Post by Deleted on May 22, 2011 11:40:16 GMT -5
I found a sleeve of negatives while cleaning up the other day. I included one image that gave me a lot of information'
The picture is of my office at a weekly newspaper where I was working. The calendar on the wall indicates it was August 1979. Over in the left corner of the photo id one of the early computer editing terminals, made by a company called CompuGraphic. (Stories were saved on 5.25 inch floppy disks).
Another way to tell it was the '70s is the ashtray on the desk. You could still smoke in an office in those days.
In the foreground on the right is a phot I shot of a bull rider at the local rodeo. On the left is the same photo on the front page of the paper.
The photo also reminds me of one of the poorer photographic choices of my life. I had a Mamiya M645 with an electronic finder that produced wonderful images on 120 film. But at the time this photo was shot I knew I was going to Norway in about six weeks and the Mamiya would have been a load to hall around. So I had traded my Mamiya for an Olympus OM1 and a couple of lenses (the owner's manual for the OM1 is on the desk). I still regret going from an M645 to an OM1 (I never did like that camera).
Oh yeah. On the back wall is a newspaper clipping. It's about a guy who was working at a local dairy who had admitted that he had escaped from an Alabama prison where he was doing life for murder. When I did some checking I discovered Alabama wasn't even looking for the guy! But when they found out where he was they decided they wanted him back. He claimed he would be killed if he went back to prison. He eventually was sent back to Alabama. Don't know what happened to him. I won a press association award for a series of article I wrote about the guy.
Wayne
The picture is of my office at a weekly newspaper where I was working. The calendar on the wall indicates it was August 1979. Over in the left corner of the photo id one of the early computer editing terminals, made by a company called CompuGraphic. (Stories were saved on 5.25 inch floppy disks).
Another way to tell it was the '70s is the ashtray on the desk. You could still smoke in an office in those days.
In the foreground on the right is a phot I shot of a bull rider at the local rodeo. On the left is the same photo on the front page of the paper.
The photo also reminds me of one of the poorer photographic choices of my life. I had a Mamiya M645 with an electronic finder that produced wonderful images on 120 film. But at the time this photo was shot I knew I was going to Norway in about six weeks and the Mamiya would have been a load to hall around. So I had traded my Mamiya for an Olympus OM1 and a couple of lenses (the owner's manual for the OM1 is on the desk). I still regret going from an M645 to an OM1 (I never did like that camera).
Oh yeah. On the back wall is a newspaper clipping. It's about a guy who was working at a local dairy who had admitted that he had escaped from an Alabama prison where he was doing life for murder. When I did some checking I discovered Alabama wasn't even looking for the guy! But when they found out where he was they decided they wanted him back. He claimed he would be killed if he went back to prison. He eventually was sent back to Alabama. Don't know what happened to him. I won a press association award for a series of article I wrote about the guy.
Wayne
