Digital BW, The Print

Bob,

I loved your story and your photos. Glad to see you are living the dream!

Best Wishes,

 

Gary Wagner

garywagner.com

 

From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert
Johnston
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:12 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] What we do with Prints we can not keep...

 

  

Am a new member who just joined this group, am 80 and have been involved in
photography since 1936-37. Found a broken Kodak Vest Pocket Bellows camera,
with variable shutter and aperture. My Mom thought it broken beyond repair,
so when I asked if I could have it, she gave it to me. The bellows was off
the track. Took it apart and fixed it. 

My aunt who was the families "Official Photographer" who had her own
darkroom and so I begged her to teach me to use it. She had been traveling
the US in an old Ford and 10x10 Tent taking pictures in National parks. She
taught me to process film and make contact prints, and the rest is history.
Now for decades, Ive been the "Official Family Photographer" and we have a
very large family, with reunions every year that about 167 relatives attend.

Years ago when I retired, we moved from CA to AZ where Id always preferred
for vacations, into a 35ft Travel Trailer in a campground. Bought a 23ft RV
traveling 11,000-12,000 miles six months of the year. This limits our space
for pictures, especially since my wife and I are both artists, painting in
oils. Soooo, we mounted frames on the walls where space is available, like
five in the TT and two in the RV. Then I bought a huge 



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