American Road Trip 1979 on Kodachrome

AAlfano said:
I love this last series of photos. I fear there wouldn't be anywhere near this much snow and ice in the same locations in 2024.
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thanks! I didn't realise it was an unusually cold year at the time, not knowing anything about American climate. Coming from temperate Sydney it was great to see this much snow.
 
Thanks Richard, DownUnder and Archiver for your thoughtful and generous comments - and some interesting observations. Being in a new environment, especially one as picturesque and interesting as the USA certainly sharpened the senses. I think the discipline of shooting Kodachrome was also an incentive to make every shot count.
 
Archiver said:
We've probably discussed this before, but I hope you have/will spend some time scanning your old work and backing everything up digitally. They will be so much easier to find, and perhaps post in a series not unlike this awesome one by @lynnb . And when you scan and catalogue them, you can write your remembrances of those times. One item on my list is to scan and back up all our family photos from the pre digital days.

As an aside about the importance of backup - I woefully neglected backup for a few years, and have lost access to images I shot during 2018, 2019 and 2020 due to a drive failure. I still have all the raws on a separate drive, but the videos are currently not accessible. I'm still so annoyed with myself that I didn't back things up. Normally I would duplicate files to another drive, but those years were pretty hectic and it just fell by the wayside. I hesitate to take the drive to a recovery specialist as it may confirm that the files are truly lost. So everyone reading this, back up your files!
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Yes to everything! It's currently in the works - but I've overseas again until April, so a delay is inevitable.

The consolation (for me) is, I'm adding to my collection of good images. Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei. Then home just after Easter..

It's good to travel while we sstill can. Lots of time for scanning, keywording, captioning, posting later, I hope - when I'm old.
 
#USA25-16 Along the Firehole River, Old Faithful geothermal area, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, 01 June 1979

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#USA25-23 Old Faithful geothermal area, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, 01 June 1979
This might be Castle Geyser, and not Old Faithful as I first thought.
One of my earliest influences was Ernst Haas and his book The Creation. I was thinking of it when I took this photo.

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lynnb said:
#USA25-23 Old Faithful geothermal area, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, 01 June 1979
I think this might be Old Faithful.
One of my earliest influences was Ernst Haas and his book The Creation. I was thinking of it when I took this photo.

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I think this is Castle Geyser, which is near Old Faithful.
 
In terms of logistics, where you posting your films along the journey, or did you save them for when you were back?
 
Stelios said:
In terms of logistics, where you posting your films along the journey, or did you save them for when you were back?
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Film processing in the USA in 1979 was word class. Far better than anything available in Australia. Also much cheaper. So I reckon Lynn had all his films souped at the end of his trip. I recall Kodachrome cost US $4 to process a 36 exposure roll.

I say this with some experience if not authority, as my Australian processed color negative films from the 70s have all faded, but the American processe does are almost as good as new. QC in 'Merka was of a far higher standard than in say Sydney where labs basically jus churned out the work on the basis that when the time came that the images faded, too much time had passed and nothing could be done about it. Que sera sera.

I say this all the ore as my Ekrachrmes processed in the USA in 1979 have lasted. Most of those I had done in Sydney late in the '80s and '90s have color shifts. Interestingly, the Ekta I sent to Kodak in Coburg while it did processing, have lasted longer.

All this said by what I see. n my own images.
 
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