Saturday, February 12, 2011

Blast from the Red Sox Past....in 6x17


Casey Stengel (1891-1975)

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Boston Red Sox Home opener 4/6/01                                             ©Michael Seamans

The Egyptian Revolution is over, and thoughts return to spring training around Red Sox Nation, or did those thoughts ever leave? I would call these photos, misadventures with a Fuji 6x17. These photos have never before been seen, since I have never owned a scanner that could scan this format, until now, and because I was actually rained out. Opening day 2001, grand plans to make some interesting photos on my "day off", with a camera that I had never used before. My grand plans were foiled by April showers. I had planned to bring the 6x17 and a Holga, move around the stadium making panoramic and plastic camera photos. Of course I didn't have a roaming pass and couldn't use a tripod around the stadium. So as game time approached the rain showers began, no rain gear for the 6x17, the holga has a fixed exposure and the light dropped so much I couldn't hand hold the 6x17. So these are the few 6x17 that I managed to pull off. It is still a cool camera and I plan to revisit it now that I can scan the negs... 

~Michael







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