HaarFager's photos

This is what I fixed for Thanksgiving dinner this year. Turkey, mashed potatoes, homemade gravy, green beans, stuffing, homemade rolls, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. I made everything on Thanksgiving Day except for the pumpkin pies, which I always make the night before Thanksgiving.

My turkey this Thanksgiving didn't have any legs or wings on it when I unwrapped it, so I got out a freezer bag of turkey meat, which had two legs and two wings in it, thawed them, and attached them to the body of the bird with corn dog sticks. That's why I called it "Frankenturkey."

Some members of my church and I travelled over to nearby Evansville, Indiana yesterday so that we could make up boxes of food to give away. The place had two big, long assembly lines and as the boxes moved along it, each person would put their item into the box. Each family got things like green beans, corn, yams, stuffing mix, potatoes, celery and a whole turkey. The event, which was called "Gobbler Gathering," gave out 140,000 pounds of food for the less fortunate so that they could have a good Thanksgiving dinner. Taken on November 26th, 2024, with my Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W710 digital point and shoot camera.

Children's drawings featured on a stamp from Bulgaria.

A modern blimp on a stamp. And I use Fuji Film, too.

Somewhere I do have the fourth stamp in this set of four commemorating the Boston Tea Party.

Another shot on film of the Fall tree picture I take every Autumn. Camera: Minolta X-7A No. 4 Lens: Minolta MD 50mm, f/1.7 Film: Kodak Gold 200 (expired on 8/22) Shooting Program: Manual Aperture: f/8 Shutter Speed: 1/60 of a second Date: October 25th, 2024, 11.05 a.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 Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Minolta X-7A-4 Gold 200 Fall Tree 2024 12kf

Some Kodak Gold 200 film. This image was taken on Kodak Gold 200, and is a fine example of what this film looks like when used. Camera: Minolta X-7A No. 4 Lens: Minolta MD Zoom 28-70mm, f/3.5 (shot @ 70mm and 1:4 macro) Film: Kodak Gold 200 (expired on 8/22) Shooting Program: Manual Aperture: f/22 Shutter Speed: “B” (bulb) 20 seconds Date: November 2nd, 2024, 9.39 a.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 Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Minolta X-7A-4 Gold 200 Fall Tree 2024 33if

I made these Irish Mist Brownies for a funeral dinner held at my church yesterday. A member had died and their family requested the dinner for after the funeral, which my church does all the time. Taken on November 24th, 2024, with my little Samsung L100 digital point and shoot camera.

This is a Hot Wheels, one of their rare castings that isn't an automobile. It's the Goodyear Blimp.

This is a local Bigfoot statue. There are a few statues around my area and this one is located in the Shawnee National Forest area. Taken on October 23rd, 2015, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

I stitched together two images to achieve this panoramic shot of a little Baptist church in Opdyke, Illinois. They were holding Vacation Bible School at the time. Notice the Romans onstage. Taken with my Kodak Easy Share M1073 IS digital point and shoot camera on July 21st, 2013.

Found at a Build-A-Bear store. Taken with my Kodak Easy Share M1073 IS digital point and shoot camera on August 10th, 2013.

The flight tower and one of the terminals at Lambert International Airport, located in St. Louis, Missouri. Taken with my Kodak Easy Share M1073 IS digital point and shoot camera on September 25th, 2013.

This used to be a bank a long time ago, now the building houses a beauty salon. Camera: Argus C3 "Brick" rangefinder (made in 1947) Lens: Argus Coated Cintar 50mm, f/3.5 Film: Fuji Neopan Acros 100, 35mm B&W Aperture: f/16 Shutter Speed: "B" (bulb) 25 seconds Date: April 19th, 2017, 11.45 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing chemicals: Presoak: 2 minutes Adox Adonal: 1+50 for 13 minutes Water rinse: 1 minute Ilford lfostop: 1 minute Water rinse: 1 minute Ilford Hypam Fixer: 10 minutes Water rinse: 4 minutes Kodak Photo-Flo: 1 minute Argus Acros 100 2017 12if

The day was cloudy and overcast as this storm front moved through. Camera: Agfa Agfamatic 126 camera Film: Kodak Gold 100 Date: April 8th, 1992 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Agfa Kodak Gold 100 24ef

Taken at a local Mexican restaurant where I was being treated to a birthday dinner. I used a Magicube attached on the Instamatic for the lighting. This shot was taken with my eighteenth camera, which I've had since the 1970s. The owner of the restaurant saw my Instamatic with the flashcube attached and came over and commented on it. He said he used to have one just like it back in the late 1970s. I said I did, too, and this was it. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 1 (Camerosity code YTSC - Period 09/71) Film: Agfa Photo Vista Plus 400 (35mm film reloaded into a 126 cartridge, expired on 10/2018) Shutter Speed: 1/45th of a second (1/90 without a flashcube attached) Aperture: f/11 Date: February 27th, 2023, 7.21 p.m. Location: Carmi, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 mins. and 40 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 Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Kodak X-15-1 Vista Plus 400 2023 24ef