HaarFager's photos

Taken at a grade school basketball game held on October 30th, 2014. I was there because a friend of mine's son was playing in the game and she invited me to go.

A sign seen at a restaurant in Mt. Vernon, Illinois.

It seems like everything is closing in this world. Where I live, it'll end up with no physical stores for me to shop at. And I don't really like shopping online. I like to see what I'm getting, plus I'll bet the online stores that are putting out all the little Mom and Pop stores around my area, are creating a lot of unemployment. Those Mom and Pops still like to eat, but are losing their livelihood. People aren't going to like it when they have no physical stores to shop at if the power should go off or the internet gets shut down. That wouldn't be very convenient, would it? I just found out the other day that the drugstore where I get all my prints made has closed. I passed by where they used to be and there was just an empty building - no trace of what used to be inside it. I develop all my own film, but I don't have an enlarger to make any prints, so I need places like Walgreens Drugstore, which closed suddenly, to get my prints done.

This was me at the Shawnee National Forest back in November 4th, 2020. I was shooting with about 7 different cameras that day, so I asked a tourist couple if they would use one of them and take a picture of me with Camel Rock in the distance. This particular park area is called Garden Of The Gods.

A long exposure while moving down the road with the camera sitting on the dash of a 1964 Ford Thunderbird. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor II, 100 ASA 35mm Date: November 1979 Location: Eldorado, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF 5075 College 1979 18if

Looking like eerie fingers, I shot this cloud on 110 film. Camera: Continental Tele-Flash T-52 Film: Kodak Ultra 400 (expired on 06/2008) Date: October 31st, 2020, 2.43 p.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 Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature Water rinse: 2 minutes 3-110-1 Kodak Ultra 400 2020 01hf

A baseball game held at the Evansville Otters stadium. It was the same stadium where parts of "A League Of Their Own" was filmed.

Originally named Veterans Bridge when it was built in 1951, it was renamed the Martin Luther King Bridge for King in 1968 after the national civil rights leader was assassinated that year. It spans the Mississippi River between Illinois and Missouri, crossing into St. Louis at the Laclede's Landing area. Camera: Minolta Maxxum 300si Lens: Minolta AFZoom 35-70mm, f/3.5 Film: FujiFim Superia X-Tra 400 Date: March 23rd, 2013, 9.24 a.m. Location: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Minolta 300si Superia StL1 06hf

This is why my area of Southern Illinois is called "Little Egypt." There are several towns here that are named after real places in the Egypt, such as Cairo, Karnak, Thebes, Metropolis and Goshen, etc. There is also architectural nods in the building and decorations of places around the area - such as this doorway at the Marion, Illinois Veterans Hospital. The whole hospital is made to look like an ancient Egyptian structure on the inside. Camera: Pentax PC-700 Lens: 35mm, f/2.8 Film: Fuji Film Superia X-TRA 400 (expired on 12/2020) Date: July 12th, 2023, 3.42 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 Pentax PC-700 Superia X-TRA 400 First Roll 10iff

A sunny day at our local reservoir. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Zoom 28-70mm, f/3.5 @40mm Film: Kodak Gold 200 (expired on 08/2022) Shooting Program: Manual Aperture: f/22 Shutter Speed: “O” 1/100th of a second Date: November 12th, 2024, 1.28 p.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 Minolta XD11 Kodak Gold 200 2024 06ef

I took this picture about a year ago and just realized that the image was supposedly created by the late frontman of the band Nirvana, Kurt Cobain.

This looks like a small building at first glance, but I think it was made out of solid concrete. I have no idea what it's function must have been. There are a lot of oil wells around it, so I assume it must have been something related to the oilfield industry. Camera: Pentax PC-700 Lens: 35mm, f/2.8 Film: Fuji Film Superia X-TRA 400 (expired on 12/2020) Date: March 12th, 2025, 2.14 p.m. Location: Herald, 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 Pentax PC-700 Superia X-TRA 400 First Roll 26hff

My mailbox is the biggest one, out in front of my house. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Lens Film: Kodak Gold 200 (expired on 08/2022) Shooting Program: Manual Aperture: f/11 Shutter Speed: “O” 1/100th of a second Date: March 10th, 2025, 12.54 p.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 Minolta XD11 Kodak Gold 200 2024 37ff

A shot of the moon coming up over a little country road near where I live. Camera: Sears TLS (Mk II, made in 1967) Lens: Auto Sears 50mm F/1.7, M42 screw mount Film: Kodak BW400CN black and white 35mm Shooting program: Manual (no battery) Shutter speed: 1/30 sec. Aperture: F/11 Date: September 29th, 2012, 6.42 p.m. Place: White County, Illinois, U.S.A. Sears TLS01 01e

I made some small 12 inch loaves of bread today and they hadn't been out of the oven a half hour before I made this sandwich for lunch. There's nothing like the smell of fresh-baked bread. Taken on March 7th, 2025, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.