Friday, April 1, 2022

[Dreamin]

Steve, when you say, "He would take them for a "ride of their life"." it reminded me of a horse my dad got us when I was 12....her mouth was toughened and she would take advantage of a rider that did not know how to control her.....one friend was going out the lane on her when she turned on her heel and ran a mad dash back into the barn.....my friend was ok, but it could have turned ugly very quickly!!

[Rich]

Pretty yellow rose of Texas Dave! Thanks for the comment.

Thanks Lorell and glad you had a good time at the museum. You seem to have quite a few museums to go to and this one is pretty awesome looking. I am amused by the fact that the rail cars look like stage coaches with iron wheels! Pretty cool!

Steve, what a neat looking buggy and the horse looks proud to be pulling it!
And the Studebaker, a beauty. I had one like it back in the day!

Grant, wow quite cool looking manips!

Thanks Natalie. I was riding a Palamino back in my teen years. He got wind of his barn took off running. Went near a tree and I got knocked off by a branch. No damage except for my pride, and the walk back to the barn.

[Adamphotoman]

Rich, THought you would get it as you knew darkroom.
Natalie, I suppose the images need an explanation. The first one is not a pagan ritual. The city burns a pile of Christmas trees every year. This year the Prairie Sculptors mage giant snowmen around it. When lit people gathered and the snowmen melted. Long before digital high ISO I shot in high speed B&W. Later I posterized using Kodalith film and made colour Cibachrome copies. Using a colour enlarger I first set up a B&W RC print as a register template. I had a heavy light tight paper box I could put the exposed Cibachrome paper in. One Kodalith positive per colour was used and registered by eye. Then 1 at a time each sheet was carefully put in the 16x20 paper easle. exposures were made. The last one was the yellow white of the fire. The first was the blue sky.

I actually sold 15 or so framed copies, much to my amazement [and everyone elses - especially the framer who kept getting orders.

The other is what the river looks like at -40 below. A heating plant keeps the river from freezing over, but copious amounts of ice fog is produced. It is quite magical with the sun bursting through. This one is a hand coloured B&W copied to 4x5 slide film and again a cibachrome print. The only way I can see it to be disturbing if there was a fire breathing dragon flying in the mix. It really looks like this.

[Dreamin]

Interesting! Second one looks like a city burning.....but the images are small because we have to limit, would be nice to see them in person and larger!!