American Road Trip 1979 on Kodachrome

[lynnb]

#USA30-19 California redwood, Yosemite, 07 June 1979.
I asked one of my travel companions to take this photo of me with my Nikon FE and 35mm f/2.8

 

[DownUnder]

X rated color movies cost more than a brothel guide.

Yes... In 1979 Tucson and Phoenix in Arizona had street blocks of them. Mostly in the industrial-manufacturing suburbs of those cities.

I noticed them entirely in passing, of course. Of course...

Thinking back to that era in my life, I distinctly do not recall ever having gone into one such shop - but they were there, and so many of them.

Now, with the inevitable bittersweet deja vu of old age, I wonder if I missed anything. Mine has been a sheltered life in many ways.

Of course there are many such shops now in Melbourne and Sydney. So I could... no, I prefer my lofty illusions to dismal realities, the latter of which there are nowadays far too many in our sad world.

 

[rodt16s]

X rated color movies cost more than a brothel guide.

The guide was in B&W

 

[lynnb]

#USA30-20 Campground at Wawona, Yosemite, 07 June 1979.

 

[lynnb]

#USA30-21 Hotel Wawona, Yosemite, 07 June 1979.

 

[lynnb]

#USA30-22 Wawona, Yosemite, 07 June 1979.

 

[lynnb]

#USA30-23 Yosemite valley, 07 June 1979. Half Dome is in the background.

 

[lynnb]

#USA30-24 Yosemite Falls above the Merced River, Yosemite, 07 June 1979.

 

[DownUnder]

Can I be the first to say it - I hope you find more boxes of your 1979 slides...

 

[lynnb]

Can I be the first to say it - I hope you find more boxes of your 1979 slides...

Thanks, but no hope necessary - I've scanned them all to TIFFs, and am slowly working my way through processing the scans (dust and hair removal, some colour adjustments where necessary), resizing and saving to JPG. It's a slow process, not least because I've got a lot on my plate at the moment. Thanks for your patience!

 

[lynnb]

#USA30-25 Another shot of Yosemite Falls above the Merced River, Yosemite, 07 June 1979. You'll guess from this and following pictures I like waterfalls 🤣

 

[lynnb]

#USA30-25 Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, 07 June 1979.
Taken with the Nikkor 105mm f/2.5

 

[lynnb]

#USA30-27 Cycling in the village, Yosemite National Park, 07 June 1979.
The dynamic range of this scene was too wide for Kodachrome 25

 

[lynnb]

#USA30-28 In the valley, Yosemite National Park, 07 June 1979.
It's hard not to feel enchanted in a place like this...

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

@lynnb your photos are making me want to go visit Yosemite again as I was there as a youth when we vacationed there in the early '60's. The only problem is there's so many dang people there now it's not like it used to be.

 

[lynnb]

#USA30-32 In the valley, Yosemite National Park, 07 June 1979.

 

[lynnb]

#USA30-33 In the valley, Yosemite National Park, 07 June 1979.

 

[lynnb]

#USA30-35 In the valley, Yosemite National Park, 07 June 1979.

 

[lynnb]

#USA30-36 Looking up from the valley, Yosemite National Park, 07 June 1979.

 

[Freakscene]

I love the way you are drip feeding us these.