Last summer, I acquired a lovingly used and well maintained 4x5 speed graphic in perfect condition. Reading about large format photography made it sound difficult, but i was comfortable with the camera in a couple of hours and it only took a couple weeks to reliably get good pictures. The difficulty of loading, unloading and carrying film holders got annoying fast, film and processing is more expensive, and I'm not the biggest fan of the 4:5 ratio. I'd always been a fan of panoramic formats, a rollfilm back seemed to be a good option.

Mazamas publishes and distributes a printed and bound annual report that contains not only membership and organizational information, but also contains stories, trip reports, and photography from the past year. I didn't hear about the annual until after the due date for submission, but i was still able to get a fair number of photos in, including the front cover.

One of my photographs was recently used on this flyer for the Mazamas Basic Climbing Education Program (BCEP). I joined the Mazamas soon after I moved to Oregon. Nothing from the east coast even remotely compares to the glaciated volcanoes out here. I knew i would have to start climbing, and I knew I had a lot to learn.