2025 World Photography Day – Post your favorite image
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Silversnapper
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My first grandson, resting in an incubator shortly after he was born by an emergency caesarean section in 2000.
Scanned from a commercially produced print, camera details long since forgotten I'm afraid. I hope this is admissible.
Scanned from a commercially produced print, camera details long since forgotten I'm afraid. I hope this is admissible.
Great idea for a thread! My favorite image was taken in March of 1984 shortly after I purchased my first 35mm SLR while stationed in Korea. It was snowing like crazy. Someone was walking down the road right outside my barracks. This is a scan of a print. Pentax Super Program with the legendary SMC Pentax-A 28mm f/2.8 lens.
For some reason, I don't have a low resolution image saved to my hard drive, and when trying to resize the original .psd file, the image gets crunchy (overly sharp). So I will share the original Nikonites link to this image which is my favorite image.
My editing style has changed over the years, but I was coming to grips with editing RAW images back then and want to preserve this memory – I was happy with my ability to edit the RAW file which I did in Adobe Bridge (now I use Camera RAW). This is the Delaware State Canal which is located in Pennsylvania (not in the state of Delaware). This canal runs parallel to the Delaware River. This lower end of the canal isn't maintained nearly as well as the upper end. So to find a stretch that was so nice was unusual. Capturing the scene with this sky was a plus!
My editing style has changed over the years, but I was coming to grips with editing RAW images back then and want to preserve this memory – I was happy with my ability to edit the RAW file which I did in Adobe Bridge (now I use Camera RAW). This is the Delaware State Canal which is located in Pennsylvania (not in the state of Delaware). This canal runs parallel to the Delaware River. This lower end of the canal isn't maintained nearly as well as the upper end. So to find a stretch that was so nice was unusual. Capturing the scene with this sky was a plus!
Clovishound
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It's been posted before, but I guess this is one of my favorites, I have a family photo or two that mean more to me personally, but this is my favorite outside of that.
This is one of my favorites, taken Thanksgiving weekend in 1981 west of Cumberland, MD with a Nikon EL-2 on Kodachrome. I was living in NJ at the time and someone got the idea to pile a bunch of us into a friend's '64 Dodge Dart and drive 300 miles south to see trains. So there we went. Despite the overcast, this image captures the grandeur of heavy mountain railroading and fine memories of good friends. Much has changed on the railroad and in our lives since then, but this treasured slide remains.
Around what area did you live in New Jersey, @Sandpatch? And in what state was the train image taken? I'm just a couple miles away from NJ in Pennsylvania, but there aren't any cliffs around here unless I head 35 to 40+ minutes north of here. I moved to Woodbridge, NJ for 5 years before returning here.
This is exquisite!
BF Hammer
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I decided to take a photo of (some) of my film cameras I used over time. The Kodak Bulls-eye medium-format that began it all is long gone since childhood. Also missing is my first 35mm point-n-shoot that developed a nasty light-leak after I attempted to put it in a coat pocket and it bounced off a tile floor in a church. I just recently used the N70 last month and am waiting on the film to be processed and scanned.
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Nice collection! Reminds me somewhat of my previous cameras. I started out with an Ansco 126 camera followed by a Kodak 110. From there I went to a Yashica rangefinder to a Minolta XG-M 35mm then to an Olympus 35mm point and shoot with a zoom. Finally I switched to Nikon and still have my Nikon N70 and N90s (which are the only cameras I kept).
I hope you will share the scanned images from your N70. It's been ages since I used mine. Once I got the N90s, I don't ever remember going back to the N70.
I lived in Butler, NJ about 30 miles north of Newark. The picture was taken at Sand Patch, PA, just over the MD state line northwest of Cumberland, MD. It's where the B&O RR (CSX today) crested the Alleghenies and it's where my Nikonites moniker came from.
These same friends and I took a lot of train pictures around Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton back then. There's a lot of lovely scenery in eastern PA around where you call home.
BF Hammer
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It was my plan all the time to share the photos. It's a legacy project. My brother Tim died 3 years ago and I took his photo gear, or at least the stuff that had a prayer of working. Among the stuff was this N70, and N8008. Also found 2 rolls of Kodak BW film sealed in box and expired since 2006. I had to repair the film door of the N70. N8008 won't power up at all, despite my troubleshooting. I made it a mission to shoot that film with his camera that he was always too sick with emphysema to do. Honestly I wish it was the N8008 that I got working because I discovered I don't like the N70 controls much.
That 'fan' display on the top didn't go over well with a lot of owners. I had to sit down with the owner's manual to figure it out.