A Little History...

Church Park First Congregational Church of Jackson Michigan

Dreamery

This first set of pictures I'm posting span about 10 years.  The earliest picture is from 2003, that one is the black and white photo of the First Congregational Church.  That particular one differs from most of these others in that it was a black and white film photograph.  It was, if i can remember correctly, 400 ASA Kodak T-Max film processed with Kodak D-76.  Dektol and the appropriate stop bath fixative wash were used for the paper processing.  The resulting print was a 5x7 glossy photo.  During the enlarging process a red filter may have been used to bring out the darker aspects of the image, i cannot remember but going by how it looks, i will assume that i did use a red filter.

Tower Hillcrest

The colour image of the sky is also a film photo but i don't remember much about the technical specs of it.  It was taken in 2002 going down the road by the local Jackson Airport on the way to the Meijer grocery store



Tower Hillcrest, also a film photograph, was taken at the local Hillcrest Cemetery back in 2002.  The tower was actually a memorial chapel but was abandoned for some reason that is unknown to me.  It still stands empty but the cross is boarded up.  It seems to attract an unusual amount of Boxelder bugs in the month of October of some years (strange random fact for ya there).  The following image, And the Crows Gathered is a digital manipulation of this photograph.  The brushes used for the crows in that picture are from a deviant art artist.  For that reason, i cannot sell or make money off of the digitally manipulated photo.

And the Crows Gathered

Incoming Storm

Incoming Storm is yet another colour film photograph from 2002.  The scene is quite possibly over Round Lake or Michigan Center Lake, it's been a while so it's difficult to remember.  The image was edited slightly using a program to brighten the colour of the clouds.

Sand or Snow

 Sand or Snow?  Can you tell which?  This photo was a black and white film image printed on matte black and white photo paper.  There are two unfortunate light burns on the left side that happened during the enlarging stage.  This is the only print of this photo and the negative has disappeared over the years.

Subdivision Sunset

Lastly, here we have a colour film photo of a sunset over my sister's apartment.  Taken in 2003.