All The Dumb Things

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Archive for May 1st, 2007

Panning at the horse races

Posted by razzbuffnik on 1st May 2007

Sometimes a blurry photo is more expressive and has more impact than a sharp one.

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Cambodian AT-28D, 1974

Posted by razzbuffnik on 1st May 2007

This is a picture of the attack version of the “North American T-28″.

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I tried to get a ride on one but the pilot wasn’t interested in taking me up (strangely enough). I never was successful in getting any flights in Cambodian combat aircraft. I even tried to get flights on “Huey” helicopters as well. The only military aircraft I was able to hitch rides in were transports and they were always “Fairchild C-123K”s.

On a photographic note, the dark vertical streaks (bromide streaking), were caused by the fact that I had the film developed locally and since the ambient temperatures were so high, most of my negs were over developed and that’s why they look so grainy and the skies look so blown out. The higher temperatures also meant that the development times were accelerated, making problems like bromide streaking, caused by insufficient agitation much more likely.

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