Why is this man smiling?
Low Tide.
freezing rain
Old Cat
Why is this man smiling?
broken glass
Pond Scum #86
Net Barn, Along the Lower Columbia No. 1
jimgalli

Why is this man smiling?

Tom Springmeyer, Gasoline Alley, Carson City, NV.

Tom is one of those charmed people (like me) who gets to make his living playing with what he loves best. He has a little shop just at the most southern edge of Carson City, Nevada that is full of petroliana. A candy store for those of us that have no restraint mechanism against things nostalgic. Want the Bear alignment neon porcelain for Christmas?? Too late, already sold, $5500.

Even Tom was impressed with the 8X10 2D and 1860 Darlot. Weird lighting but I had moved him once and didn't figure I'd get away with it twice. Had to make it work somehow.
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Location
Gasoline Alley
Equipment Used
Kodak 2D 8X10 / Darlot Petzval
Exposure
1/15th f5
Film & Developer
Efke 100
Paper & Developer
Ilford MG IV / Chinese Amidol
Lens Filter
diatomaceous earth
jimgalli
No tilts or swings. Just point and shoot. The Petzval wide open takes care of the rest. The Chinese Amidol was a group buy a couple of years ago. A bunch of us went in together to get enough bulk to make it cheap. Some like it, and some I think may have been dis-appointed.
 
David A. Goldfarb
I think the diagonal line is great. Excellent use of an otherwise troublesome lighting condition.

Anscojohn--do a search on "chinese amidol" here or at the Azo forum for the whole saga. Short version: a bunch of us organized a group order for cheap amidol from a Chinese chemical manufacturer. It took two years, but we got our amidol, and the end cost was on the order of $100/kg.
 
Jersey Vic
Great shot; Glad I strumbled across this. And good thing you captured the bear-
 

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