Great story, nice pic. Enjoyed seeing it. If it were mine, I might rotate it a couple of degrees clockwise to get those verticals in alignment.
Paul On May 13, 2013, at 10:41 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > . . . I was a young man in grad school in the Hoosier State. One snowy day in > February or March 1969 I had some free time + film in my almost brand new > Nikkormat, and there was fresh snow. So instead of walking to my office for a > day of reading, I drove my wife to her teaching job in a rural school > district, and then drove around the backroads. This shot has long been one of > my favorites. I worked hours over multiple sessions in the darkroom trying to > get a print that I liked, finally got one that was good enough, framed it > with reclaimed wood from an old shed on my grandfather's farm, and it has > been with me since. > > Flash forward to last week when I was hauling stuff from the storage locker > and moving/sorting stuff on my shelves, all in preparation for a yard sale. I > came across my box full of old negatives. Rummaging through the box earlier > this evening I happened on the roll containing this shot. A few minutes of > set-up, a few minutes of scanning, and my image was in Lightroom ready to > process. A few minutes of fiddling and I have a version of the image at least > as good as any of my many trial prints. The good old days were good in many > ways, but modern technology is wonderful! > > http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/h5f467bc0#h5f467bc0 > > stan > -- > 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.
