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A Chevron Gas Station in Eldorado Canyon Ghost Town. Located off Route 165 in Nelson NV. Some late night photography with a mini-maglite under a bright moon. A 3 shot HDR image for more detail in the shadows.
It was a long time since I did any HDR photography. So with this shot, I needed a longer exposure than 30 seconds to get the light painting in because the camera was farther from the subjects. Thus, rather than the traditional exposure blend of 3 various exposures, I did 3 exposures with different parts of the scene light painted. One for the light painting on the ground and pumps. One for the blue lights building, and the last one for the red filter and inside the building.
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The Rockin' 1940s when rock music meant pounding two rocks together.
(John, Scott & Donny, August 1945)
1940s style
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Haworth Village comes alive when the 1940s comes to the Worth Valley. Tens of thousands of people throng the village, many in ’40s civilian and forces dress.
I was taking a pic of a WW2 Hurricane flying over the town (on my iphone - as the camera is being repaired !) and luckily I liked this effect.
(The Hurricane is the little 'smudge' bottom right !)
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At the Severn Valley Railway, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 7th June 2025.
About the photograph.
They are re-enactors dressed up in 1940s kind of clothes, and runs what appears to be a 1940s style shop.
Back in those days, shops were not really self-service, and in order to do the shopping, customers would have to tell the staff what they want.
As you can see, most of the food is found on the shelves behind them, which is why staff often have to fetch what you want, then ring up the costs.
They were chatting with visitors whom are interested in learning what shops of this era was like, and apparently someone must’ve said something funny, hence the shop girls having a laugher, and that was when I caught the monment.
I originally thought about turning it into black and white, but figured for the moment, leave it in colour so you, the viewers, could see what the 1940s packaging colours are like.
Notice the box of KitKat chocolates in the lower left corner of the photo, is in blue coloured wrapper.
That was because of milk shortages during the Second World War, so KitKat switched from milk chocolate to dark chocolate, and thus the packaging switched colours to remind customers of the switch in recipe. The red packaging returned in 1947 as they switched back to milk chocolate recipe.
About Severn Valley Railway.
The Severn Valley Railway is a 16 miles single track heritage railway line in Worcestershire and Shropshire, between the towns of Kidderminster and Bridgnorth. The railway line follows the course of the River Severn along the Severn Valley.
The train services are often hauled by a mix of vintage steam locomotives, and classic diesel locomotives, usually pulling resorted heritage carriages.
The Severn Valley Railway often holds special events during some weekends, and the Step Back to the 1940s event is one of the many events.
Part of my 1940s project depicting a young RAF pilot. Gravity Backdrops canvas behind and lit with Elinchrom ELB 500 Pro HD and Elinchrom Rotalux 100cm / 39" Deep Octa camera left and California Sunbounce (silver) camera right.
Flickr Friday: Nostalgia
This mid-1940s (according to Google) Ronson Standard lighter belonged to my grandfather. It still works almost a century later and is something to remember him by.
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The Sanderson Camera. C.H & S. LONDON.
Sanderson Cameras
Sanderson cameras, both field and 'Hand and Stand' forms, are based on F.H. Sanderson’s patent of 1895. This describes how the lens board is held between two pairs of slotted struts, a screwed bolt, connected to the lens board, passes between the slots to clamp the lens board to the struts. When unclamped the lens board is free to move vertically, tilt and move forward or backwards. This allowed the photographer to roughly focus and compose the subject, then with the struts unclamped a single movement would move the lens board to critical focus and bring the rising front into play. On later models there would be pre-set catches to set the front standard in a vertical position.
The second aim of the Universal Swing Front was to allow the camera baseboard and therefore the tripod to remain level and do away with the necessity of tilting the camera and tilting the back. When taking subjects such as buildings a problem would be the amount of foreground shown on the screen, to overcome this the photographer would tilt the camera up, this will introduce converging verticals which was remedied by tilting the back so that it was vertical. In Sanderson’s design the camera bed is kept level and the lens is raised, for which there is ample rising front available, and tilted as required. A test took place in Cambridge in 1897, the results were widely reported in the photographic press and substantiate Sanderson’s claim for his camera over the use of tilting back models.
Frederick Herbert Sanderson was born in Cambridge in 1856, he worked as a cabinet maker and wood and stone carver. As a photographer he specialised in architectural subjects, not finding a suitable camera for his purposes led him to design the Universal Swing Front which is the basis of the Sanderson camera. He died in July 1929.
The cameras were sold by Houghton and made by Holmes Brothers of Islington who, at the time, were associated with G. Houghton & Son and later (1904) formed part of Houghtons Ltd.