I Drift Back in Time and I Find my Feet Down on Mainstreet

Foto.Feola.Friday for July 26, 2024

Sometimes even now
When I'm feelin' lonely and beat
I drift back in time and I find my feet
Down on mainstreet
Down on mainstreet

Foto.Feola.Friday

Lynn Gardner writes on my return from vacation last week: Christopher, Welcome back! Found this in an old book from decades ago. Main Street, East Rainelle, WV October 1971. Minolta  XG-A Tri-X 400 at 1/60 F-11, I think… . That was a 50 year old 3x5 print. I took a photo of it with my iPhone so the focus is not that great as the original print as old as it was is clearer. Coluld not believe I found it in and old book that had been put away for decades. Again hope you had a great time off with the family and again welcome back.

What a wonderful image! There’s some neat copy stands for smartphone scanning these days, too. I have the Lomography DigitaLIZA Max and like it (NOT an affiliate link):

Recommended. Though I use the base and film holders with a big copy stand with my dSLR mounted.

Next on Perfecting Equilibrium

Sunday, July 28th — About that time I wandered into a riot and a revolution: We were sitting talked out on the hood of a Philippine Army Jeep in the soft predawn dark smoking cigarettes. Or the colonel was smoking a cigarette and I was pretending, smoking the cigarette like a cigar, pulling the smoke into my mouth and puffing it out without ever ever inhaling. But the colonel had offered one of his own cigarettes from a case, and it seemed churlish to refuse, and also I wanted to sit and chat and understand exactly what was going on that night. We were parked in front of Olongapo City Hall, where the mayor’s mother and sisters had barricaded themselves in so no one could loot the office.