Minolta Hi-Matic AF2 | Kodak Ultramax 400 | 38mm | f2.8
The Yellowstone River Overlook in Hayden Valley, Yellowstone National Park, WY.
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Sears KS-2 | Kodak Ultramax 400 | f2.8 | 125/s
Minolta Hi-Matic AF2 | Kodak Ultramax 400
Minolta Hi-Matic AF2 | Kodak Ultramax 400
Cliffs at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
Minolta Hi-Matic AF2 | Expired Kodak Gold 200
Nikon D40 | ISO 200 | 27mm | f5.6 | 1/400s
Nikon D40 ISO 400 | 82mm | f5.6 | 1/500s
28 Years ago, on a Friday afternoon in January of 1996, (Coincidentally sharing the exact dates to January of 2024), on the way from his home in St Helena, CA to visit his girlfriend in San Francisco, accomplished National Geographic photographer and former reporter-photographer for the Kansas City Star, Charles O’Rear, briefly stopped alongside California Highway 12 near the town of Schellville. Seeing a large green hill, stripped free of its usual grape vines due to a fungal infestation years prior, he took 4 photos with his Mamiya RZ67 using Fuji Velvia 120 film before packing up into his truck and continuing on his way, later naming the images “Bucolic Green Hills”. Later on in the year 2000, Microsoft purchased the rights to the photographs from him outright. Afterwhich, the photos were valued so highly (Charles had signed an NDA preventing him from revealing the exact amount he was given.) that carriers such as UPS and FEDEX refused to ship the negatives, causing Microsoft to buy him a plane ticket to bring the negatives to them himself. Microsoft would slightly increase the saturation of one of the images, renaming it “Bliss”, where it would become the brand image and main default wallpaper for their upcoming OS, Windows XP. Due to the overall success of Windows XP for over a decade to come, Bliss would become one of, if not, the most viewed photographs of all time. The hill has since been replanted and is once more covered with grape vines, though fans of the image still go to recreate the iconic photo. In a 2014 interview with Microsoft Netherlands, Charles half-jokingly stated that although he worked for NatGeo for 25 years, Bliss will likely be the picture for which he is most remembered. Happy 28th birthday to the legendary Bliss photo and a late Happy Birthday to Charles O’Rear.
Taken with a Canon Powershot A40. ISO 50 | f8.0 | 1/250s | 5.41mm
The film isn't quite that old but the camera is actually from 1981 lol
Oh no you're totally fine! At the moment since I'm new to film photography I'm just starting off with some kodak gold 200 since it's fairly cheap by film standards, I'll likely just use that until I feel more comfortable shooting film then once I'm confident enough with the medium move up to some nicer fujifilm, maybe superia 400.
I think it may be the level of "film grain", as well as a bit of glow around the buildings in the sky, both are a bit too high admittedly, I honestly just liked the look of the shot with the added grain and I've just started getting into photo editing so I'm still not too great at it. I probably should've put some sort of disclaimer in the description that it was edited rather than an actual film photo. I do have some old 35mm point and shoots and even an early 80s ricoh SLR I just got, but haven't gotten to use them quite just yet, my first film roll is supposed to come in in a few days so I should hopefully have some actual scanned film photos coming in a couple months or so.
More exposed to a very very amateur Lightroom user lol
Ah sorry, no deception intended lol just still getting used to lightroom for the time being.
I picked up photography back in May which just started by getting an old point and shoot digicam to take convincing liminal space photos, then I got another..... then another.... then some film old cameras, a cheap DSLR a set of lens, etc. Etc. It's become a full on addiction at this point lol
Actually it's at the Denver Botanic Gardens.
And just like that I have a pixelfed account lol Thanks mate!
I actually named it Bucolic as a nod to Windows XP! The original name of the Bliss wallpaper was "Bucolic Green Hills" before Microsoft bought it from the photographer.