Words and pictures from Silicon Valley by Chris Gulker
Sweet spouse took time out of a full morning (even Sundays are busy for her) to run me to a local nursery, Roger Reynolds, that had lots of good-looking vegetable seedlings. Lemon cucumbers, 4 kinds of tomatoes 2 kinds of leaf lettuce, pole beans and mariigolds came home, and 4 of 8 boxes – half – the garden was planted. I’m so excited… if a bit tired from digging and planting…
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This is why I like Tri X. I snapped this photo of Richard Avedon (one of my photo heroes) on a bus bench in West Hollywood in the 70s. The image you see here is a scan from a contemporaneous 11×14-inch print, and it’s been through various digital manipulations to arrive on the blog: looking at the print is a better experience.
But the image above communicates some of the qualities that I love about Tri X: the grain, the gray ramp (a little hard to get right, given various browsers’ gamma et al.) the way detail pops. OK, OK, enough Tri X for a bit….
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