Veteran's Day 2009

A Vintage family Photo of my Father at Officer's Training during WWII. Qualified candidates went through 90 days of training, and were thus called '90 Day Wonders'. Think of the movie, 'An Officer and a Gentleman'. My Father served with the Famous Buffalo Soldiers, in a then segregated U.S. Army.


I'll be posting some of my Father's old photos from training and Italy for the rest of this week........

Visit Trojan's Corner, for the origins of our Veteran's Day.

And visit Bristol Daily photo to meet an old soldier, still alive and not quite ready to fade away.........

Faith on Film: San Carlos de Borromeo, Carmel

The Mission that was nearest to where I lived was San Carlos de Borromeo, better known as Carmel Mission.

I had thought to complete a series on the California Missions while I lived there. Then we moved to Colorado and the project ‘ended’, although I hope to do a bit more on occasional return visits.











All images shown here were taken with the SRT-202 using a tripod, except for the façade which was hand held. I had to crawl under a shrub to get the angle that I wanted. I have only printed a tiny portion of the scenes from this Mission:






Facing the front door




Main Altar






























For history buffs, this is where Fra. Junipero Serra, founder of the California Missions, is buried. His Funerary Chapel is shown above.





























Another exterior photo from the courtyard. And Behind the door we find.............





































And a dressed Virgin, like the many I saw in Spain years ago.






Film: Ilford ISO 100 & 400
Lens: Tamron 28-200 f/2.8 Zoom
Mission Façade and courtyard printed on Warm Tone Paper; interior shots on cold tone paper.

Faith on Film: Revisiting St Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco

I love Church Architecture! So I have a lot to draw upon as I start this series on my experiences photographing inside churches and their environs (as well as other spiritual places and symbols). Older images will be color and mostly ENC-II film; Recent images will be primarily Ilford Black and White Film, like today's example: St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral in San Francisco. This IS the Cathedral on the famous Cathedral Hill.


An 11X14 print on warm tone paper, taken from the Whole Roll, Single Subject Mosaic (July 29th Posting).






And A view of the Cathedral Dome. Also Printed on warm tone 11X14 paper.