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| Hunkys (Arcata) - Humboldt County 1997 |
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| Nilsen (Ferndale) - Humboldt County 1997 |
Odd. Far northern California photos on the same roll of film as Nevada and Truckee photos. In the olden times you had to watch how many rolls of film you were using . . . film was expensive!
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| Andy's Diner - Truckee 1997 |
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| Wood Cabins - Truckee 1997 |
OK, so the very bottom of the diner photo had to be added-in using the Photoshop "fill" algorithm.
Not sure about the location of the bottom photo. Could certainly be Truckee, though . . . near the train station.
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| Southern Pacific Diesels - Truckee 1997 |
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| Southern Pacific Tracks - Truckee 1997 |
By 1996, years of financial problems had dropped Southern Pacific's mileage to 13,715 miles (22,072 km). The financial problems caused the Southern Pacific Transportation Company to be taken over by the Union Pacific Corporation.
But as we can see, there were still Southern Pacific locomotives rolling on the tracks in 1997.
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| Fire Truck (Virginia City) - Nevada 2026 |
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| Palm Sunday (Virginia City) - Nevada 1997 |
Virginia City is over 6000' elevation. Palm Sunday in 1997 was March 3, so there's a definite date for the bottom photo.
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| Reno - Nevada 1997 |
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| Hotel (Reno) - Nevada 1997 |
Scenes from a mini vacation we took in 1997 . . . stayed overnight in Reno and took a day trip to Virginia City.
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| Sheep - Humboldt County 1997 |
So maybe this was taken in Nevada. Photo is on the same roll of film as scenes from Reno and Virginia City in Nevada. But also locations in Truckee in California. And a few pix taken in Humboldt County!
Going to have to go with Humboldt County, I think. Photo has a northern California look to it.
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| Granite, Leaves - Yosemite 1996 |
Another photo taken with a 4x5 view camera. Had to use a tripod, of course.
I'd guess that this location was somewhere in the eastern side of Yosemite Valley, on the trail to Mirror Lake, where it's shady for most of the morning.
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| Dogwood Blossoms, Merced River - Yosemite 1996 |
I wanted to find a spot where I could have the river in the foreground with some dogwood blossoms in the dark forest beyond. Took some driving and parking at various pullouts before I found this scene.
I used a largeish Toyo Field 4x5 camera with a Nikon lens. This image is from a recent scan . . . a vertical crop from a 4x5 horizontal negative.
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| El Capitan - Yosemite 1996 |
The last 35mm shot in this series. I think that I was using Minolta SLRs during this time.
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| Church (Hornitos) - Mariposa County 1996 |
I visited this church earlier this year during my unsuccessful Yosemite trip.
The 35mm negatives for both this photo and yesterday's Soo Line photo were very detailed in the foreground elements, but the skies in both images were quite bad. I used Photoshop to perform a sky substitute for them both, then added artificial grain using Camera Raw.
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| Soo Line - Central California 1996 |
" . . . [the Soo Line] is named for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (MStP&SSM), which was commonly known as the Soo Line after the phonetic spelling of Sault . . ."
So, "sault" is pronounced as "soo." Didn't know that.
I guess this was taken somewhere on the route to Yosemite. There's railroad stuff to be seen in Escalon, so maybe I saw the boxcar there.
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| Yosemite Fall - Yosemite 1996 |
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| Sea Castle Apartments - Santa Monica 1990 |
This had been shown on the blog before, but looking at the scan more closely this time I realized that there was a self-portrait hidden in the image:
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| Sea Castle Self-Portrait - Santa Monica 1990 |
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| Wooden Building - Santa Monica 1990 |
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| Hot Dog Stick - Santa Monica 1990 |
Continuing with some 1990 film scans.
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| Jockey for Her - Santa Monica 1990 |
Santa Monica as the location of the photo is a guess. Other photos on the film roll were taken near the Santa Monica pier.
Price of regular gas as shown on the right hand side: $1.07.
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| Taking Photos - Los Angeles 1990 |
An early version of Melrose Avenue photographers. See this 2023 post, for a later example.
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| Pay Phone - Los Angeles 1990 |
Please note the displayed contact information for the Hollywood Army Recruiting Station.
(I recently scanned some 1990 film negatives.)
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| Bristlecone Pine (Great Basin National Park) - Nevada 1993 |
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| Desert Plants (Great Basin National Park) - Nevada 1993 |
In 1993 my wife Hali, my daughter Shawna and myself were on our way to Colorado. We were able to get a campsite in Great Basin National Park and stayed two nights. During the one day we had available I drove up to visit the bristlecone pine trees while they took a tour of Lehman Caves.
These photos were taken with a large format view camera.
