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Now I finished up the roll of film and took it to USA Drug on Tuesday to get the film developed. Today, I picked up the film and as the images upload in Lightroom I was surprised to see that the first frames on the roll were from early in September. What! I had the same roll of film in the camera for almost five months. That moment I started feeling like my Dad. In his photography heyday he could get the better part of a year on a 36 exposure roll of Kodachrome 64. He always shot slides and I remember getting out the old Kodak Carousel Projector and seeing those vividly saturated images come up on the screen. I can still hear the distintive clicking of the slide trays as they advanced and how it would hang up if you didn't push the button just right and the loud whirl of the cooling fan trying to keep that bright projector bulb cool. I still have that projector, Dad gave it to me when he upgraded to a fancy auto focus, remote control slide projector. When I was in Jr.high and high school I shot a ton of slides. I was never that big on Kodachrome although I did shoot a fair amount of it, I really prefered the more vivid colors of Fujichrome. I remember my Youth Minister, Joe Godley, finding me one Sunday and telling me not to worry about buying film for summer camp because he had found a bunch of slide film for $1 a roll and he had bought 50 rolls. That summer we had 50 rolls of Kodachrome 25. What a miserably slow film to try to shoot all the action of camp with. I think my flash range was about 7 ft and that was with my 50mm F2 lens on my old trusty Pentax K1000. Funny I remember having all that slow film but I don't remember any of the photos that I took that summer. Back in those days I had no appreciation of the great history of Kodachrome or Tri-X or any other of the classic old films. My last year as a counselor at camp Tommy Griffiths and I set up a B&W darkroom at camp. We would shoot all day and develop the film and make prints all night. I would love to spend a week at camp now with a film camera a bunch of Tri-X and an air conditioned darkroom. Well so much for the photo memories tonight. I hope you enjoy the photos of Jackson's football practice from back in September.
I shot this on the shore of Chautauqua Lake while waiting for the sun to set. I love how the trees diffuse the light and the park by the lake was beautiful. I was in NY for the UPAA symposium and we spent a beautiful afternoon at the Chautauqua Institute.
The bell tower at Lake Chautauqua after the sunset.
Three ladies in the airport in Detroit waiting on a plane to Memphis and talking about eating barbecue. I used zone focusing and depth of field to get this photo. I love how old cameras have depth of field scales on the lens. I also really love the tactile feeling of winding film. I am not so crazy about having to cock the shutter for each shot.
Birdhouse behind the Reynolds Building on the Harding campus.
Same tree looking up. I am really loving the 44mm lens perspective of this lens. Yesterday I drove to Wynne to meet Julie's parents and to pick up the kids and bring them home. While driving I was listening to Brooks Jensen, editor of LensWork Magazine, podcasts and he was talking photography being a form of memory and about cameras being our memory machines. Interesting ideas about memory, but the idea of the memory machine kept bringing me to this camera. I really like how this camera captures memories.
This is a memory to keep. Jackson and I on our first bike ride with his new bike. We rode all over the HU campus just the two of us. We stopped under this tree with the bird house to take a break and get a drink because it was really hot outside that day.
Me and Kodak Signet 35 camera.
Ribs on July the 3rd. Those rib racks were part of my Fathers Day present. We started cooking the ribs at 10 in the morning using one burner and hickory wood in the smoker box. At 3:00 we basted with Apple Juice and wrapped them up in foil to continue to cook up to the magical 165 degree safe point for pork. I have to give thanks to my brother Kelly for the BBQ cooking tips. If you are wondering they were great. Two racks were rubbed with Rainforest Cafe Mojo Rib Rub, two racks were Corky's Rib Rub, and the final rack had a very spicey Brazilian Beef Rub that I found at Sam's Club.
Being home all day on Friday and keeping an eye on ribs is relaxing. Jalen spent some quality heat of the afternoon time on the couch with his DS. I like how the backlight carves out the details of his profile.
Slipping ahead to July 5th when we celebrated the 4th with Julie's family. This is Uncle Charlie and Chris sitting out on the patio waiting for the annual parade to start.
There is always time for bb guns on the family 4th celebration. Jackson is putting the hurt on a coke can with his Daisy Buck bb gun.
Jalen taking a break from bike riding to do a few pull-ups as he waits for his turn at the empty coke can.
Josie and cousin Olivia are moving this big rock in the search for Rollie Pollies. As you can see below they found this giant black caterpillar.
Jamie reloading the music on her Disney Mix Stick. I found out later from Jenna that Jamie loaded up on Christmas music. You never know what Jamie is up to.
Finally Josie and one of her softball teammates.
Wednesday at 1:00 all of the Comm department darkroom equipment that was left after HU insiders got what they wanted was put out for the public to take what they wanted. This is a really sad sight. I spent many a hour in darkrooms all over Hardings campus. The only darkrooms left are in the art department and the student publications office. I got some tanks and reels to develop my own film. I got some photo chemistry and some reloadable film cans that were DX coded for ISO 400. I use those to put TRI-X in my Olympus Stylus Epic.
The Princess asleep with her friends. I like to wake her up with that brown bear.
Thursday Jackson, Josie and I went to get Jalen at soccer practice. We threw the football for a while and then Jackson says "Dad do you want to go see my fort?" I had no idea that this was what he would show me. Jackson is such a planner, working out the details of making a lean-to and he had a lot of big limbs thanks to the recent hurricanes coming through AR and blowing weak limbs out of the big trees at the soccer fields.
Josie found the Buzz Light Year goggles in the back of my van. Makes me wonder what else might be in the back of my van.
Gabriel Fatula at lunch today. He never woke up so I didn't get to hold him.
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Our tree is a Chestnut tree and it has these big really prickly pods that hold the Chestnuts until they are ready to be harvested. The pods fall off the tree and break open letting the nut come out. I keep expecting to see squirrels in our yard but so far I haven't seen any.-5192.jpg)
