HaarFager's photos

It rained so much on Friday that it was flooding. And then when the rain stopped, high winds came through. They were so strong, they blew someones trash cart into the middle of my neighbor’s yard. This was my eleventh camera. I picked it up at an estate auction. Come to find out, it was my trash cart that blew into my neighbor's yard. Camera: Kodak No. 2A Brownie Model B (made in 1916) Film: Fuji Film Neopan Acros 100 B&W (120 size) Aperture: F/16 (it has three different ones - f/8, f/11 and f/16) Shutter speed: “B” (bulb) ½ of a second Date: March 3rd, 2023, 3.12 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing chemicals at 68 degrees F Adox Adonal – 1 ½ hour stand development (1:150 – 2/3 tsp. 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 Kodak No. 2A Fuji Acros 100 2023 03ff

The start of the little lane across the street that goes around the houses that line the street where I live. It’s called Cardinal Drive. The reason the picture is crooked is because I used some cut-down 120 film and it's hard to tell in the dark when you're loading it if you got it straight or not. Taken with my eighty-seventh camera. Camera: PringCam 1.0 pinhole camera Film: Fuji Film Neopan Acros 100 120 size (expired) Pinhole size: .15mm Aperture: F/1747 Exposure length: 1 minute Date: May 19th, 2023, 1.52 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing chemicals @68 degrees: Adox Adonal: 1:50 – 20 minutes (2 tsp. of Adonal/500 ml. water) Water Rinse: 1 minute Ilford Ilfostop Stopbath: 1 minute Water Rinse: 1 minute Kodak Kodafix Fixer: 9 minutes Water Rinse: 1 minute PringCam Fuji Acros 100 2023 01gf

The view off the top step of my front porch. The image is not real sharp, maybe I made the pinhole too big – but I finally got a useable picture from this homemade pinhole camera! That’s what matters to me. Taken with my eighty-eighth camera. Camera: Quaker Corn Meal Box pinhole camera Film: Fuji Film Neopan Acros 100 120 size (expired 10/2019) Shutter Speed: “B” (bulb) 7 seconds Date: May 21st, 2023, 9.40 a.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing chemicals @68 degrees: Adox Adonal: 1:50 – 25 minutes (2 tsp. of Adonal/500 ml. water) Water Rinse: 1 minute Ilford Ilfostop Stopbath: 1 minute Water Rinse: 1 minute Kodak Kodafix Fixer: 9 minutes Water Rinse: 1 minute Quaker Pinhole Fuji Acros 100 2023 01ef

Since I don't kowtow to standard photography precepts, when I saw this cow statue being towed, I just naturally had to pull off into this rest stop to get a picture of it. I think it was somewhere in Tennessee. Taken on May 7th, 2016, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

This Beautification of America Issue stamp was issued to publicize President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Plant For A More Beautiful America” campaign. The campaign was inspired by First Lady Lady Bird Johnson’s conservation and beautification efforts. The stamp features an image of the Jefferson Memorial, the Tidal Basin and cherry blossoms in Washington, DC., and was issued on October 5th, 1966. I'm doing my part around my yard - planting trees and flowers. I wouldn't planting some of those cherry trees along the front edge of my lawn. They look so pretty when they're blooming in the Spring.

Back in 1997, my brother and I attended a Star Trek Convention held in Cape Girardeau, Missouri between July 25th and 27th at the Holiday Inn there. This is a screen capture from the videotape I recorded of the event. This particular sequence was taken by my brother because that's me in the open doorway of room 149. My brother and I were staying in the room to the right, room 151. But, the party was next door to us. You can't see my eyes because I've got my Wayfarers on.

I started taking pictures of the television screen back in the late 1970s of my favorite shows. Of course, Star Trek is one of my all time favorites. Using the multiple-exposure feature on my Minolta XD11, I would take multiple screenshots on one frame - kind of like my version of a Viewmaster reel. This particular episode was "The Doomsday Machine." This was at the end of the episode when Kirk and Spock were reviewing what just happened. The lab I was sending my film to to be developed always did this to the final frame of each roll. They would flash some kind of code, I suppose to identify who's film is was and then tape each roll end-to-end to be developed. This process usually ruined the last perfectly good frame on my rolls because, if you would work it right, you could get one extra shot on the roll past frame number 24. But the lab would always do this, ruining it. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 ASA 35mm Date: 1979 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta Kodacolor 100 Smokey And The Bandit 25ff

Some nice rock formations located in extreme Southern Illinois. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 ASA 35mm Date: 1979 Location: Southern Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF5035 Romayne’s Farm 18ff

These tracks were quite near where I used to live back in 1978. They were close enough for me to explore often Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 ASA 35mm Date: November 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF 5035 Kent's Ford 01lf

Toward the extreme southern end of Illinois, there are hills and mountains that start to rise above the flat farmland areas. Some of these places are quite unlike the rest of the state and are very scenic. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 ASA 35mm Date: 1979 Location: Southern Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF5035 Romayne's Farm 15eff

A misty sunset over the lowlands of Illinois. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor II 100 asa Shooting Program: Aperture Priority Date: 1979 Location: White County, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF5075 1979 Sunsets 18hf

A nice, serene cabin by a frozen lake in winter, located at Dolan's Lake, in Southern Illinois. These cabins can be rented and would make a lovely weekend getaway destination. Camera: Minolta SRT-101 Lens: Minolta MC W.Rokkor 28mm f/3.5 wide angle lens Film: Kodak Portra 160 35mm film Shooting Program: Manual Aperture: F/11 Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec. Date: January 3rd, 2013, 1.55 p.m. Location: McLeansboro, Illinois, U.S.A. SRT Portra 06ef

The Square, located at the heart of downtown Marion, Illinois. Camera: Minolta SRT-201 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Gold 100 (expired 08/2003, shot @ 25 ISO) Aperture: f/11 Shutter Speed: 1/60 Date: October 13th, 2020, 2.55 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 Kodak Photo Flo 200: 1 minute Minolta SRT201 Gold 100 Fall Tree 2020 06ff

This place was raized not long after I took this photo. Taken in January 2013 with my Sony Alpha a230 DSLR.

This was a Girl Scout troop I used to help with. I still have my shirt! Taken on September 9th, 2013, with my Sony Alpha a230 DSLR.

The water tower for my little town. Camera: Minolta SRT-201 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Gold 100 (expired 08/2003, shot @ 25 ISO) Aperture: f/11 Shutter Speed: 1/60 Date: October 17th, 2020, 11.04 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 Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature Water rinse: 2 minutes Kodak Photo Flo 200: 1 minute Minolta SRT201 Gold 100 Fall Tree 2020 25ef

A stone urn atop a grave marker. This cemetery is only about a mile from my house. Camera: Minolta X-7 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.7 Film: York 200 Color (long expired and shot @25 ISO) Shooting Program: Aperture Priority Aperture: f/8 Shutter Speed: 1/125 Date: May 6th, 2020, 5.04 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 Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Minolta X-7 York 200 2020 20jf

The countryside out and around Wayne County, Illinois Camera: Minolta XG-1 Film: Kodak Gold 200 ASA Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 45mm, f/2 Date: April 15th, 2006 Location: Fairfield, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta Gold 200 New Lenses 2006 02ef