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Photographing The Wreck Site
of the Sailing Ship Frolic
By Al Greening
“Contacts” In Europe
By Barbara Orbock
Last November Richard Everett,
the Exhibits Curator for the San
Francisco Maritime National
Historical Park Museum asked me to
take a panoramic photograph of the
wreck site of the sailing ship Frolic on
the Mendocino Coast. He wanted a
panorama for the entrance to an
exhibit on the Frolic, which was
scheduled to open in February 1998.
The Frolic, a New England sailing
ship, wrecked on the Mendocino
Coast in 1850 with a cargo of goods
being shipped from Hong Kong to
San Francisco.
Everett was planning to have a large
air brushed mural made from the #10
cirkut photograph. I told him that
Custom Panoramic Lab could make a
one-piece enlargement using their
Roundshot enlarger. He agreed to go
for the enlargement.
In between two of last winter’s
many storms, I took my #10 Cirkut up
to Mendocino, found the wreck site,
and took two panoramas under much
less than ideal conditions. To get the
view requested, I had to shoot directly
into the low winter sun. I made two
exposures and mailed the negatives
to the lab.
After looking at the initial proofs,
which were straight uncorrected prints,
Everett was ready to give up on the
idea of an enlargement. The center of
the panoramic where I had shot into
the sun was washed out. I talked to
Peter Lorber and he made 4 more
proofs, burning in the washed out area.
Everett was happy with one of the
proofs and at this point we ordered
a 40-inch by 18-foot enlargement to
be made using the Roundshot enlarger.
Everyone was pleased with the overall
appearance and detail in the finished
print.
The photograph will be on display
at the Museum through 1998. The
Museum is located on the San Fran-
cisco waterfront at the North end of
Polk Street near the Hyde Street cable
car turnaround.
Riddle: What do these people have
in common? A ten year-old
rollerblader in Parc Monceau,
two charming ladies from Yorkshire
touring Chambord, a market vendor
named Patrick selling
chickens in Brugge, a
WWII resistance fighter
In Pont Aven, three
Israeli collage students in
Amsterdam, a group of
roving artists in
Monmartre and a
contingent of Chinese
businessmen on the
medieval ramparts of
Luxembourg City.
Answer: Curiosity -
about a man in a ponytail
walking around a
revolving white box that
parches on top of a very
big tripod.
The questions begin in
Checking out the Hulcher.
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rapid French, in halting English or in
various forms of sign languages. “What
is that thing?”, “Are you making a movie
- do you know Harrison Ford?”, “Are
you Harrison Ford?”, “How can you tell
what you’re taking? - There’s no
viewfinder”, “I take panoramas too”,
smiling and holding up a Kodak throw-
away. These are typical encounters on a
safari through Europe with Dave and
Barbara Orbock, two Hulchers and a
Roundshot, trips that are always more
adventure than vacation.
The past two Septembers have been
spent in France and the Benelux coun-
tries. The first week each time was spent
in Paris where walking eight to ten miles
a day was the normal. Always looking
for the unusual, Dave tried to capture the
familiar such as the Eiffel Tower and
Arc de Triomphe in different perspec-
tives but also sought out the little known
as well. His advantage in finding the
“hidden” Paris
were tips from
Blaise, the
gracious host at
the small
family-run
Hotel Castex.
Whatever the
location, Dave
was approached
several times a
day by inter-
ested onlookers
and the shoot at
that particular
spot became a
photography
lesson, an
exchange of
ideas and a boost for international
relations. In order to illustrate just what
his cameras do, Dave carried contact
samples of his work which to the
amazement of his audience, he then
freely distributed as gifts. It was an
amazing way to gain friends in faraway
places.
However, it wasn’t always the
photographer that was the center of
attention. On one occasion it was the
Hulcher that was the star. Dave was
taking some scenes in front of the old
Opera in Paris when a crew of commer-
cial photographers arrived with truck-
loads of equipment and three very
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