{"id":5582,"date":"2025-04-19T11:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5582"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:30:21","slug":"12-for-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5582","title":{"rendered":"12 for 12!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rare thing happened this week: I shot a roll of film on which I liked every image. In the old days we used to say if you got a good picture out of 36, the number of shots on a roll of 35mm film, you were doing fine. I was shooting my Hasselblad 1000F which makes 12 images on a roll of 120 film, and I went 12 for 12. This seems so unusual to me that I felt like I needed to commemorate it here on the blog. The images are from Road 151 which goes out to Christ in the Desert Monastery. I\u2019ve shot out there a lot; I really like it! Anyway, I was shooting with the 80mm Tessar, the \u201cnormal\u201d lens on the Hasselblad. I was using an orange filter, to darken the sky. The film is Kodak T-max 400 and I processed it in xtol. This Hasselblad was built in 1956, the same year I was assembled, so it doesn\u2019t have a meter or any other electronics, very old school. Thanks for your attention<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As you might imagine I\u2019d prefer that these pages don\u2019t get filled with a great deal of text. If you\u2019d like information about a specific image, please e-mail me at john@siskinphoto.com<\/a> and I\u2019ll let you know what I know. Of course, if you have specific requests about an image you\u2019d like to purchase please use the same address. If you\u2019d like to go ahead and purchase an image, just contact me by e-mail.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A few links<\/p>\n

Siskinphoto.Home<\/a><\/p>\n

Introduction Page<\/a><\/p>\n

Monument Valley<\/a><\/p>\n

Taos Pueblo<\/a><\/p>\n

Night Sky<\/a><\/p>\n

Lightning<\/a><\/p>\n

Flowers<\/a><\/p>\n

Monastery Road<\/a><\/p>\n

Petroglyphs<\/a><\/p>\n

Rock<\/a><\/p>\n

Ice and Snow<\/a><\/p>\n

Tsankawi<\/a><\/p>\n

Sugarite Campground<\/a><\/p>\n

Churchs<\/a><\/p>\n

El Morro National Monument<\/a><\/p>\n

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I did a large show when I was still in Indianapolis called Courting Chaos<\/a>. The link will take you to the pages which describe the work and its evolution. These images are, well, chaotic and many of them are nudes. I hope you\u2019ll find it interesting.<\/p>\n

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Links to my books, still available at Amazon!<\/p>\n