I’ve taken another trip down memory lane. This time to the summer of 1979, when I spent a weekend visiting relatives who lived on the Brazos River, near Houston, Texas. They had a lovely home which backed up to the river, and I brought along my 35mm Nikkomat FT3. Unfortunately,…
© 2021 by Gayle Martin. All Rights Reserved. Monument Valley, Arizona, with its unique massive buttes, is a photographer’s dream. It’s located on the Navajo nation in northeastern Arizona, near the four corners. John Ford made Monument Valley famous in the 1930s when he directed a number of western movies…
© 2020 by Gayle Martin. All Rights Reserved. I’m still working on my 35mm project and have restored more of my vintage photos. This small series is part of a bigger series I took in the United Kingdom back in 1987. I was on one of those guided bus tours…
© 1979 2020 by Gayle Martin. All Rights Reserved. I attended Arizona State University in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ASU is a beautiful campus with impressive architecture and scenic landscaping. In 2011 I revisited the campus. Some areas looked exactly as they did when I was a student.…
Original Photo with Color Degradation. © 2019 Gayle Martin. All Rights Reserved. As I mentioned in my earlier post, The 35mm Project, I’ve been busy restoring old 35mm photos I took back in the 1970s and 80s. While it’s been a really fun trip down memory lane, the colors in…
© 2019 by Gayle Martin. All Rights Reserved. As some of you know, I’ve been doing photography for most of my life. At the risk of dating myself, I’ll admit to having used film cameras much longer than digital cameras. Like many “old school” photographers, I was skeptical of digital…