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This is one of the photos in my new book, Expired Vol. 4. It was taken on Ansco Versapan, which expired in May of 1964. The book also contains the entries from my travel journal. If you'd like a copy, that's easily arranged. This is the entry for this photo:

Day Thirteen - July 12
Napoleon, North Dakota

Sometimes there are travel days when nothing specifically amazing happens, but everything is just kind of perfect. That was today, from start to end.


Good days are not necessarily rare on the road, but days like today, when everything went right, make the bad days worth it.

From morning till evening, the weather was outstanding. It was cool, the clouds were fluffy and abundant (though it was not "cloudy" by any stretch).

It was breezy without being windy - adding a bit of motion to an otherwise still image. This hopefully shows through in my longer exposures. I love to show the movements of nature - it's always in motion - and a bit of a breeze helps to represent that in a photo.

I found some unique spots; and found others where I could challenge myself to do something different.

For lunch, I found a beautiful lakeside park all to myself. It even had a small hand pump for water.

There were no photographic mishaps. No breakdowns. No one hassled me. Everything just worked.

I was even able to shoot two shots for this project.

The first was of a falling apart church that I've wanted to shoot for years now. The second was of a school I had visited once before but had forgotten about.

For the night, I'm in a small town park in North Dakota. It has showers, and though I didn't feel overly unwashed, I find it impossible to say "no" to a free bath.

I hope tomorrow runs just as smoothly.


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Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm

North Dakota
July 2022

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Taken on: July 12, 2022
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