30 October, 1965, Bushnell Auditorium, Hartford, Conn.

bdcolen

When giants walked the earth.

Shot from the balcony with a 135 Schneider f 3.5 on a Honeywell Pentax - on Tri-X.

phillybikeboy

bdcolen wrote:

When giants walked the earth.

Shot from the balcony with a 135 Schneider f 3.5 on a Honeywell Pentax - on Tri-X.

Very nice. How far did you have to push that Tri-X? 1600?

bdcolen

phillybikeboy wrote:

Very nice. How far did you have to push that Tri-X? 1600?

That was a lonnng time ago- my senior year in high school. I'm going to guess 400 or 800, in Acufine or Diafine.
For decades all I've had is a tiny print of the left hand image in a copy of the school paper. Then the other day an envelope arrived in the mail with two dusty, well loved, well thumbed
little prints - copies of copies. No note, but the return address had the name of someone I went to school with, who I have reconnected with on Facebook. So I scanned the images at 4800 dpi and went to work with Photoshop. The quality isn't great, but together like this, in a 16x20 frame with an 11x14 mat opening, it looks quite cool - especially if one is a Dylan afficianado.

Richard

With hungry hearts through the heat and cold
We never thought we could ever get very old
We thought we could sit forever in fun
Our chances really was a million to one.

-Bob Dylan's Dream

phillybikeboy

bdcolen wrote:

That was a lonnng time ago- my senior year in high school. I'm going to guess 400 or 800, in Acufine or Diafine.
For decades all I've had is a tiny print of the left hand image in a copy of the school paper. Then the other day an envelope arrived in the mail with two dusty, well loved, well thumbed
little prints - copies of copies. No note, but the return address had the name of someone I went to school with, who I have reconnected with on Facebook. So I scanned the images at 4800 dpi and went to work with Photoshop. The quality isn't great, but together like this, in a 16x20 frame with an 11x14 mat opening, it looks quite cool - especially if one is a Dylan afficianado.

Wonderful story. The only thing I might do differently is put the acoustic image on the left, since he did the first half of those shows folk, and the second electric. Yes, I am waaaaay too literal. Still, a great document. Looking at it, I can almost here the cries of "Judas!"

bdcolen

phillybikeboy wrote:

Wonderful story. The only thing I might do differently is put the acoustic image on the left, since he did the first half of those shows folk, and the second electric. Yes, I am waaaaay too literal. Still, a great document. Looking at it, I can almost here the cries of "Judas!"

Yah, a tad too literal. :-) And no cries of Judas there - this was Hartford, Conn, not UK. And don't forget, "Like A Rolling Stone" had been on the charts that summer. There were certainly people waiting for the acoustic portion of the show, but I think by then in the U.S., people who thought he was 'Judas' weren't buying tickets.

damonff

awesome

rutt

Wonderful. I look at these and I hear "My Back Pages" or "Positively 4th St." or "Mr. Tambourine Man" or "Love Minus Zero / No Limit" or ...

michswiss

rutt wrote:

Wonderful. I look at these and I hear "My Back Pages" or "Positively 4th St." or "Mr. Tambourine Man" or "Love Minus Zero / No Limit" or ...

I thought you weren't old? Who was that in Virginia's image?

michswiss

bdcolen wrote:

That was a lonnng time ago- my senior year in high school. I'm going to guess 400 or 800, in Acufine or Diafine.
For decades all I've had is a tiny print of the left hand image in a copy of the school paper. Then the other day an envelope arrived in the mail with two dusty, well loved, well thumbed
little prints - copies of copies. No note, but the return address had the name of someone I went to school with, who I have reconnected with on Facebook. So I scanned the images at 4800 dpi and went to work with Photoshop. The quality isn't great, but together like this, in a 16x20 frame with an 11x14 mat opening, it looks quite cool - especially if one is a Dylan afficianado.

B.D.

What a wonderfully validating experience!

This is reminiscent of my Dad's similar experiences over the years. He is frequently contacted by old students and musicians that learned from or performed with him. He was a music teacher and choral conductor with a career lasting 40+ years. I took a month around 11 to 12 years ago to digitise the tapes of his concerts and performances dating back to the 1950's to ensure they wouldn't be lost.

His music and your images are such a legacy.

bdcolen

michswiss wrote:

I thought you weren't old? Who was that in Virginia's image?

Oh, I am definitely old. Depending, of course, on your definition of old. (That is, after all, me in the photo to the left - although it is about a five-year-old photo.

NeilL

Nice presentation job. Appropriately gritty true like the sounds you would have been hearing.

Keep it alive!

Neil

bdcolen

michswiss wrote:

B.D.

What a wonderfully validating experience!

This is reminiscent of my Dad's similar experiences over the years. He is frequently contacted by old students and musicians that learned from or performed with him. He was a music teacher and choral conductor with a career lasting 40+ years. I took a month around 11 to 12 years ago to digitise the tapes of his concerts and performances dating back to the 1950's to ensure they wouldn't be lost.

His music and your images are such a legacy.

Thanks, Jen - I just wish I hadn't lost virtually all my non-family, pre-mid 1990s or so negatives. Including, but not limited to, the 40 rolls of film I shot of the 1964 Newport Folk Festival; a two-day, late October 1968 trip on the Hubert Humphrey campaign bus and plane; all my Somalia negatives; and on and on. :cry

Patti

OMG what happened to them BD?

You photos of your hero are terrific. What a time you must have had.

bdcolen

Patti wrote:

OMG what happened to them BD?

You photos of your hero are terrific. What a time you must have had.

Thanks, Patti - Well, the Newport stuff - who knows? At some point over the years the contact sheets and negs - all produced in the Life Magazine darkroom (long story) disappeared, probably during one of many moves.
Newsday, for whom I shot in Somalia, managed to lose/misplace all my negs.

The Humphrey stuff - again, who knows.

Ah well....