HaarFager's photos

These are some apple seeds I picked out and tried to grow. Taken on April 8th, 2016, with my Kodak Easy Share M1073 IS.

A closeup of one of the strawberries I grew one year. It looks tasty. Taken on May 14th, 2017, with my Kodak Easy Share M1073 IS.

This cup shelf is built right into the wall of my kitchen. Taken on April 27th, 2023 with my Samsung L100 point and shoot digital camera.

I had a good crop of tomatoes this year! Taken on August 11th, 2015 with my Samsung L100 point and shoot digital camera.

This was a detail of a western-themed painting done on black velvet. Taken with my Kodak Easy Share M1073 IS digital point and shoot camera on December 9th, 2012.

Some chocolate chip pancakes I made. Taken with my Kodak Easy Share M1073 IS digital point and shoot camera on December 9th, 2012.

This bare tree, shining in the sunlight, (it was actually much brighter out than it looks like here), reminded me of the one in the final Lord Of The Rings movie, “The Return Of The King.” This was another camera in my collection that I didn’t think I would ever be able to use. Kodak stopped making film for it in the mid-1980s, and the special “J” battery they used is also no longer made. But I did have an old, empty cartridge that I loaded with some 120 film and managed to get it to take a picture. Without the battery, the shutter only had one speed and it was much too fast for the 400 speed film I used. The original film had an ASA rating of 150, so 400 should have been plenty enough speed, but it wasn’t. The camera really needs the battery so that it can set the right shutter speed. One thing I haven’t tried is to push some 400 speed film to 800 or 1600 and see if that works better. The negative for this image came out almost blank, it was so faint. By having to darken it up so much, it came out much too grainy. It looks like a picture from the 1800s! But I did get the camera to produce an actual image. Camera: Kodak Handle No. 3 Film: Foma Fomapan 400 B&W, cut down 120 (expired 04/2015) Date: June 29th, 2023, 12.54 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing chemicals at 68 degrees F Adox Adonal – 11 minutes (1:50 – 2 tsps. of Adonal and 500 ml. of water) Water rinse – 1 minute (to keep the chemicals clean) Ilford Ilfostop stopbath - 1 minute Water rinse - 1 minute Kodak Kodafix fixer - 9 minutes Water rinse – 1 minute Kodak Handle-3 Foma 400 2023 01if

Lego sculptures at the Children's Museum, located in St. Louis, Missouri. Camera: Keystone Easy Shot Focus Free 35mm Film: Kodak Gold 200 ASA Date: January 4th, 2013, 12.14 p.m. Location: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Keystone Easy Shot 08ef

A Harley-Davidson sticker on the back of my motorhome. Riding motorcycles could also be like the R.V. life and motoring along the open roads. They don’t make film for these cameras any more, and I never shot with one in the first place. So, I have no idea what kind of film it was or what it looked like, or whether it came in a cartridge or pack. I built up the edge of the film plane a little bit by cutting some thin strips of cardboard to glue along where the “negative” area was. I’m pretty sure that, since it was an instant film camera, the film didn’t rest right on those ridges. Most likely a little way off them to achieve the right focus. I used two thinknesses of cardboard on both the top and bottom where the negative sat, but I should have used only one thickness on each side, because the focus is off. The area where the film rides was also slightly smaller than the height of the film gate, so I had to trim a little of the film to get it to fit inside the camera. I ended up cutting through the sprocket holes on one side to get it to fit. But, I got it to produce a picture. Camera: Polaroid I-Zone (introduced in 1999) Film: Fuji Film Neopan Acros 100 B&W (expired 10/2019) Aperture: f/12.5 (Outside Cloudy) Shutter Speed: 1/125th of a second Date: May 31st, 2023, 3.12 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing chemicals @68 degrees: 2 minute presoak Adox Adonal 1+150 (500ml water, 2/3 tsp. of Adox Adonal) for 1 hour and 30 minutes Water rinse: 1 minute Ilford lfostop, 15 second agitation, 45 second stand Water rinse: 1 minute Kodak Kodafix Fixer: 9 minutes Water rinse: 1 minute Polaroid I-Zone Fuji Acros 100 2023 01if

This is the reservoir for my town. People can fish, camp and have picnics here - it's a pretty scenic little place Camera: Bell+Howell BF35 Film: Fuji Film 200 Date: June 11th, 2016, 3.00 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. B+H Fuji 200 20ef

