 I joined Scott Cowan on Exploring Washington State to talk about three decades photographing this state on film — and about the two cameras that made it possible, both of which are now out of production.
We got into the mechanics most people never ask about: how a swing-lens Noblex 135U differs from a Hasselblad XPan II, why I still trust only Velvia 50 after thirty years, and what it means to depend on a single repair technician — in his eighties — to keep aging camera bodies alive. I talked about apprenticing under Ken Duncan in Australia in the late '90s, processing images for America Wide, and how that shaped the way I see landscape now. Scott and I also spent time on the places in this book that don't usually make the postcard rack — the Salmo-Priest Wilderness in fall, the camas fields at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in spring, the dunes near Hanford that almost nobody photographs. And we talked about Washington Wide itself: why I built it around the eastern half of the state as much as the western, and why I chose to self-publish and learn every step of production myself rather than hand it off. Listen: Exploring Washington State — John Shephard, Washington Wide & Panoramic Photography Washington Wide is available for preorder now at washingtonwide.com. Comments are closed.
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About JohnJohn Shephard grew up in Washington State surrounded by its landscapes and wild places. That connection to the land became the foundation of his work as a panoramic landscape photographer. He shoots exclusively on film, using panoramic cameras that capture a field of view close to what the human eye actually sees.
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