HaarFager's photos

This spider was building a web this morning just off the front of my porch. Taken on October 2nd, 2025, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

Sunset behind a producing oil well. I’ve moved since this picture was taken and this well is only about a mile from my house now. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Gold 100 Date: June 17th, 1992 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta XD11 Gold100 Graduation 1992 25ff

This was taken on a hike back in 2000. It was my sister, her son and daughter and a friend of her daughter’s. And of course me. Camera: Polaroid 200 Bf Film: Kodak Gold 100 ASA 35mm color film Date: October 2000 Location: Dolan’s Lake, Hamilton County, Illinois, U.S.A. Polaroid 200 Bf 2000-2 Kodak Gold 100-6 17hf

This was a game at the birthday party of my ex-girlfriend's daughter. Kids just love "Pin The Tail On The Donkey." Taken on July 7th, 2003, with an HP Photosmart 720 digital point and shoot camera.

This is a brand of film I found on eBay. I'm pretty sure it's a vanity film and that it's really Fuji Film 200.

An old abandoned oil well out in the country around Enfield, Illinois. I converted the color negative to black and white. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor VR 100 Date: March 1986 Location: White County, Illinois, U.S.A. XD11 Kodacolor VR 100 Easter 1986 06of

Apparently, I've only shot one roll of Kodak Vericolor II film. And that was back in 1978.

A streetlight in downtown Carmi, Illinois. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Vivitar Macro Focusing Zoom 28-210mm, f/3.5 Film: Kodak Gold 400 Exposure mode: Manual (O) Shutter speed: 1/100 Date: July 2nd, 2009 Location: Carmi, Illinois, U.S.A. XD11 Kodak Gold 400 2009 13gff

On a country drive I took this past Sunday, I spotted a Black Swallowtail butterfly on these wildflowers. The butterfly is hard to see, but it's on the white flower toward the middle of the frame This film expired 26 years ago and there seemed to be some color shift. Adobe Photoshop seemed to help that problem. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC No. 1 Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm, f/1.7 Film: Polaroid One Film 200 (expired on 7/99) Program: Manual (no battery) Aperture: f/11 Shutter Speed: 1/30th of a sec. Date: September 7th, 2025, 1.56 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 06gf

One of those underground pipe markers. This film expired 26 years ago and there seemed to be some color shift. Adobe Photoshop seemed to help that problem. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC No. 1 Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm, f/1.7 Film: Polaroid One Film 200 (expired on 7/99) Program: Manual (no battery) Aperture: f/11 Shutter Speed: 1/60th of a sec. Date: September 7th, 2025, 2.43 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 14hff

There were three old trucks abandoned at this location and it looked like somebody had removed all the seats from them. And somebody dropped off an old love seat there as well. This film expired 26 years ago and there seemed to be some color shift. But I was able to fix it somewhat. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC No. 1 Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm, f/1.7 Film: Polaroid One Film 200 (expired on 7/99) Program: Manual (no battery) Aperture: f/11 Shutter Speed: 1/60th of a sec. Date: September 7th, 2025, 1.37 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 04hf

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) 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