I don't know why i just thought of this. . .

Jan 20, 2008 03:50

 When i was a kid, my family visited these old ghost towns near the colorado copper mines. The mountains were all bright red and orange from the minerals oozing in the earth. My dad took pictures through one of the old mining building's aligned windows. He set his aperature speed just so and the resulting pictures were these bright orange, slightly ( Read more... )

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gentlemime January 24 2008, 01:25:40 UTC
My dad would always get his thumb in the pic, so we have a consistent record of who did the photo. :)
And then, there were the double exposures. my favorite is one which the opening of a window frames a bush of pink flowers. But from the photo, the window is unseen, and the flowers form what looks like the shape of a giant shrine/gazebo, and the space outside the flowers gazebo is a forest of willows, and the inside, is a more central medium sized image of my sister as a tiny child painting her brains out next to me.
He hung that on our wall 20 x 40 it turned out so well.

you are making me nostalgic for my Holga box camera.

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