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Rohtang Pass : Our two day cycle over Rohtang Pass from Manali to Khoksar.

Rohtang Pass

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Our two day cycle over Rohtang Pass from Manali to Khoksar.

Updated: Apr 11, 2013 5:16pm PST

1978 Piemonte :

1978 Piemonte

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Updated: Apr 11, 2013 10:00am PST

1977 Italy - Piemonte : During the summer of 1977 Stephane and I drove up and down just about every valley of the Piemonte Region measuring magnetic anomalies for our Earth Sciences M.Sc. thesis work. This required measuring at a distance from the interference of cities and their power lines, so we had to go to some very remote places at times to get the results we needed. As photographers, this also had us exploring locations very much off the beaten track, as well as seeing the usual landmarks of the region such as the lakes of Locarno and Como, the Sanctuary of Oropa and many more. The weather was not always sunshine, in fact it was the worst rains in memory, destroying 2,000 year-old Roman bridges and causing landslides and damage to century-old railways.

1977 Italy - Piemonte

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During the summer of 1977 Stephane and I drove up and down just about ...

Updated: Apr 11, 2013 4:14am PST

1976 Sweden : In July and August 1976 I worked as a summer intern at the Kirunavara magentite mine in Kiruna, close to the Swedish Polar Circle. Most of my time was spent prospecting for other minerals with a company geologist, an opportunity to walk and hike across the vast territories of that region rich in lakes and forests. Sunset / sunrise photography was made easy by the many hours it would take the sun to reach the horizon (finally setting at around 11 pm) and rise again (starting at 1 am).

1976 Sweden

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In July and August 1976 I worked as a summer intern at the Kirunavara ...

Updated: Apr 11, 2013 3:35am PST

1975 Norway : In 1975 I travelled to Norway for a summer job at an iron mine just South of the Polar Circle. Two months of work and many possibilities to drive around the fascinating fjord sceneries as well as travel to the North Cape and a return through Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish Lapland.

1975 Norway

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In 1975 I travelled to Norway for a summer job at an iron mine just So ...

Updated: Apr 10, 2013 10:01pm PST

1973 Scotland :

1973 Scotland

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Updated: Apr 10, 2013 9:08pm PST

1999 The Great Wall of China :

1999 The Great Wall of China

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Updated: Apr 03, 2013 8:39pm PST

Film Photography 1970 - 2000 Project overview : Starting in 2011, I sent for scanning thousands of 35mm slide pictures that had been collecting dust in various locations for many, many years, including material from my very first years of photography up until the switch to digital in 2001. The slides were sent to www.scancafe.com, and then sorted and assembled into galleries using Apple Aperture as a light table.
Many slides had suffered degradation over time, as can be expected. However the story is patchy. Slide film (mostly Kodak Ektachrome) was expensive, and for that and also creative reasons I shot mostly black and white in the years 1970 to 1982, using a home laboratory to develop and enlarge pictures until 1994. With a family and kids, I increasingly made use of color negative film from 1987 onwards. So this collection of color slides has many gaps, but nonetheless shows many locations of interest where I lived or travelled, and views of places that have most probably changed a lot over the years. 
This gallery is a compendium of the film equipment used during that period. All the equipment still in my possession was sold on eBay in 2004 and 2005, as I moved finally to digital SLR technology. These pictures are copyright Canon Inc.

Film Photography 1970 - 2000 Project ...

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Starting in 2011, I sent for scanning thousands of 35mm slide pictures ...

Updated: Apr 03, 2013 8:25pm PST

1999 Tibet : A very brief (24h) visit to Lhasa when on business in Cheng-Du, in the excellent company of Charles Govart. We visited the famed Potola palace in the morning and toured the market area in the afternoon.

(c) 1999-2013 Philip Neri - No commercial usage without prior authorization

1999 Tibet

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A very brief (24h) visit to Lhasa when on business in Cheng-Du, in the ...

Updated: Apr 02, 2013 8:53pm PST

1988 Portugal :

1988 Portugal

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Updated: Mar 25, 2013 10:05pm PST