Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Following on from roll #6 ('Suva') posted in this thread.
I think this may be my favourite roll so far … the film is Agfa again and is missing a few frames from the end where the film looks like it has broken judging by the jagged edge. I think this may have been shot prior to the first roll I posted from Banff which was #3 from memory. Out of the thirty two exposures on the roll these fifteen stood out and the rest weren’t exactly ordinary … that’s some keeper rate and indicates that the photographer seems more at home in the northern climes and really relates to this environment.
The image that really blew me away is the shot taken across the car from the passenger’s seat where an amazing landscape complete with travelling steam train can be seen … this framed by the windscreen and steering wheel of the car and the partial out of focus profile of the driver/chauffer … just fantastic IMO and probably my favourite of anything I’ve seen so far! The landscape just after this isn’t half bad either, as is the shot of the young horse wrangler pulling his gloves on!
The next roll, India, is scanned and ready for upload and equally impressive … but I won’t be able to post that until early next week as I have to do a three day photographic documentation of a QUT event starting tomorrow and finishing Sunday night … and I’ll be staying on location for that period.
Once again … please enjoy. I think I’ve left you with something quite significant to browse until I post the next roll’s images in a few days.
Cheers and thanks again … Keith.
I think this may be my favourite roll so far … the film is Agfa again and is missing a few frames from the end where the film looks like it has broken judging by the jagged edge. I think this may have been shot prior to the first roll I posted from Banff which was #3 from memory. Out of the thirty two exposures on the roll these fifteen stood out and the rest weren’t exactly ordinary … that’s some keeper rate and indicates that the photographer seems more at home in the northern climes and really relates to this environment.
The image that really blew me away is the shot taken across the car from the passenger’s seat where an amazing landscape complete with travelling steam train can be seen … this framed by the windscreen and steering wheel of the car and the partial out of focus profile of the driver/chauffer … just fantastic IMO and probably my favourite of anything I’ve seen so far! The landscape just after this isn’t half bad either, as is the shot of the young horse wrangler pulling his gloves on!
The next roll, India, is scanned and ready for upload and equally impressive … but I won’t be able to post that until early next week as I have to do a three day photographic documentation of a QUT event starting tomorrow and finishing Sunday night … and I’ll be staying on location for that period.
Once again … please enjoy. I think I’ve left you with something quite significant to browse until I post the next roll’s images in a few days.
Cheers and thanks again … Keith.
dexdog
Veteran
Several good ones in this batch. I like the fourth shot of the cowboys and the car
tj01
Well-known
I like last and second last
dogbunny
Registered Boozer
Yeah, this roll is pretty impressive. I like the Texaco station.
robur
Established
Amazing again. I like the cowboy´s photo too.
TennesseJones
Well-known
great stuff keith, thanks again. agree with you about the steam train, excellent..
oftheherd
Veteran
Yep, that one is interesting. How about the deer in the shot right after the shot of the Texaco station?
I see what you mean about the shot with the steam engine Keith. I am surprised they didn't stop and try to get another. But many good shots here for sure.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
I was also very intrigued by the first image and would like to hear opinions as to what her motivation for it may have been and what she was atempting to convey!
Or conversly is it just a snap of an animal behind a fence with no real meaning?
Or conversly is it just a snap of an animal behind a fence with no real meaning?
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
hteasley
Pupil
Excellent shots. I'm fond of the last one, especially.
kemal_mumcu
Well-known
Fascinating Keith. I'm blown away by the quality of these shots. The train is Canadian Pacific and their mainline through the Rockies. I also think the roadways featured in these photos would have been the infant Hwy 1. Canada's transcontinental road. It's been much improved since. 
I love the shot with the train too.
I love the shot with the train too.
dfoo
Well-known
The cowboys and the car is a fantastic shot. My favorite by far.
charjohncarter
Veteran
I went to Banff in 1952 on a family vacation. We stayed a Lake Louise which I don't see here. I know this is the 30s but even the cars look like they did in '52.
dcsang
Canadian & Not A Dentist
Dingos don't exist in Banff.. maybe wolves or coyotes.. but not dingos per se
That said.. it's cool to see these old images.
I would hazard a guess that these folks must have been fairly "well to do" if they traveled so much so long ago and were able to get such incredible images.. these are really well done.. kudos to you Keith for getting this stuff out of those rolls !!
Cheers,
Dave
That said.. it's cool to see these old images.
I would hazard a guess that these folks must have been fairly "well to do" if they traveled so much so long ago and were able to get such incredible images.. these are really well done.. kudos to you Keith for getting this stuff out of those rolls !!
Cheers,
Dave
photogdave
Shops local
Honestly, I think it's just a snap. We were in Banff and Jasper this summer and my girlfriend, who doesn't normally take a lot of photos, was snapping like crazy at any kind of animal she saw along the road!
Those buffalo are every where but people are fascinated by them and will come to a screeching halt in the middle of the highway just to grab a quick pic of one!
akitadog
Established
Awesome 75 year old pictures
Awesome 75 year old pictures
These pictures are really awesome. It's like looking at an archive in Banff.
Wonderfull to see them.
Thanks for posting.
Akitadog
Awesome 75 year old pictures
These pictures are really awesome. It's like looking at an archive in Banff.
Wonderfull to see them.
Thanks for posting.
Akitadog
oftheherd
Veteran
oftheherd
Veteran
Dingos don't exist in Banff.. maybe wolves or coyotes.. but not dingos per se
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Dave
Actually, you may well be right. Those would be long ears for a deer.
ampguy
Veteran
very nice Keith, I wonder if they had a tripod? The waterfall shots look like very slow shutter speeds?
Richard G
Veteran
Keith, I think that first one is framed deliberately to include the livestock fencing against the mountains. Many in this series show a great eye for composition, and the fencing itself may have been of interest to someone with a love of horses. A lot of what I have learnt in the last couple of years on this forum looking at photographs and thinking about how to take a better picture and concentrating when behind the viewfinder, or more importantly while the camera is in hand, this fine person has learnt all of that so well. A friend of mine says that there are a 1000 great poets we'll never hear about, and that is true of photographers too of course. That's another great thing about this project. Here is this nameless photographer, hidden from view for 75 years, being posted on RFF to show us what she saw, how capable she was, and how back then, earlier, since and now there are some fine photographers from whom we'll never see one image.