A still life on my dining room table featuring a pineapple, banana and bell pepper. I didn’t want to get too close, because who knows how close a trashcam like this can focus? Camera: Imatic LT-002 Lens: New Optical Lens, 50mm, f/5.6 Film: Super G VX400 (expired, rebranded Konica VX400) Flash: Asahi Pentax AF-16 Aperture: f/16 Shutter Speed: Approx. 1/60 Date: December 5th, 2017, 10.59 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: 1 minute (to keep chemicals clean) Blix: 6 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 3 minutes at approx. 100 degrees Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature Water rinse: 2 minute Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Imatic Super G VX400 01hf

Taken at the Fairfield Pumpkin Fest, held on October 13th, 2012. There were pumpkins everywhere! Camera: Kodak Easy Load 35 KE25 Film: Kodak Ultramax 400 35mm Focus: Fixed Date: October 13th, 2012, 12.49 p.m. Location: Fairfield, Illinois, U.S.A. Kodak EL-35 Ultra Max 400 06gf

This historical marker details about the man who founded Eldorado, Illinois. It was almost impossible to get to use this camera. Film is no longer made for it by anyone and nobody even makes the special "J" battery it takes. But I said almost impossible. I happened to have an old, empty instant film cartridge these used and was able to put some cut-down 120 film into it and get it to work. The things we photographers have to do sometimes! Camera: Kodak Handle No. 2 Film: Holga 400 B&W, cut down 120 (expired 02/2018) Date: May 2nd, 2023, 1.15 p.m. Location: Eldorado, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing chemicals at 68 degrees F Adox Adonal – 11 minutes (1:50 – 2 tsps. of Adonal and 500 ml. of water) Water rinse – 1 minute (to keep the chemicals clean) Ilford Ilfostop stopbath - 1 minute Water rinse - 1 minute Kodak Kodafix fixer - 9 minute Water rinse – 1 minute Handle-2 Holga 400 2023 01ef

We’ve had a new business open up recently and it’s a coffee house in the heart of the downtown area. What’s notable about it, at least for me, is that they’ve licensed some of my photography for use in their decor. That was nice of them. This is the first time I’ve ran some color film through my Jiffy Kodak II. It originally took 620 film, but I loaded some 120 to feed onto an original 620 take-up spool and it worked. Camera: Jiffy Kodak Series II 620 belows camera (circa 1937) Film: Kodak New Portra 160 (expired 07/14) Lens: Twindar lens Aperture: largest of two settings Shutter speed: 1/25th sec. (approx.) Date: May 19th, 2023, 2.06 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 Jiffy New Portra 160 2023 04ef

I accidentally snapped this image inside my house, and since I had cut down a single negative and put in the camera, that's the only shot I got. It's my tomato plant in front of my library window Taken on May 17th, 2023 with a Fuji Film QuickSnap one-time-use camera, with Fuji Neopan Acros 100 black and white film. Fuji Quicksnap-2 Acros 100 2023 01ff

The clown mascot at a certain fast food restaurant. Camera: Flocon RF 222 (Diana clone) Film: Kodak Portra-160VC 120 film Aperture: F/11 Focus distance: 6 ft. to 12 ft. Shutter speed: Approximately 1/50th sec. Date: November 8th, 2010, 2.40 p.m. Location: Carmi, Illinois, U.S.A. Flocon 02df

Vines or something like that climbing up the side of my chimney. Camera: Pentax PC-330 Lens: Pentax 26mm Film: Fuji Film Neopan Acros 100 ASA 35mm (expired 10/2019) Date: April 24th, 2023, 10.36 a.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing chemicals at 68 degrees F Adox Adonal – 20 minutes (1:50 – 2 tsps. of Adonal and 500 ml of water) Water rinse – 1 minute (to keep the chemicals clean) Ilford Ilfostop stopbath - 1 minute Water rinse - 1 minute Kodak Kodafix fixer - 9 minute Water rinse – 1 minute Pentax PC-330 Acros 100 2023 02ff

These are some members of my church who helped out at the Evansville Homeless Shelter in December 2015. Camera: Pentax K1000 Lens: SMC Pentax-A 28mm, f2.8 wide angle lens Film: Super G 400 (rebranded Konica VX400) Aperture: F/2.8 Shutter speed: 1/30th sec. Date: December 19th, 2015, 3.01 p.m. Location: Evansville, Indiana, U.S.A. K1000 Super G 15ef