Kent Shafer

<p>This is Curtis, a beagle who was found a few years back wandering a country road, lost and starving. He now has a happy home and a full-time job. He works at his owner's business, where he is in charge of greeting customers and delivery people and general morale building.</p><div></div>

<p>Here's a jokey picture of my friend's 1964 Dart, also made with the Yashica Mat. We were trying to emulate the "Rat Fink" cartoons popular at the time, hence the gigantic floor-shift lever.</p><div></div>

<p>Regarding the Dart, after your interesting comments, a little online research, and personal memory jogging, I realize that the "270" emblem on the hood represented the trim package (better than the base 170 but not as cool as the premium GT) and, of course, not the engine displacement. I'm pretty sure our car had the 225 cubic inch slant six, which Wikipedia says was a $50 option over the base 170 cid engine.</p><div></div>

<p>Another view. Our neighbor had some interesting cars, too.</p><div></div>

<p>This is our family's brand, shiny new 1963 Dodge Dart convertible, with the 270 cubic-inch slant six engine and pushbutton automatic transmission. It's the car I learned to drive in.</p>

<p>Shot with Yashica Mat LM on Ektachrome, home processed (I believe it would have been E-2 at that time), and trimmed down to superslide size because we liked to project slides. I remember having an empty superslide readymount that I dropped onto the ground glass when shooting slide film.</p>

<p>Scanned with Nikon 9000 with 35mm slide holder, resulting in a further crop.</p><div></div>

<p>Alien? I don't know. You tell me.</p><div></div>

<p>I enjoy always enjoy these. Thank you, Marc!</p>

<p>Probably vanilla, Donald. We were simple folk.</p>

<p>Recently I've been scanning some of my oldest pictures. This is my dad at age 39. He's 93 now and still going strong. (Where did all that time go?)</p><div></div>

<p>As a kid, I too used Anscochrome for economy. You could buy the processing chemicals in 16 oz. kits while Ektachrome chemicals only came in 32 oz.</p>

<p>Then one day I was in some small town, needed film, and the only store only sold Kodachrome, so I splurged and tried a roll. OMG, as the kids say. I never used Anscochrome again.</p>

<p>One Detroit Center</p><div></div>

<p>I generally try to shoot things that are attractive in some way and to pass on the ugly stuff, of which there's far too much.</p>

<p>But here's this.</p><div></div>

<p>Thank you , John and Tony.</p>

<p>Bloomington, Minnesota</p><div></div>

<p>Leica M3, 35mm f/2.8 Summaron with yellow filter, 1/125 @ f/5.6, Tri-X in D-76 1:1.</p><div></div>

<p>Carver</p>

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<p>Busker.</p><div></div>

<p>Mundane. Our granddaughter, Charlotte.</p><div></div>

<p>In honor of Q.G., a bird picture made with a Hasselblad. (500C/M, 250mm lens, Velvia.)</p><div></div>

<p>M-3 with 35mm f/2.8 Summaron. Tri-X, D-76 1:1.</p><div></div>

<p>That 1964 Spiratone ad brings back memories. I used the 135mm f/2.8 preset lens shown there and their TelXtender on a Yashica Penta J. Here's a picture from that combo taken around 1966.</p><div></div>

<p>Ah, well. Turns out my camera has a seven-digit number: 1109318.</p>

<p>Not Fibonacci, not palindromic, and not prime (2 x 7 x 17 x 59 x 79).</p>

<p>I didn't win the Power Ball either.</p>

<p>OK, this is fascinating!</p>

<p>I understand 3 x 9 x 8 = 216 if the first three digits must all be different as in the original query. But would the number not still be palindromic if some of the digits repeated, such as 788887 or 886688 or even 999999? It seems the formula covering that possibility would be 3 x 10 x 10 = 300.</p>

<p>I must now hurry home to see if I have the Fibonacci M3. (Much likelier than winning the lotto.)</p>

<p>Another useful book if you decide to scan and work on it yourself: <em>Photoshop Restoration and Retouching</em> by Katrin Eismann.</p>

<p>Condolences, Joe and Steve.</p>

<p>This is the Renaissance Center in Detroit.</p><div></div>