Tom Raymondson photography

About

I’ve been shooting film since the eighth grade, developing and printing since high school, and pursuing landscape and architectural photography for most of my adult life. My go-to cameras these day are several Fuji medium format rangefinders, loaded with Kodak T-Max 100 or Ektar 100. I also like the challenge of crafting a pristine 4×5 negative on T-Max 100 with a Sinar F1 or a Wanderlust Travelwide. Sometimes I go back to my roots with any number of 35mm classics, my current favorites being a Nikon F and a Minolta CLE, with Kodak Tri-X or Portra 400. When convenience or airport security dictate, I bring along a Fuji X-T5. Color film is scanned into digital files that, along with the output from the X-T5, lead me to the computer, but black & white film takes me into my darkroom, where a day watching 16×20 prints emerge in their Dektol bath is certainly a preview of Heaven (unless it, too, has gone digital).

The four types of cameras that I use are represented here. I’m standing next to one of my 4×5’s, the staircase photo is medium format, the pier is 35mm, and the portrait itself is digital.