Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys play at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., at a concert celebrating folk singer Doc Watson’s honorary doctorate there. Ralph Stanley is on the right. The fiddler is Curly Ray Cline. I lost the guitar picker’s name. The photo, taken May 1, 1973, is a scan from a print; the original negative has been lost. Nikkormat FTn with a Nikkor 50mm, f1,4 lens. Film was Tri-X pushed well beyond its rated ASA of 400. Click to enlarge.
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Picture of the Day, 2015.08.02
Doc Watson (right) and his son, Merle, play for an audience at Appalachian State University during the celebration of the honorary doctorate that the Boone, N.C., school awarded the blind folksinger. The photo, taken May 1, 1973, is a scan from a print; the original negative has been lost. Nikkormat FTn with a Nikkor 50mm, f1,4 lens. Film was Tri-X pushed to an ASA way, way higher than the normal 400. Published as end plate of “Blind but Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson,” by Kent Gustavson, Ph.D., c. 2010, Blooming Twig Books, New York. Click to enlarge.
Picture of the Day, 2015.08.01
Doc Watson and his son, Merle, play for an audience at Appalachian State University during the celebration of the honorary doctorate that the Boone, N.C., school awarded the blind folksinger. The photo, taken May 1, 1973, is a scan from a print; the original negative has been lost. Nikkormat FTn with a Nikkor 50mm, f1,4 lens. Film was Tri-X pushed to an ASA way, way higher than the normal 400. Published as end plate of “Blind but Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson,” by Kent Gustavson, Ph.D., c. 2010, Blooming Twig Books, New York. Click to enlarge.
Picture of the Day, 2015.07.31
Early morning on the Atlantic Ocean at St. Augustine Inlet in Florida. Taken April 25, 2015. Nikon D7100. Sigma 70-300mm lens at 105mm (157.5mm DX). ISO 400. 1/8000 sec. f/11. -1EV. Click to enlarge
Picture of the Day, 2015.07.26
Easter Vigil in the early evening of April 6, 2015, at College Lutheran Church in Salem, Va. iPhone 4S. 4mm. ISO 800. f/2.4. 1/15 sec. Click to enlarge
Picture of the Day, 2015.07.24
Fishing charters leave light trails as they leave St. Augustine Inlet in Florida on the way out to the Gulf Stream before dawn April 23, 2015. Nikon D7100. Sigma 70-300mm. 70mm. 105mm DX. ISO 100. f/11. 12 secs. -1EV. Click to enlarge.
Picture of the Day, 2015.07.22
Rock lilies at sunset at the edge of our woods. Picture taken June 10, 2015. Nikon D7100. Sigma 70-300mm. -2 EV. ISO 800. f /11. 1/250 sec. Click to enlarge.
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