Costa Rican kids April 1974

Shoeshine boys in San Isidro, the only city we stayed in on our way from San Jose to the dock on the Sierpe River where we boarded an open boat to go to Cano Island.

Our rental car was a Corvair ("unsafe at any speed" said Ralph Nader).  These were country kids at one place we where stopped briefly on the way to our river rendezvous.

I don't know how the lines in the above photo came about, but it's the way they were printed, not because of later damage.  Could have been the film was damaged by being x-rayed in San Salvador or in Managua.  Soldiers and high-security and maybe some paranoia were present in both those airports on our stopovers back to New Orleans from San Jose.  In San Salvador for some reason our departure flight was delayed, and the airline put on a big outdoor luncheon for us at a nice hotel, maybe a Hilton.   I have two photos of the outdoor food buffet.  They'll be posted at the end of this Costa Rican trip photo series.

Photo montage of Wyoming trip last summer

Pinball in a Paris cafe November 1992

I was uncomfortable taking pictures of people in Paris when I was there in late November 1992. I had a used Pentax K-1000 I'd just bought in Austin, where I was living at the time. But this was an easy shot to take while I was sitting at the bar all by myself drinking a cafe noir (espresso in demitasse cup) late in the evening on what was Thanksgiving Day in the U. S.   I developed (printed) this 6" x 9" photo from the negative in Rita Henry's darkroom in Little Rock in November 2014.  I didn't get interested in using the darkroom, though, so this is the only photo I've ever developed myself, although I spent time in Pat Calkins' darkroom when we were in junior high together and he took and developed photos. I remember being in his red-light-lit closet darkroom with him, and also being with him when he took a pinhole photo near 28th and Hazel in Pine Bluff.  I still like taking pictures with old-fashioned cameras, but don't like developing them myself.

Old shipping crate from Munich

It's a wooden shipping crate (about 3'x2'x2') that someone brought into the Recycling Center and gave me about nine years ago. Looks old enough to be pre-WWII.  Might not be the same company, but there's still a Rosenthal store in Munich.

Not ready to get up

Me, Steven, Drew on Signal Mt. in July

On Signal Mountain, Teton Range in background.  Drew is working at Breckenridge this winter.  Steven and Mary are visiting him at Christmas.  Photo taken by Drew.  Yes, a selfie!

Living room southeast corner