What continues to impress me about those photos are the nighttime steam locomotives. He appraently used a whole lot of flashbulbs arranged along the track to get them! Otherwise they would be shots of the proverbial black cat in a coal mine. Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow! An entire museum dedicated to Link! Impressive. > Here's the link to the web site and an online gallery of his collection. > Great stuff. If you like trains, this should interest you. Thanks for > posting, John. Didn't know much about link--I'm much more informed now. > Cheers, Christine > > > http://www.linkmuseum.org/collection.html#headline > > > > > > > On Dec 23, 2012, at 7:19 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My plans for Saturday got disrupted, so I drove up there today. >> >> Beautiful work. >> >> I can't write well enough to do it justice, so I'll just say if you ever get >> the chance to visit the museum, it's worth doing. >> >> Not only the famous photos, but showing how he set them up; plus color >> photography I don't think many people know about. >> >> He also did audio recordings & 16mm cine. >> >> I only saw one inkjet print in the whole exhibit. Everything else was >> "Gelatin Silver Bromide" & "Color Coupler Photograph" - which looked to me >> like color reversal prints direct from the transparencies. He made all his >> shots with two cameras & it seems like he was using Ektachrome64 daylight in >> one of them a lot of the time. >> >> His equipment and darkroom have been donated to the museum, and there are >> boxes of the film he used. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
