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The Army Navy Store Road is seven miles long and was named after Thompson’s Army Navy Store that used to be located there over 40 years ago. The surplus store is no longer there, but the road still retains that name. I shot an entire roll of film along it’s length yesterday and this was the first shot of the journey. Just a couple miles from my home in Norris City, Illinois, which is in White County, it becomes Hamilton County, where this road is located. This film expired 26 years ago and there seemed to be some color shift. The one button fix in the Adobe Photoshop program I used made it look better. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC No. 1 Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm, f/1.7 Film: Polaroid One Film 200 (expired on 7/99 and shot @25 ASA) Program: Manual (no battery) Aperture: f/11 Shutter Speed: 1/60th of a sec. Date: September 7th, 2025, 1.19 p.m. Location: Hamilton County, 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 Polaroid One Army-Navy 0if

A box of Kodak film that came with an inexpensive point and shoot 35mm camera I found. The film is made in the United States. The film is spooled in Mexico. The film is repacked in China. Boy, this film was a world traveller, for sure!

The television show "Star Trek" lasted three seasons from 1966 -1969; then it was cancelled. But, there was something about the show that appealed to viewers and it just wouldn't die. About the mid-1970s, it was becoming more and more popular and there were even conventions being held for everything Star Trek. I watched the show back in the 1960s, so by the mid-1970s, even I could tell there was something special about the show, even located like I was in a small town in Southern Illinois. A local television station out of Evansville, Indiana would broadcast repeats of Star Trek every Sunday night at midnight. (Technically, Monday morning.) For me, who was still in school, it would be the last thing I enjoyed each weekend before school started again on Monday. I watched these repeats faithfully and even recorded the audio of the episodes on cassette tape and took pictures of the TV screen. This is one such picture I captured in 1977. All this attention for the show finally culminated with the big screen return of Star Trek - "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." The whole Star Trek phenomenon has become engrained in our culture. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 126 film camera Film: Kodak B&W 126 film Shutter Speed: 1/45 of a second Aperture: f/11 Date: 1977 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Star Trek 126 B&W 08-2ff

A basketball game I covered as photographer of my school's yearbook. This was the high school varsity team for the 1977/1978 school year. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor II 100 Date: Late 1977 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica KSF 5075 NCO Vs Cairo 1978 0ff

This was the varsity basketball team for the Norris City Omaha High School 1978-1979 basketball season. It was a series of shots I took of the varsity, junior varsity and freshman basketball teams, plus the varsity and junior varsity cheerleading squads for inclusion in our senior yearbook. For some reason they weren't used. I think because some players were sick and couldn't be in my picture. They took some more later. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor II 100 ASA Shooting Program: Aperture Priority Date: January 1979 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF 5075 1979 07ff

The constellation known colloquially as "The Big Dipper," photographed in 1978. I have been looking for this negative for about 15 years because I thought it was lost, but finally found it today. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Konica Hexanon 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor, 100 ASA 35mm Date: June 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica KSF 5035 Yard 1978 09ef

Some clouds from back in 1978. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 35mm Date: October 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica KSF5035 Country Drive 01gf

This is the capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 Date: April 26th, 1978 Location: Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica Springfield KSF 5035 24ff

Sunset behind my house back in 1978. Looks like a storm was moving in. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 Date: 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica Springfield KSF 5035 01-2gf

This Fuji film was part of a lot of various films I bought off a "popular online auction site." There were several rolls of various Fuji films, but I mainly bought them because it had three rolls of Polaroid film - which I shot a couple rolls of back in the 1980s.

This is a frame I scanned from a roll of found film I acquired in a Canon Sure Shot TeleMax 35mm point and shoot camera I added to my camera collection. Most of the shots were already taken, but I took the last five frames myself. Whoever this woman is sunning herself, I have no clue. The camera came from a resale shop and at some point in time, someone had opened the back and slightly flashed the film - that's probably why it's so grainy. Whoever it belonged to first took some vacation shots like this on the beach and two different Christmas gatherings on the roll. And then they got rid of the camera before finishing the roll or getting their film out! I wonder how that happens? Whoever you are - your pictures are ready! 92470024 1b Canon TeleMax2 Fuji Super HQ 200 25

Go woke - go broke. Cracker Barrel is finding that out.

Some of the films I have and have used before. Film is so great, it almost makes me want to break out in song....

Nearly 50 years ago, this building in Harrisburg, Illinois housed the photography studio of Roy Small. It was through him I took my first photography class in 1978. It was a non-credited college course while I was 17 and still in high school, and it was held here in his studio. Two years after I attended his class, he became the general manager of the local newspaper "The Daily Register." Roy died in 2012. Taken on August 19th, 2025, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR. I was going to post a film image of this building, but the film I used was so expired, it didn't turn out good enough to post. Hence I used the digital "backup" version of the same subject for my submission on World Photography Day.

Back while I was still a senior in high school, I took a non-credited college course on photography. It was held in the nearby town of Harrisburg, Illinois and taught by a local photographer there named Roy Small. This is a picture of some of my fellow classmates before class started. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm, f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 Program: Manual (no battery) Date: circa August 1978 Location: Harrisburg, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica 5035 Laurie 19ef

This was my girlfriend at the time, Susan, posing for me at our town's park, with the local reservoir behind her. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Tri-X, 400 ASA black and white film Shooting Program: Aperture Priority Date: September 1980 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta XD11 Kodak Tri-X Susan 1980 18ef

Dedicated to Governor Pritzker, our 400 pound Albatross here in the State of Illinois. Taken on September 17th, 2021, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.