HaarFager's photos

The picture for the first month of my 2024 Beatles calendar. I've been getting the new one every year for forty years or so. I took this shot, developed the film and posted it - all in under six hours! Plus, I developed two other rolls of film during that time as well. The film was expired for about 20 years, but it seems to have been all right. Especially since I exposed it two stops below the box speed of 400. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC No. 1 Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm, f/1.7 Film: Fuji Film Superia X-TRA 400 (long expired and shot @100) Program: Manual (no battery) Aperture: F/16 Shutter Speed: “B” (bulb) 8 seconds Date: January 13th, 2024, 6.42 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 mins. and 30 secs. at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes (to keep chemicals clean) Blix: 6 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes at approx. 100 degrees Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature Water rinse: 2 minutes Kodak PhotoFlo200: 1 minute Konica TC-1 Superia X-TRA 400 2024 02ff

Some colored Easter eggs from 1978. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 35mm Date: April 2nd, 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica TC Easter Eggs 20gf

This was my Grandparents, my Dad's mother and father, taken on Easter Sunday, back in 1978. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 35mm Date: April 2nd, 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica TC Grandparents 01ff

Foma has been in business since 1921 making black and white film and film materials. This Fomapan Classic 100 is my favorite film made by them.

A wall of the house my family lived in back in 1978. Dad and I built this house. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 35mm Date: August 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica KSF 5035 07jf

The marquee for the motion picture "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" when it first came out in 1977. I saw it then and it's still one of my favorite movies. Taken with my very first camera, a Kodak 35 RF rangefinder. (I still have it, too.) Camera: Kodak 35 RF rangefinder (made in 1948) Lens: Kodak Anastar 50mm, f/3.5 Film: Kodak Kodacolor, 100 ASA 35mm daylight film Exposure mode: Manual (of course!) Date: 1977 Location: Harrisburg, Illinois, U.S.A. Kodak 35RF KSF 5035 CE3K 17if

Known as Harmonists, society members built three towns: Harmony (1804-1814), along the Connoquenessing River in Butler County, Pennsylvania; New Harmony (1814-1824) along the Wabash River in Southern Indiana; and Economy (1824-1906), along the Ohio River in Pennsylvania near Pittsburg. Several hundred members of the religious communal society emigrated with their leader, Johann 'George' Rapp (1757-1847), from Württemberg in the Rhineland, to America between 1803 and 1804. From 1805, until the society's legal dissolution in 1906, the Harmonists amassed considerable wealth in preparation for the coming new heaven and earth. When originally constructed by the Harmonists, this building served as a communal dormitory for the single men in Father George Rapp's religous society. At that time, it was known as Rooming House 4. After the Harmonists sold New Harmony to Robert Owen in January 1825, it became a community building where lectures, dances and other social activities were held. It was known as the Union Hall in 1859 when it was purchased by the Dramatic Association and became the second largest theatre and ballroom in Indiana. Eugene S. Thrall bought and improved the building in 1888, adding the front facade, cherry paneling, arches over the windows and door and a curved balcony. Serving primarily as a theatre until 1910, the structure was turned into a gas station in 1914. Double doors were installed in front to accommodate cars, the backstage area served as a grease pit and the balcony was used as auto parts storage. Purchased by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources in 1964, the structure underwent major renovations. Today, Thrall's Opera House hosts weddings, lectures, musical programs, small conferences and balls. A grand piano sits on the deep stage in the main room where once automobiles sat, waiting to be repaired. Camera: Minolta XG-SE Lens: Minolta MD Zoom 28-70mm, f/3.5, @ 28mm Film: Fuji Film Neopan Acros 100 (expired 06/2015) Shooting Program: Manual Aperture: f/11 Shutter Speed: 1/500 of a second Date: October 8th, 2020, 11.41 a.m. Location: New Harmony, Indiana, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals at 68 degrees Water pre-soak: 5 minutes Caffenol CM-RS: 11 minutes Water rinse: 1 minute Ilford Ilfostop stopbath: 1 minute Water rinse: 1 minute Ilford Hypam fixer: 5 minutes Water rinse: 2 minutes Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Minolta XG-SE Fuji Acros 100 Fountains 2020 22hf

My little brother, Matthew, taken when he was three years old. There's about 17 years age difference between him and I. That's my bicycle right behind him - I still have that bike. Oh, and I still have the brother, in case anyone was wondering. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor, 100 ASA 35mm Date: 1980 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta XD11 KSF5035 11hf

A little sketch I did preparatory to painting it with watercolors. There's a joke hidden in this sketch.

An old postcard I was given in a batch of old photographs. It dates from 1972. Thank you Isabel Blicker. (She was the one who mailed it.)

These remains happened to be from a New Year's Eve party I hosted at my house on December 31st, 1981. As I recall, it was a pretty good party. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 Date: January 1st, 1982 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF 5035 Christmas 1981 16ff

This mural is located in Marion, Illinois. They are sporting several murals all over their town and it really improves the looks of their city. This was taken with an old Kodak Instamatic camera. I reused an old 126 film cartridge and reloaded it with modern 35mm film - 35mm and 126 film are the same size, just different perforations. Camera: Kodak Instamatic 104 (Camerosity code CAOO – made in period 12/66) Lens: Plastic 43mm Meniscus Film: Agfa Photo Vista Plus 400 (expired on 10/2018 and reloaded into a 126 cartridge) Shutter Speed: 1/90 Aperture: F/11 Date: March 7th, 2023, 2.02 p.m. Location: Marion, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes (to keep chemicals clean) Blix: 6 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes at approx. 100 degrees Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature Water rinse: 2 minutes Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Kodak 104 Vista Plus 400 2023 05ef

These little lava rocks came from Meteor Crater (also known as Barringer Crater), in Arizona. Camera: Zenit ET No. 2 (made in the mid-1980s) Lens: Auto Sears 50mm, f/1.7 Tele-Converter: Montgomery Ward Auto 2X Tele-Converter Film: Kentmere 100 B&W Shooting Program: Manual Aperture: f/16 Shutter Speed: "B" (bulb) 4 seconds Date: April 30th, 2020, 8.36 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals – Adox Adonal @68 degrees Water pre-soak: 1 minute Developer: 1 ½ hour stand Water Rinse: 1 minute Stopbath: 1 minute Water Rinse: 1 minute Fixer: 8 ½ minutes Water rinse: 2 minutes Kodak PhotoFlo 200: 1 minute Zenit-2 Kentmere 100 May Day 09hf

This underground house is just two blocks up the same street as my house. I took this shot with an old 126 Instamatic camera by loading some 35mm into an old 126 film cartridge. Camera: Argus Carefree Magicube 126 Lens: Plastic Film: Agfa Photo Vista Plus 400 (expired 10/2018) 35mm reloaded into a 126 cartridge Date: March 9th, 2023, 11.12 a.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes (to keep chemicals clean) Blix: 6 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes at approx. 100 degrees Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature Water rinse: 2 minutes Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Argus Carefree Vista Plus 400 2023 Xgf

I dreamed of pastries a couple nights ago, so to satisfy that craving, I made some cinnamon rolls tonight. Taken on December 29th, 2023, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

This was my late Mother and Father, taken on Christmas Eve, 2006. I used my Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D DSLR.

Nashville, Tennessee has always been known as the "Athens Of The South," so this full-scale replica of The Parthenon was built as the centerpiece for their 1897 Centennial Exposition. When my parents got married in 1959, they chose to go to Nashville for their honeymoon. They photographed this other Parthenon while there.

I drew this when I was probably 13 or 14. I was a freshman in high school and it was for art class.