Just Pictures

2013-12-25T12:36:00.002-08:00

The western Oregon forest in winter.

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Dad in Burma

2012-12-07T16:15:00.003-08:00

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Mt. Washington

2011-10-03T14:19:00.000-07:00

This is Oregon's Mt. Washington - it was originally known as squaw tit, an English translation of the original Indian.

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Kodachrome -RIP

2010-12-31T21:36:00.000-08:00

Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

~Paul Simon

This was a historic day, Paul Simon lived to see the day when Mama Kodak would take his Kodachrome away for good. A victim of the digital age.

Last Kodachrome Developer Stops Developing

Dwayne's Photo, a lab in Parsons, Kansas, was the last lab still processing popular film, which was created by Kodak in 1935. Dec. 30 was the last day Dwayne's would still accept rolls of the film for processing, according to Mashable.

Kodak announced they would cease production of the film in June 2009, as sales had declined. The rise in digital camera use among everyday people and professionals contributed to its decline.

At one point, 25 labs in the world processed the near extinct film, according to the New York Times. The Kodak-run facility closed a few years ago, and since then processing facilities in Japan, Switzerland, and other locations around the globe have since stopped developing Kodachrome.

Despite its use in many iconic photographs, including Steve McCurry's National Geographic 1985 cover image, many photographers have traded in for newer films or digital cameras. According to Mashable, Kodak actually gave McCurry the last roll of Kodachrome film last year, and he has since posted the pictures he took to his blog.

As some of you may know I have been making photographs for over 40 years. I have hundreds of Kodachrome transparencies, both 35mm and a few 6 x 6 taken with my beloved Hasselblad. I scanned some of them like the one above. By the time it became part of history it was rated at ISO 64 but when I first started shooting it was a very slow ISO 25 which is what made those ultra fast f1.4 lenses so valuable. The color was rich but not accurate - it always looked like a sunny summer day. Will I miss it? Probably not - I have been exclusively digital for about six years. If I go back to film it will be for black and white but even that's not very likely. But I will treasure my Kodachromes.

Neahkahnie Mountain

2010-08-18T21:26:00.000-07:00

Looking South from Neahkahnie Mountain.

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Lily

2010-08-01T11:01:00.000-07:00

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Iris Tao

2010-05-16T14:58:00.001-07:00

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Yellow Tulips

2010-04-03T14:43:00.000-07:00

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On The Isar

2010-03-21T18:11:00.000-07:00

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Comments

2010-02-06T18:38:00.000-08:00

I used Haloscan for comments here at Just Pictures and it is no longer in business. As a result I am now using Blogger comments and all previous comments are gone. I didn't delete them they just disappeared into the blogospheric ether.

Another Wave

2010-01-31T16:31:00.000-08:00

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Wave

2010-01-23T15:56:00.000-08:00

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Depoe Bay, Oregon

2010-01-22T20:25:00.000-08:00

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Waterfall in Austria

2009-08-29T18:20:00.001-07:00

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Tulip

2009-08-08T08:10:00.001-07:00

The Regional Arts and Culture Council has selected one of my pictures for an upcoming promotional brochure.

I used this same picture for a portrait of a local artist.

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Lily of the nile

2009-08-04T19:23:00.000-07:00

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Tiger Lily

2009-06-19T15:25:00.000-07:00

It's almost summer - time for the Tiger Lilys in the NW forests.

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Nearly Black Iris

2009-05-29T09:02:00.001-07:00

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Spring Color

2009-05-16T15:38:00.000-07:00

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Gray Scale

2009-04-29T19:23:00.000-07:00

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Tulips

2009-04-17T19:58:00.000-07:00

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Great Blue Heron

2009-03-07T17:55:00.001-08:00

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2009-03-04T17:28:00.001-08:00

Like many photographers over 40 I cut my photographic teeth on black and white. It was pure magic - loading the film on a reel and processing it, the result a strip of images. Then came the magic you could see - the print appearing on the paper in the developing tray. I have not taken a roll of film for almost six years. The magic may be gone but those wonderful black and white images don't have to be. The above was a color digital image taken last summer. It was converted to black and white and then the contrast was adjusted with PhotoShop. My first attempt but not my last. The gray scale is certainly better than the overwhelming green of the original.

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It's Spring!!!!

2009-02-20T18:59:00.001-08:00

The first crocus of 09

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A Winter Hunt in the Wetlands

2009-02-05T21:15:00.000-08:00

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