Kodachrome

# 001 / '09

We were lost in a country road just before sunset near Cannonville, Utah towards Kodachrome Basin, but with some spectacular and amazing views of this colorful landscape. I stopped the car and took this photo, knowing that after a few minutes the vivid colors could fade away.

This color and contrast prompted the National Geographic Society in 1949, with consent from Kodak Film Corp., to name the park Kodachrome.

I used mainly Kodachrome 25 film for slides, with my old cameras and have some excellent vivid color photos that no other film could achieve. But of course those days are history. This is taken with a digital camera

 

Kodachrome by Paul Simon (Live)

 

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school

It's a wonder I can think at all

And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none

I can read the writing on the wall

 

Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors

Gives us the greens of summers

Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!

I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph

So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away

 

If you took all the girls I knew when I was single

And brought 'em all together for one night

I know they'd never match my sweet imagination

And everything looks worse in black and white

 

Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors

Gives us the greens of summers

Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!

I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph

So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away

 

 

(A photo from my book "Utah & Arizona")

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