Okay... this has nothing whatsoever to do with model railroading. That's the way it goes. One of my other hobbies, which actually predates my interest in model trains by a couple of decades, is photography. I was really into photography pretty heavily for a long time, and I would spend hours working in my darkroom every chance I got. I did it all.... black & white, high contrast Kodalith, color prints, slides, and Cibachrome process. I also got into a lot of 'experimental' darkroom stuff.
Nowadays, I no longer work in a traditional wet side/dry side darkroom. Like a lot of photographers, I've gone completely digital. So my 'darkroom' work is all carried out using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
However, I still have a lot of prints and transparencies from 'the good old days.' Here are a few of them. And no, these are not 'Photoshopped' pictures. They are scans of the original prints/slides I made years ago.
The first photo is a slide I shot. The subject is the Emperor's Palace, Tokyo, Japan. I shot the original in 1971, while in Japan. Several years later, I enlarged the slide on B/W paper to get the reversed image and then used blue toner on the resulting print.
The second photo is a B/W print shot in a makeshift 'studio.' A special Kenko lens was mounted on the camera lens to create the multiple wine glasses. After the film and print were processed, the print was put through a dark blue toner for several minutes.
The last photo is one I shot (on slide film) in the early morning at Lake Geneva, Switzerland, in 1982. No special processing was done; those are the actual colors captured in the early dawn hours.
From time to time, I will post other photos from the past. I realize that no one reads these blogs of mine, but I'll do it anyway.... :)
