Justfolk's photos with the keyword: Slides75Four

Waiting for a plumber to arrive, I've been scanning old slides today, some as old as 1975 -- like this one. I remember the day very well. It was September 29th, 1975. It stuck in my mind because, even though it was fairly cool in the air, Peter and I discovered the water in Conception Bay was quite warm. It does that every autumn, get warm, but I hadn't known it before then: the warmest saltwater temperatures are in late september or early October. Anyway, what was most remarkable and memorable was that Peter and I stripped down and went for a dip in the saltwater that day. I also remember the day well because it was the first time I had wild mushrooms. Some other friends at the party we were attending had spent the afternoon picking edible mushrooms, something I had not known about back then, and they turned them into a delicious mushroom soup. I've been a fan ever since. I don't know what kind of film this was, but it may have been a Fuji E-6 film. The camera was a WW2-vintage German vfr camera that I never mastered and eventually replaced with a Russian one. I was pretty good at exposures back then, though -- I just read the exposures off the film box. This was a cloudy day and the film was probably rated 80ASA, so the box would have told me something like f/3.5 at a hundredth of a second.