Tomatoes and Vista of California's Coastal Mountains
Huron, California, July 2011
Dear readers, my apologies for being "gone" most of the summer. If this were any normal blog, I'd be updating it via my Blackberry, Droid, or iPhone. But, being the low-tech Luddite I am, I still do things the old-fashioned way -- on film.
I spent two weeks in the San Joaquin Valley of central California this summer, capturing the majestic vistas found there, farmers and farm laborers doing the backbreaking -- yet highly efficient -- work of putting food on America's and the world's dinner tables. The panoramic vistas I snapped on the Hasselblad X-Pan, and the grit, grime, and guts of the people bringing the harvest to market I shot on my trusty Nikon FM-3A. Instead of cards and memory sticks, I captured these images on Agfa's brilliant Optima II 100 film (see above) and Kodak Tri-X black and white 400 ASA.
It was worth the wait.
