A colleague at work gave me a Kodak Tourist Camera from the late 40s. It is all manual, and a lot slower to use than a modern camera. You have to set the shutter speed, the aperture and the distance the subject is from the camera. Then you cock the shutter, look through a view finder that is a close approximation of what will be on the negative. The negative is 6×9 cm. It’s huge! I wasn’t sure if the camera would function, especially if the bellows on it was still light tight. No worries!
More from the series. In each, there is a plant or plants, put in a place they would never be found naturally. Nature captured and controlled for our pleasure.
Church on Walker Road
Realty office, Division and State Street, Dover, DE. Love this red tree!
Tree in Park, Dover, DE
Do not Enter, Silver Lake Park, Dover, DE
Some of the tens of thousands of bulb that bloom in Dover every year.
Here are some of the Holga photos I did at Gettysburg Battlefield New Years Eve day. I developed these myself too.
The statue is life sized and seated on a bench. Tons of folks come up and sit with him for photos.
I loved the light on the canon while I was there. I like to make my Holga images so they are ambiguous for when they were done. Was it a few weeks ago, or back in the 30s? Using Kodak Tri-x film adds to the ambiguity since it's been around so long.
Apparently there were companies that had catalogs of available statues to combine with available bases to be used as markers on all the battlefields of the war in the 1880s and 90s
A hundred yards or so to the left of this is "the Angle" where Picketts men surged to and were forced back from. Far back in the distance is the point the Rebels came onto the battlefied in full view of Union defenders Note there is a modern digital version of this in the post below this. Which version do you like better?
