Big Bird of 1979 by taffy

Big Bird of 1979

For the past 2 weeks, I've been digitizing photo albums to create space on the shelves. Today I found a box from the late 1970s that included a two contact sheets and 2 b&w photos from a darkroom course I had taken as a way to relax while in grad school. It was kind of interesting to look back and see what I was focusing on back then. I did a bit of clean up in photoshop -- some lines that made no sense and a bunch of clutter on the beach.
What a neat b&w - you've been playing with these for a while! No wonder you're so very good at it. Love this.
June 26th, 2020  
Wow--spectacular shot! The best of 2 worlds, film shot and digital processing. Fav.
June 26th, 2020  
@milaniet If I could do my life over, I'd have liked to be a photojournalist, but once I finished grad school, I put photography aside for about 30 years. It's been fun to come back to it.
June 26th, 2020  
Very cool. It sure is fun (and humbling) to go back to the old days.
June 26th, 2020  
What a great pose!
June 26th, 2020  
Cool dancin' bird!
June 26th, 2020  
What a wonderful discovery! And I can see that your photographic style and taste in photo subjects continues today!
June 26th, 2020  
Great timing!
June 26th, 2020  
Fun photo of the waddling pelican. Your commentary reminded me that I was doing some b&w photography, developing film, and making prints in the 70s. Seems like a different lifetime.
June 26th, 2020  
Oh, that must be taking you forever to do that job, but what fun to rediscover all these treasures! Lovely image.
June 26th, 2020  
what a great one!
June 26th, 2020  
Super shot as he does his sand dance !!
June 26th, 2020  
Such a fun thing to rediscover these images. I have been looking at some older things too. Need a decent scanner though, I only have my printer and that isn't good enough quality for them. He's a lovely bird!
June 26th, 2020  
It can be a time consuming project - one I need to do.
June 26th, 2020  
What a great dancing pelican. Not the most graceful dancers though
June 26th, 2020  
Great capture
June 26th, 2020  
Love his pose. Cool shot.
June 26th, 2020  
He looks like he is doing a jig ! Nice
June 26th, 2020  
Outstanding capture, details :)
June 26th, 2020  
This looks like a Karate Kid pose.
June 26th, 2020  
You already had a great eye back then, beautiful capture
June 26th, 2020  
Great capture. Fav,!! 😀
June 26th, 2020  
Super capture, nice timing
June 26th, 2020  
Great capture
June 26th, 2020  
Super shot
June 26th, 2020  
I’m totally impressed with your clean up project and this is a great find
June 27th, 2020  
Great pose and lovely details.
June 27th, 2020  
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