Angelic Morning

Minolta M7
Minolta 20mm, CPL
Velvia 50, 1/13 @ f8
Bright Angel Point, North Rim GCNP

This is from my last morning on the north rim of GCNP November 1. My A700 died the night before but I had my old faithful M7 and several rolls of film as a backup. Getting the slides processed was impossible locally even in a town as big as Houston so I had to revert to Fuji mailers. The service was pretty good although the mailers were more than double the cost of six or seven years ago.

My next challenge was to get the slides scanned. I have a perfectly fine Nikon LS 4000 but despite all kinds of effort I cannot get my Windows 7 PC to recognize it. I finally gave up and had to fire up my old XP machine to run the scanner. In processing I didn't have all the ACR tools to work with and the original capture was way too blue, even for Velvia. I forgot about the need for filters but I think this is pretty close to what I saw. At least the conditions were worth the hassle and I think I have quite a few good frames. Of course the demise of the A700 forced me buy a new A77 which I really wish I had picked up before my trip. Oh well, good reason to go back. All comments welcome. >=))>