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Why this photo?
It is the first photo I ever took! This was October of 1974, using my dad's instamatic (thus the square format). I was absolutely hooked, and have loved photography ever since.
Actually, after all these years, I like the shot itself [Joshua and my first car(!) a 1972 plymouth satellite]. It seems to have an odd, slightly "Bill Eggleston" quality that I like.
When recently I found the original negative, it was in kinda rough shape an odd dimension (not 35mm) and my new Nikon negative scanner would not recognize the negative shape.
I ended up trimming a slide holder, putting the instamatic negative in that, and scanning it in through two scans, bottom and top, and splicing the two pictures together.
Couldn't quite get the yellow/gold hues right, but this was a bright New Mexico sunset on a yellow dog and a yellow Plymouth Satellite! Very 70's feel.
Anyway, that's the story of this print.
-K
It is the first photo I ever took! This was October of 1974, using my dad's instamatic (thus the square format). I was absolutely hooked, and have loved photography ever since.
Actually, after all these years, I like the shot itself [Joshua and my first car(!) a 1972 plymouth satellite]. It seems to have an odd, slightly "Bill Eggleston" quality that I like.
When recently I found the original negative, it was in kinda rough shape an odd dimension (not 35mm) and my new Nikon negative scanner would not recognize the negative shape.
I ended up trimming a slide holder, putting the instamatic negative in that, and scanning it in through two scans, bottom and top, and splicing the two pictures together.
Couldn't quite get the yellow/gold hues right, but this was a bright New Mexico sunset on a yellow dog and a yellow Plymouth Satellite! Very 70's feel.
Anyway, that's the story of this print.
-K
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great not only for a first photo ever