Farmhouse

Excellent 60's "Kodachrome" effect!

Oh, is that what it is? I thought it looked familiar! Thanks, Don.

Turns out I was probably wrong, it reminded of the overall yellow/washed out colors you would get on Kodak Instamatics, but they did square photos. I was assuming this was a scan of older photo, but I see its a newer photo. Was the effect intentional, or did I insult you :)

Oh, of course you didn't insult me - that's pretty hard to do! It was "intentional vintage-izing" and I just didn't know what era it might be. (I forgot about the square Instamatic photos. I had one of those for a long time, it was kind of the one to have for the casual picture-taker, as I recall.)

Swinging off that last sentence -- when did you start becoming a serious photographer?

For myself it was when digital became fairly good quality AND there were good digital editors. I am surprised at the accidental quality of some my older film photos, but I'm not good at keeping track of negatives, so those older photos have become largely useless.

In 2008, when I moved back to Klamath Falls after 46 years in the Bay Area. It became my therapy (which I didn't know at first) in order to search for some way I could stand living here. I had no room to paint, still don't, so camera it is.

Oh yes, my film photos are a mess, I had no idea how to SEE things through a camera. Negatives? Ha! I threw out a lot of them, but they aren't worth anything, anyway. I have loads of prints, but they're completely disorganized and, again, pretty useless. I would like to find my photos of Kenya and Senegal, though I didn't shoot many. Those were the days when I simply looked at what was in front of me - imagine!

You've done well with the therapy! Re the film past, sounds like we're at about the same level on most photos. Fortunately I kept all of my slides from when I was in the military, so that worked out well. But there's piles of poorly managed photos from other times/places.

Great composition...............and beautiful processing. I especially like the contrast between the tall and thin and short and fat trees.