Lotus Elan S4SE

Boulder, Colorado

Lotus Elan S4SE - Boulder, Colorado - September 1973. This harvest gold example hung around the sports car dealership my entire senior year. In retrospect - I first saw it the year before. It would still be there when I graduated the following June. I REALLY wanted want one of these cars when I was younger. From high-school until my late twenties - the desire was always there. Pentax Spotmatic 35mm F:2.0 Super Takumar w/Tri-X.

Supermarine Spitfire LF16E

London, Ohio Supermarine Spitfire LF16E- London, Ohio - July 1970. Nearly forty years after taking this photograph I found myself appreciating the abstract quality of it and decided to take a second look... This will happen to you if you go over your older images. Only the passage of time might enable you to appreciate why you even took the shot. A case, I suppose, for negatives over digital. Pentax Spotmatic w/24mm F:3.5 Super Takumar on Tri-X.

HGTV Nightmare Bathroom

Carlsbad, New Mexico

HGTV Nightmare Bathroom - Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico - August 2003.
Nikon FE2 w/24mm F:3.5 Auto Nikkor.

Pool Break

Dayton, Ohio

Pool Break - Dayton, Ohio - January 1971. Home for winter break - I was just fooling around in the basement. I used the overhead lamp to light the pool table/balls. I side lighted myself with my dads' Bausch & Lomb slide projector. I set the camera on self timer and waited to make the shot. This was my favorite of the series. Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic w/35mm F:2.0 Super Takumar w/Tri-X.

Steam Tractor Covention

Heuston Woods, Ohio

Steam Tractor Convention - Heuston Woods Ohio - June 1970. The people who make the tractors go are at least as interesting as the tractors. I don't remember much about this event. There was, however, a flea market associated with this event. I bought a 1946 Martin fly reel for $26.00. I still have the reel and it has served me well through the years. Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic w/35mm F:2.0 Super Takumar on Tri-X.

Life in the Lower Brackett

University of Colorado

Kincaide

Blake

John Millard and Kincaide

John Geyer

Life in the Lower Brackett - University of Colorado - October 1972. Four of us just hanging out one evening. I know where Kincaide is today. I have an idea where my roomate, Blake is located. Geyer and Millard are a mystery. Leica M2 w/50mm F:1.5 Summarit on Kodak 2475 B&W Film.

Fishing

Oregon Inlet, North Carolina

Putting Out

Day's Catch

Fishing - Oregon Inlet, North Carolina - May 1989. One of the favorite things about a week on the Outer Banks of North Carolina was to charter a boat and spend the day catching fish out on the open ocean. No matter how much fish you caught - it was always (strictly speaking) the most expensive fish on the planet. Nikon FE2 w/35-70 Sigma

Impending Tragedy!!!

Circleville, Ohio

Impending Tragedy!!! - Circleville, Ohio - October 2007. Onlookers were transfixed as the hanging chair ride spun up to velocity nobody had ever witnessed. The disk made a turbine sound with the overriding high pitched keening sound of small children screaming.

First to exit the disk were small items like stuffed animals, handbags, glasses, shoes and socks. There was an occasional vapor trail of vomit.

The speed increased . . . until two chairs broke free. One traced a ballistic arc through the air - crashing through the windshield of a Ford Escort three blocks. The other chair and occupants impacted a building at it's third story, striking with such force that it left a Warner-Brothers Cartoon style hole in the bick wall. Two upstairs rooms were completely destroyed.

With a loud crack - the central axle failed and the disk went skittering through the Pumpkin Festival crowd leaving a path of unspeakable carnage. Twenty seven people were killed instantly, another 62 severely injured.

Nikon FE2 w/35-70 Sigma + 4X Neutral Density Filter on 50 ASA Color Negative Film

Swainson's Hawk

Walden, Colorado

Swainson's Hawk - Walden, Colorado - May 1987. The last good shot of the day as I recall. This hawk was very obliging as I fumbled around getting the longest lens I had available on the camera. I had this enlarged to poster sized - something I ought to do that with some other images. Nikon FE2 w/300mm F:4.0 Auto Nikkor