Machine at Mill …
I do not know what type of mill, the negative envelope did not mention where this was taken. It could really be anywhere or any type of mill. The negative is extremely sharp and you can read all the numbers on the gauge and the lettering on the various parts of the machine. It is too bad that the internet cannot match the sharpness and let you read the writing, but you can see the texture of the wood and metal in the image. This image was run through the Lucis Art Filter. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
Son Motors …
Here is another image that I found in another ” Son Motors ” negative envelope. After cleaning it up in Photoshop, it looked good but nothing too interesting. So I ran it through a Lucis Art Filter to bring out all of the detail under the car, the brick wall, the attendant’s uniform and the equipment along the back wall. I think that it gives images like this a different look and feel and makes the image more interesting to look at. As usual, I have no clue who the man is. I have several more images that I have put this effect on that I am going to post in the near future, so please check back. Thanks for looking … Frank
Mount Rushmore II …
Here is one more of Mount Rushmore that I thought that I would post. It was made back in the early 1950’s when my father made the other that I posted some time ago. This one I left almost full frame and did not bother cropping out the people on the bottom left … I thought that they added some sense of scale to the photo. I also ran the file through the Lucis Art Filter to bring out the detail in the rock and the stone. The blueish color was added by me. No, I was not trying to make this resemble a cyanotype … I just like blue “cool” mono-colored images. I also did not bother taking out the lens flare in the top left corner. Thanks for looking and as usual, all comments are appreciated … And thanks for checking back … Frank
Pensacola Bay …
One more of my favorite photographs that I ran through the Lucis Art Filter. Note how intensified the sky becomes … I hope you enjoy. Thanks for looking … Frank
Son Motors Employees …
This is one of several Son Motors employees that I worked up recently. I ran across this filter … Lucis Art Filter … that I purchased years ago and just put it in my photoshop filters. I have always liked the look that you can achieve with it, it really brings out the detail in b&w images and does some strange things to color images. I did several other workers that I am still working on and I will post them when I finish them up. This is also the filter that I used in the above post of the inside of the chapel. Let me know what you think … thanks for looking … Frank
Chapel in the Old Sacred Heart Hospital …
This is still one of my favorite images from the old hospital. I ran it through a filter … Lucis Art Filter … and this filter really brings out the detail in images. Just look at the altar and all of the trim around the ceiling. Believe it or not, I can still remember this chapel in the old hospital. The room itself was not very large, maybe 15 x30 feet. I have several prints of this in the works right now … check back with me later and I will let you know how and where you can view them. If any of you remember this chapel in the old hospital, let us hear from you. Thanks for looking … Frank
Rodolfo Guglielmi Valentino …
You knew him as Rudolf Valentino … this is where he is enshrined at Forrest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles. I have had this negative laying around for a while and could not decide if I should post it or not, but I just figured why not? If it upsets anyone, I can always take it down. I wish that I some type of interesting story to accompany this image … give me some time and I will come up with something. Thanks for looking … Frank
Mad Men or Ad Men ?
I do not have a clue who either of these two guys are. I found the negatives in an envelope for Jarrard Motors, so I guess they were scarred of high car prices back in the 1950’s. I wish I could find the ad that these were used in …
I am at a loss for words, so I guess that I had better let these photos speak for themselves. Here is the last one from this series of photos … I guess that whatever the first guy did turned the situation around and now he is ready to pull out his wallet and spend his hard earned money …
Another satisfied customer … I do not know about you, but after looking at these photos, I just want to go out and buy something, anything to get this economy moving again. Who knows, you might see these photos in the presidential campaign for one of the candidates … either one, does not bother me, just as long as their check does not bounce! The only color I recognize is green. So Obama or Romney, does not bother me a bit … highest bidder gets to use these sure-fire vote getting photos in their campaign. I can be reached at 850-449-1279 … please no local politicos … these are too valuable for local politics. Thanks for looking … Frank
Pete Fountain …
Pete Fountain must have been in Pensacola giving a concert when this was made, so as usual, I do not have an exact date on this photo, but judging from how young they both look, it might have been made in the 1950’s. I have a photo I made years ago of Pete Fountain leading a parade down Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras back in the 1980’s over on my “Frank Hardy Photo Blog” site, if you are interested. I tried to create a link for it, but never could get it to work.
One more thing, I want to thank everyone at the Pensacola News Journal for the nice article that they wrote in this blog back on Sunday, August 19, 2012. Troy Moon wrote a very nice article and photo-journalist Katie King added some nice photographs. Here is a link to a gallery that the PNJ created of some photographs that I gave them for the article. I do not know if they have the actual article archived, but you can check. Thanks again for looking and commenting … Frank
Dunwoody Drive in 1959 …
I have the date as February 1959 on this photograph of Dunwoody Drive in Cordova Park. Not much to look at back then, but dirt and scrub oaks and pine trees. It is hard to remember back when it looked like this. Thanks for looking …
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