Justfolk's photos with the keyword: 17925

This, like the previous two postings, is from a roll of Kodacolor VR-200 film that expired in April 1989. In September 2017, I put it in my Instamatic 500 and shot it. I like this pair because of the way that, on the one hand, a first glance makes them look almost panoramic but on a second glance just easily see the gigantic mismatch. I did a lot more contrast and colour adjustment with this picture than with the other two; however, because it taken in was brighter weather, I *was* able to shoot it with a little extra exposure. This is the more-or-less current view from outside the building I worked in for thirty-odd years. They have ended the pleasant view to the hillside beyond with a new five- or six-storey building. I age. I get crankier. But I continue to use old film to make pictures I like.

Here's one more picture from the roll of 1989-expired Kodacolor VR-G200 film ("Official Film of the 1988 Calgary Olympics!") I shot last month in my Instamatic 500 camera. The film did not hold up well over the years, but I suspect it would have been better had I given it another stop or two of extra exposure. I was shooting it at about ISO 50 most of the time as that was really the lower limit of hand-holdability. But I think this batch probably requires something more like 25 or even 12!

A few weeks ago I dug out my Kodak Instamatic 500 camera and shot a roll of 30-odd-year-old film in it. The results were pretty much as I expected. This was one of the pictures. It shows the propellers off the much-storied ferry the Motor Vessel William Carson. The Carson was the main ferry connecting this island with the rest of North America all through my childhood. I remember crossing to the mainland in 1964 on that famous boat. It served until the 1970s when it was replaced by more modern and larger ships. it went to the Labrador run in the mid-1970s but, in its second year there, it hit some ice and sank. No one was injured or lost. I was in Labrador that year and some people were very distressed because it was the first run of the year and the ship was carrying a lot of needed supplies for the coast of Labrador. Included in that loss, I was told, was the entire year's supply of beer -- all now at the bottom of the sea! Some time later, someone retrieved the Carson's propellers (not the beer, though) and they now lie on the lawn of the university's Marine institute.