Ebay photos.

Dr. Sneed and I split a little Ansel Adams Yosemite print from the AA gallery. Then I found a W. Eugene Smith photo he had shot for Life Magazine that we got at a bargain. I'm always picking at cheap WWII photos. 12.00 and under. Some are really wonderful.

Here's "Killer" Joe Piro, a NY Coast Guardsman living it up at a USO dance contest in June of 1942. Original print. Probably a Graflex 4X5 with bulb flash.

Marine Cpl Jackie R. Perry from Dallas, Texas writing a letter home from a trench near the DMZ. He was lost two months later. This is a transmitted wirephoto- not on photo paper but on wirephoto stock. It has bleached out and will fade. Not worth paying much for wirephotos as they won't stand much light. Most likely the image is a 35mm film shot.

Post-WWII publicity shot of Jerry Colonna, Bob Hope's sidekick through many USO tours and movies. Probably an 8X10 contact.

Got a stack of others though I certainly miss some jewels because I'm not bidding very hard. I'd rather have these prints made for news than the modern archive reprints. I haven't had much luck with Owens Archive and others. One I won was a British Press photo that was a ferrotyped 11X14 with a wonderful range of tones. Amazing what is available.

Beautiful fall.

It's passing quickly as the rain takes the leaves off the trees. Keeping the Deardorff filmed up and ready. Shooting in really edgy light- on the edge of not enough.

Hope I'm guessing right. Shooting with black and white HP5 Ilford sheet film so I'm thinking past the color.

W. Eugene Smith Photo

The Good Doctor Sneed and I bought a photo off Ebay. Nice little find of mine, a 1944 press photo by Smith of a soldier in a foxhole with a dog. Pure schlock, but a cute image.

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Rain, overcast, winter light.

Many hours outside in the fall hunting deer. Too bad I can't photograph and hunt at the same time. There are some wonderful scenes and striking light under the grey skies of this time of year. Several times, sneaking down a track in the creek bottom I've had to back up and frame a scene that would was a photograph.
The drought has either broken or been interrupted by fall weather. We'll never catch up on this years rain but the creeks are running again. I couldn't cross Butler Creek the other afternoon.

Tap water temps in a great range. Need to be working in the darkroom.

Photographer's Equinox, 2011.

Photographer's Equinox today: tap water at 68 degrees out of the cold side. Time to get in the lab. Just for the hell of it I put a pretty good print up on ebay at a dirt cheap price.

Photographers Equinox.

Been taking the late class out to look at the late light every afternoon. The moon has been cranking over and seems like the light is very dramatic. Just checked the cold side of the tap water at the lab: 82 degrees. When it gets under 80F I can print. That will be fun!

Today was the first day that has had any kind of interesting clouds in the sky. Overcast all day with a front rolling up. Rain turned the dog and I around on a trip to the lake to check deercams but it hasn't shown up in town yet. Usually this time of year is marked by great foliage displays. Not going to be one of those years.

Weather and Temperature Changes.

Every season is different but seems like the light and the temperature have really taken a turn for the better the last month. The Photographers Equinox- when tap water runs 68 degrees, must be getting close.

Ordered a big old view camera box. Hard sided. Of Ebay today for next to nothing. Even cashed in some Ebay bucks to make it cheaper. I'm using a box older than I am for my 5X7 Deardorff now. This one older than that. Probably use it for 8X10 lenses and film holders.

Spent three days shooting the Texas State Rifle Association Service rifle Championship with digital and video....and an AR15. (Came out second by three points in an 800 point match with 100+ competitors). OK shooting. Now much work to be done on digital files.

Running deercams more frequently as the season gets closer. Those images over at Blackfork.

Film using spy satelite from the cold war.

Quite a story. No idea how they got the images down but the thing evidently used film. Might have been jettisoning packets that were then recovered. For a long time the Air Force had a system of snatching parachuting items out of the air.

Now everything is digital. Much easier to get data back.

Doesn't happen every day.

And shouldn't!

Tap Water 99 degrees.

Out of the COLD side. Having to use every old indian trick in the book, like using the hot water side but leaving the water heater off, (so you have a tank of 76 degree water), frozen ice gallons in milk cartons, et.
Be happy when the air conditioners fall silent in October.