Which Kit, What Film For Santa Fe?

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

The cloudless blue sky and hot sun is typical santa fe summer sky. It gets even HOTTER if you drive down to Albuquerque, 2000 feet lower in elevation in a 45 mile drive, you can feel the temp rising as you drive!

There are no notices up anywere about the protests, everyone in town knows about it and just shows up.

Yes, 30,000 a month is what I was told when I lived there too. One of my clients out there had to close her store downtown and go online only cause it just got too ridiculous. All the stores are owned by Saudi Arabian citizens on the plaza. The local Hispanics were pissed and most of them from the old families avoid the plaza now. The touristy shops owned by foriegners are all very, very expensive places that sell nothing that local people want. The Spanish people there told me that 20 yrs ago the stores were all locally owned and were places that sold things locals wanted (middle class restaurants, woolworths, etc).

 

[wgerrard]

The touristy shops owned by foriegners are all very, very expensive places that sell nothing that local people want. The Spanish people there told me that 20 yrs ago the stores were all locally owned and were places that sold things locals wanted (middle class restaurants, woolworths, etc).

I didn't see a grocery anywhere near the central part of town. The nearest drugstore is about a mile south on Cerillos (I had to find one after taking that fall.) There's a Whole Foods in the 700 block of Cerillos.

Re: photography -- Saw a photo lab in the 600 block of Cerillos, one camera shop on Sandoval downtown and another on San Francisco, and a little "Photo Express" on a side street near St. Francis cathedral.

I spent a year or so in Phoenix, so the temps didn't surprise me.(Actually, only in the 80's and low 90's). But, I'd forgotten the Sun's punch at elevations like Santa Fe's 7000 feet.

 

[shadowfox]

hey Will, do you mean a 6cm tall negative? for six-inch negative I could take a 10x15 folding plate camera, with film inserts of course 😛

Nope, I stand my ground! six-inches-tall negatives will blow away anything taken with a piddly 6 cm 😀 😀

(of course you're right 😱 )

 

[Trius]

i always figure people here dont want to see the obscene old stuff though

Then why do folks here show their Barnacks? 😀

 

[shadowfox]

lol, hehe

one of these days i should post a few pics from the ol plate cameras, they are only the size of book folded up yet make huge negs, i always figure people here dont want to see the obscene old stuff though

I think people here are exactly the sort who appreciate obscenely old stuff 🙂

I know I am, please post the pics from the plate cameras, not just the pics, the cameras themselves also.