bloody internet in Tanzania…this should have been posted yesterday.
to finish momentarily with the color infrared Kodak Aerochrome (as I have another batch to finish here in Tanzania), here are some pictures. The weather was crap and I didn’t have bright colors to shoot at. I was just experimenting with a Rolleiflex and this film. For more on that unique special film, see Dean Bennici
anyway if the results are dull or uninteresting, there is always the option to convert in B/W
this was an Oldsmobile.
a Buick
what a pity to let these cars rot on the spot. Common scenery in the USA though. These ones were located in a fuel station in a nearly ghost town on Route 66, Ash Fork, Arizona. Such a desolate place… Most of the houses were for sale or rent, the windows were locked up with wooden planks, hardly no business, wild grass all over…nobody around. The bad weather didn’t help to improve the sad feeling.
a Chevrolet pick up.
amongst various films and equipment, I also carried along a Leica M6 loaded with some of the last Kodachrome 64 films, one of the best film ever produced. Bloody Kodak has stopped the Aerochrome a few weeks ago, the Kodachrome 25 and 200 some years ago, the 64 last year, some B/W films too…what next? Because the Kodachrome is a very special film on every level, the particular treatment required to develop it will cease at the end of the year, and till then there is only one lab in the world that still processes it.The Kodachrome was the film that got National Geographic started in color in 1935 or so.
A bit further, the weather improved, here in Seligman with a Ford Edsel.
I don’t know what the pick up is. But the pink monster in the back is an Edsel too.
and below in Hackberry still in Arizona.
On this little section of Route 66, I recognized a few things but there have been some changes too since ‘97, during my previous trip.
these 2 wrecks were new on the spot for instance. Others had vanished.
this splendid Corvette is not a static and is road worthy. I didn’t see it there in ‘97.
Great shot! Perfect for exhibit!
Posted by: maine it services | 28 March 2011 at 10:35 AM