i'm writing a book - right here!

[AAC Cadet Leader]

why, thank you kindly, mcnarff!

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today i found some more slides i had misplaced. these will be moved back in a few days to fit into story some pages back:

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saving this space for additional photos and text.

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i seem to have writer's block lately... but at least i can still think up a few captions. and if a picture is worth a thousand words, then i'm exceeding my daily quota.

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[Wind In The Wires]

That is the best picture of you I have seen yet. It's the one you should save to show to your grandchildren when you tell them this story.

Keep writing Martha!

[Roryanimations]

Hi Martha and the rest of you people on this thread,

The pictures make it!! They are so varied and so rare, unique portraits of America c. 1980. I especially love the rich colour saturation - what camera were you using (if you can recall)? Anyway, it's an Eastman Colour look that is redolent with history and at the same time, the same windburnt, deeply focussed, friendly faces of the big country as you can still see today.

I guess you are right and you should just get it all down here and to heck with publishers and their ilk, but you have to know there is a much bigger audience waiting for this book when you get around to it!!

Rory

I had the exact battery-powered plane that young Scott Larson had, and I do believe I got it for Christmas when I was five years old! Old is Best!!!

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Originally Posted by Wind In The Wires

That is the best picture of you I have seen yet. It's the one you should save to show to your grandchildren when you tell them this story.

john,
thanks, i'm assuming you mean the picture of the lousy bangs trim and not the one of me with paul poberezny.

Originally Posted by Roryanimations

The pictures make it!! They are so varied and so rare, unique portraits of America c. 1980. I especially love the rich colour saturation - what camera were you using (if you can recall)?

of course, it was my old pentax ME with a 49 mm lens, and had an 80-210 zoom lens along that i interchanged constantly; and sometimes i added on my 2x converter lens.

i shot 4500 slides on kodachrome. many of the photos that have me in them were either taken by setting the timer, or were taken by folks who happened to have a camera hanging on their neck and knew how to take a picture or two using my pentax. unfortunately i didn't take their names down to give them photo credit. in hindsight i should've done that.

Anyway, it's an Eastman Colour look that is redolent with history and at the same time, the same windburnt, deeply focussed, friendly faces of the big country as you can still see today.

i agree, thanks for that well-described observation, rory.

I guess you are right and you should just get it all down here and to heck with publishers and their ilk,

no, no, no rory, you misunderstood me - i NEED a good publisher! i WANT a good publisher! i just don't want google or anyone else for that matter to grab my photos off this thread and put them all over the internet.

... but you have to know there is a much bigger audience waiting for this book when you get around to it!!

Rory

yes, i agree. i am hoping to find that general and world-wide audience, but i am willing to be patient - for now, anyway. thanks for your continued encouragement.

Originally Posted by frankie_bondo

I had the exact battery-powered plane that young Scott Larson had, and I do believe I got it for Christmas when I was five years old! Old is Best!!!

frankie, that's neat. i think i just i heard it somewhere that "old is the new 'new'!"

yes...I believe I also heard that "old is the new 'new'"...I just hope we all remember from who we heard it first!