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August 13, 2012
Two weeks ago in blog #19, I had a story about myself and the band Queen with some color photographs that I took on March 7, 1975. The response was wonderful from all of you and I appreciate the comments as always. It made me dig into the archives a little further to find the black and white images from that show for you to enjoy.
We are spoiled in the digital world as a photographer in that we can switch from color to black and white very easily. In 1975 you had to switch rolls of film!!!!!!!!!! In digital, we can also change the ISO or film speed quickly and from photo to photo. Wow, would that have been nice in 1975 because we were all using push processing on our film to get a faster ISO or as we called it back then, ASA. I had to do special things in the darkroom in the old days and it was fun but you did not know what you were going to get right away like we do now. It took a while to see what you photographed in the old days.
I miss the smell of fixer and stop bath in the darkroom and it was like being a magician sometimes. The darkroom was a fun place to play and work with film, paper and chemicals. Black and white versus color is like digital versus film. They both work but are very different and people still argue over film being better and color being better than black and white.
What do you think and which do you like better, film versus digital or color over black and white? It is a very personal choice I think and it will be interesting to see what you think.
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August 6, 2012
The week of August 26, 1973 I was thinking of college and my pursuit of an associate degree in photography at MATC. Before school would begin, I thought a nice break was in order.
Friends were camping at the Jaycee campground close to Elkhart Lake's Road America that weekend and invited me to come and bring a tent and any high powered stereo gear I had since they had an audio power competition I believe you would call it. I owned a Phase Linear 400 watt power amplifier and that is the real reason I was invited! My Phase Linear had been tweaked and could put out about 500 watts of power, 250 a channel and it rocked. It produced very LOUD, clear sound and I believe we won the competition pairing it with my McIntosh C26 Pre amp and a friend's HUGE Klipshorn speakers!
This was also the time for the Can-Am at Elkhart Lake's Road America. Seeing and hearing Mark Donahue in the "Monster" Porsche 917-30 was amazing. That car was so beautiful and had so much power with Mark driving. No one had a chance unless it broke down, which it did not, and he won. The black Shadow cars were also one of the other wonderful sights to see that weekend.
After that break I was ready for college!
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July 30, 2012
In 1971, Queen, one of the world's greatest rock'n'roll bands was formed. Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon traveled the world extensively touring through the years.
On March 7, 1975, I had the pleasure of photographing Queen at the Uptown Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The night before they played Chicago and the night after Milwaukee they played Madison, Wisconsin heading west.
For me it was a very memorable show. I was photographing from the orchestra pit in front of the stage which was filled with equipment cases from the band. During one of the songs they used a fog machine to fog the stage. The orchestra pit and the front of the stage were filled with fog. It was beautiful and I tried to get the perfect shot by moving over to the left a little on my knees. I proceded to fall about 4 feet down off of an equipment case going off the edge of the case! I was fine, the camera was fine and no one saw a thing because of the fog! It was worth it too because the shot was exactly what I was trying to get.
I just got back up and kept on photographing like nothing happened and I will never forget that incident.
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