Years of photography and experience shooting with various systems and formats (digital and film, 35mm, 6x6, 6x7, 4x5, etc.) has landed me here: 6x17, analog photography. While I have always been enamored with panoramic formats, it never really struck me to seek out cameras that used panoramic formats natively. I don't know that there was an "ah ha" moment or decisive factor that pushed me to explore 617. Perhaps it was simply that one day I stumbled onto an opportunity to purchase a Fuji G617 6x17 medium (large?) format camera for a very reasonable price. So I took it!
The G617 has a fixed 105mm f/8 lens and honestly, there's not much else to it. Shooting it and seeing the images it produced was nothing short of awe-inspiring. In the years since, I have become a 617 junkie and it is all I want to shoot. Perhaps this will change. Perhaps not. For now though, it's always pure joy.
All of the following images were shot on film, scanned, and edited digitally.
Sunrise at Don's Meat Market off Broadway in St. Louis, MO.
View from Sunset Rock, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
View of Chattanooga, Tennessee from Point Park.
Elephant installation at the St Louis Zoo Wild Lights event.
Trekking down Sleeping Bear Dunes in Michigan during the Canadian wildfires.
Sunrise at Snooper's Rock. Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Scenes from St. Louis, Missouri
Misty view over the Meramec River in Castlewood State Park (Missouri).
F-111 Aardvark in aircraft boneyard in downtown St. Louis.
Sunset in Arches National Park.