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Went out to the Sunset Music Festival in Leawood, KS Thursday evening and was treated to an awesome performance by Casi Joy...former contestant on "The Voice." It is hard to describe what genre she fits in, mostly country I'd say, but she can do it all...the finale of her set was a rousing rendition of the classic Boston tune "More Than A Feeling." Captured with my Canon F1N using a 135mm 1:2.8 lens, on Foma 400 film.
Girls with guitars
(Daddy's little angel)
Girls with guitars
(What's the world coming to)
Girls with guitars
(Mothers tend to worry about)
Girls with guitars...
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Seems every band these days is just another cover band and The Mystic in Petaluma seems to be their hall of fame...I just can't justify spending that much money for a cover band...Want to impress me, write your own songs...
SCHMIED´S PULS vom hoerthoert-Festival - live aus dem Jazzit Musik Club - vom 20.03.2015 - weitere Fotos unter:
www.jazzfoto.at/konzertfotos15/hoerthoert_festival/schmie...
Besetzung:
Mira Lu Kovacs: vocals, guitar
Walter Singer: doublebass
Christian Grobauer: drums
UPDATE - 12-19-2025: I received some sad news last month. The young lady in the photo, passed away a month ago.
Her name is Randie Jeanne Calton -- or, Randi Jeanne Calton Pray, as Pray was her married name.
I received the news from her daughter-in-law, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. Randie died from Alzheimer's. She was 69 years old.
I am in the process of redoing this photo and every other one featuring Randie Jeanne for a special memorial service, to be held in Springfield in late January, close to what would have been her 70th birthday.
I will be going back to the original scans and make TIFF files on Lightroom. They will be printed and put on display at the memorial service. So I need to get cracking on these photos ASAP.
I was sent a link to Randie's online obituary. I believe her daughter-in-law cropped this photo to use only the image of Randie playing the guitar for that obituary. This is the way the family wanted to remember her: young, pretty, and doing the work she loved best, which was playing guitar and singing.
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I recently had another old roll of Eastman Kodak 5247 motion picture negative scanned to digital, and I have only gotten maybe half the roll run through Photoshop to "fix" some of the problems that often come from a digital scan of film, especially negative. There is another roll that was scanned, but I haven't had the chance to download them into the computer for Photoshop. So these shot-on-film photos will be scattered throughout my photostream over the course of several weeks.
That said, this is the very first roll of 5247 that I ever shot. The slides that were struck from them looked good originally (almost 39 years ago), but they have faded to the point of being magenta, such was the poor quality of the Eastman Kodak film print stock -- a way of keeping costs down when making both workprints and release prints. Unfortunately, with the passage of time, the cost-cutting efforts by Eastman Kodak caught up with them.
Among the subjects I shot with this first roll was a Sunday trip to Silver Dollar City, down in Branson, Missouri, south of Springfield. Silver Dollar City, originally a western-themed park/tourist attraction, is now something of the Las Vegas of the Ozarks, with bumper-to-bumper traffic on the narrow two-lane highway, with tons of western-themed theaters and nightclubs, showcasing such talents as Ray Stevens and Andy Williams -- when neither Vegas nor Atlantic City wanted them.
But in 1978, Silver Dollar City, though growing at this time from its more simple concept of the 1960s, was still home to many musicians who were known only to their loyal fan base. Recording an LP for public purchase was not often done, due to the costs of recording in those days, unlike musicians who can easily record and burn CDs today.
This group is named The Calton Family Bluegrass Band; they were among those who hit the road and performed at venues such as this one. Here they are performing inside a small gazebo. I cannot recall what they were performing, except I believe it was along the lines of the traditional country-western bluegrass music popular in that part of the country. I have a wider shot, using my 50mm lens, showing the gazebo itself, but I will post that later. I wanted to post this one first.
I didn't get that close with my camera, using my 200mm lens to be more discreet. But, apparently, I nevertheless caught the attention of the pretty brunette playing guitar (and she also had a nice voice -- more on that in a future post). I'm not sure why she singled me out; I thought there were other people with cameras getting shots like this, but it has been so long that I could be wrong about it.
I cropped the photo to remove the white posts of the gazebo, which were more of a distraction than anything, and tried to focus (so to speak) on the musicians. The one on the bass fiddle with the hair down her back did eventually turn around for me to get a photo of her. That too will come later.
I had a difficult time color correcting the negative. I don't know if it had to do with the age of the film, or because the film was so super-sensitive to colors that the green (from the trees all around) seemed to throw a reflection on everything -- something I didn't see when I got the slides back (with the negatives) from RGB Labs. I need to get my own scanner, once I have room to set it up. I'm not sure if the scanning was done badly or if, as I said before, the negative is aged. I've seen better results of scanning of my negatives (the motion picture stock) in the past, so until I can get a scanner of my own and re-try this roll, I am not sure why the colors and details came out the way they did.
This was shot on 35mm Eastman Kodak Motion Picture Stock 5247, ASA 100. I used a Vivitar 400 S/L camera, and a Vivitar 200mm lens. I also used a Vivitar No. 85 filter, to correct the film from tungsten to daylight.