American Road Trip 1979 on Kodachrome

DownUnder said:
Wonderful images, as usual.

Uncle Ansel would be proud of you!!

Floating down the Merced, is something I've always regretted not doing in my life.

I had a Nikkor 35/2.8 but I found the results it gave me to be distinctly meh! Eventually I sold it and bought a very old 35/2.0 which I used for several decades. I still have this lens, it lives on one of my Nikkormats, and I now and then I make images with it, sadly not as often as I should. Too much gear, too little time, too many other things to do in my life. The usual story.

Quick question from the top of my head. Just curious. Have you stayed in contact with any of your fellow travelers from all those years ago??

I still get Christmas cards from three American friends I made in New Mexico and Texas during my two stays in the USA in 1979 and 1982. Young's then (like me), now alll retired and relocated to Florida or Arizona. Time sure passes.
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Thanks. In answer to your question, no, I lost touch with them.
 
Richard G said:
#USA30-37 That cool blue shadowed face of Halfdome over the snowy approaches. Stupendous, almost abstract.

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Thanks Richard. I think there might have been some snow on top of Half Dome, but the foreground is light reflected off the granite.
 
lynnb said:
Thanks. In answer to your question, no, I lost touch with them.
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As we all do. It's a sad but usual part of living a long life. I am yet amazed that my American friends still keep in contact with me after, respectively, 45 and 43 years, but when we met we realized we were basically the same kind of people, with matching interests and similar thoughts and even ways of speaking and communicating. Which for me is rare as I'm very much an 'outsider' in this world.

For all this, at times I wonder what it is nowadays we have in common, other than old age...

When I look back on my travels - it surprises me no end that not only did I meet so many people, but after so long time I remember them as vividly as if we had met only recently. Your wonderful images have rekindled many of my memories of my long ago journey. Some memories are not always pleasant - I can still vividly recall the 'bad' as well as the 'good' moments in my past life, but I find when looking at a 50 year old Ektachrome or Kodachrome slide or even now-fading home processed 120 Anscochromes I took in 1962-1963, I not only remember making those image, but also many small details about that time in my life. Our brains are outstanding mental computers.

Many thanks to you again for posting all these remarkable photographs. They have brought back so many ol memories for me.
 
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ChrisPlatt said:
If I made a similar trip today I'd document it with Kodak Ektachrome E100 film.

Chris
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Me, I would use the last of my precious supply 35mm and 120 Fuji Velvia. Also Kodak Panatosmic-X for the monochromes.

I can't think of a more fitting way to use up my old films, too long kept refrigerated and unused. After looking at Lynn's images, I reckon Yellowstone alone would get me through all my remaining 'antique' film stock...
 
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I couldn't see any but just double checking - any San Francisco pictures here? I'm fascinated to see if it's much different and I suspect it might not be.
 
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