Keith, I played around with the cropping on the opening shot, but then decided to stick with an 8x10 format for all the photos. Sort of what you would get from a commercial developer. You see the parking lot, the shape of the building, and get a sense of where this is located. It's not meant to be artful, but representational. Later on I plan to redo some of the shots from this travelouge, but for some other use.
Robert, there is very little interesting 'happening' in my hometown, so I would have lost the light hanging around waiting for it. As it happens, I was loading up the Yashica with color film (since I originally was going to shoot b&w in the Konica C-35), and a Budweiser truck pulled up to make a delivery, and almost parked right under the sign. That would have blocked a good portion of it, so I felt lucky to get the shot and get out of there before someone else decided to park a vehicle in the way.
Oftheherd, the lens is a Yashinon 2.8/38. Just a touch wider than I like (waiting on my GX to come in), but a decent performer.
John, I had only a couple hours to myself , and didn't get to hit the really high spots. One could spend days making detailed photos of the building features, storefronts, and people of the town. And that's just around the square. Somewhere in my archives I have a photo of the monument that was erected out in the southern part of the county denoting the geographical center of the United States, but right now I don't remember after what census this was done. But I ran out of time to get an updated shot of it.
PF
