Doesn't look like I've posted this image on this thread....which is surprising, since to this day I think it is probably the best large format image I've ever made.....and it was one of my first. It's all been downhill since then I guess....despite spending many more $$ on equipment.
I took this photo with my first view camera....a Graphic View II and and old Zeiss Tessar lens (which I subsequently sold and wish I still owned). Maybe it's that lens which gives this image a "glow" which I've never been able to achieve since. Or it could be all the stainless steel and natural light. Hard to say.
This diner on the edge of downtown Minneapolis was demolished as part of an urban renewal project a couple months after I took this photo. I used to stop here regularly in the early 1980s during one summer on my way to work in the morning....I walked past here and would stop for a cup of coffee or breakfast.
I've made several inkjet prints (up to 13x19) of this image over the years and it never fails to please me. One of these prints was selected for the annual Alaska Rarefied Light Juried Photography Exhibit a few years ago.
Now if I could just make a few more images like this before I put the cameras away for good......
Gary