Death Valley National Park. The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold rush, thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners and service providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine.

Mojave Yucca (Yucca schidigera) on the wayside of Nevada State Road 160 west of Las Vegas. One of the important "yucca complex" of native foods it was roasted and eaten. Its flowers are sweet and were also eaten as ma-huve-gar. Strong leaf fibers were used for weaving, sewing and fastening into garments and sandals. Pith was used for soap and shampoo and the leaves made a slow match for "relocating" fire. The food and fibers could also be stored. scanned slide, Minolta X700