Analog Treasure Hunt (and a challenge)

In the process of looking through older images for a client's project, I came across a bunch of images that have never seen the light of day. Many of you know how it is — you get your film back from the lab (or more recently, you quickly view your images after downloading them from the memory card to the computer), you pick out a few standouts, and then you file the rest and forget about 'em. This is one of those images, taken way back in September of '94, after a few days backpacking along the Colorado Trail in the Weminuche Wilderness, heading back towards civilization in the truck, and having this amazing storm clearing before me. Not a great shot, but it sure brings back some memories of a great time, even if the guy I was traveling with turned out to later be a back-stabbing s.o.b.

My challenge to you, fellow photographers, is to post images in this thread that are more than ten years old. Dust off the files, see if you can find a previously overlooked gem, and POST IT!

Here's another one. To read a story behind it, go here: http://www.toddcaudle.com/lost_and_found.htm

very interesting TC. I'm actually looking forward to your posts. I did not own a camera 10 years back so can not post any.

Fun project Todd and your leader is spectacular. I'll see what I can find when I get home.

Very cool Todd! I know exactly what you mean about old images. I was looking through dozens and dozens of my 4x5 trans yesterday (which are so wonderfully organized-not!) and came across several that I know for a fact haven't ever been scanned or put on my website. And I liked them a lot! Made me wonder why I never did anything with them! They are now in the "need to scan" pile!

Ten years old huh? Hmmm.... will look tonight!

Cool shot, Todd! I have a bunch of 10+ year old photos, but theyre all 4X6 prints from a film P&S. I might have some scans somehwere...will take a look...

Ha, here's one i managed to pull off the web--its a 9 year old shot (10 would be stretchin it for me)from...drum roll please...Bandon Beach OR! I took this with a cheap Ricoh P&S, you can see the lovely scan job reproduced the dust specks and all! Ive come a long way...baby. Nevertheless, Bandon impressed me so much i came back on several occasions armed with a DSLR

Here's a couple of gems actually and more than ten years old!

I'll have to dig around in my slides, too but found this on one of my old drives when I started looking. Must have scanned it a while back. (And no I'm not "quite" old enough to have dated one of these wild looking babes. They do still have some timeless beauty.)

Wow, back when the Charles actually had some water in it! Roger, I never said you had to jump in a time machine and take "new" photos!

My challenge to you, fellow photographers, is to post images in this thread that are more than ten years old. Dust off the files, see if you can find a previously overlooked gem, and POST IT!

More than ten years old? I've only been shooting for the past six years.

If you can't post something 10 or more years old, you can't play. Nya-nya-nya-nya-nyaaa!

This was taken at least 15 years ago. It's bad scan of a slide taken with an Olympus XA point & shoot that I borrowed from my wife. I don't know why I didn't have my own camera... Do I need to say this is the Black Canyon of the Gunnison at sunset?

Those XAs were cool little cameras. Having a PS with full manual capability back then was very uncommon.

Here's a 28 year old shot. Scanned from Mamiya 645 slide.

September sunrise on Longs Peak from above our camp in the Boulder Field.

This was my wife's one and only climb of Longs Peak, via the Keyhole route. Great trip, great memories, but once was enough for her.

Thanks for reminding me, Todd. I have scanned less than a dozen of my old MF images. - sounds like a great project for retirement.

This one has gotta be from the very late 80's, taken using one of the very first Canon EOS film cameras (EOS 850 - and I still have it!). This is a pano of Snowdonia National Park in North Wales, UK.

I'd play, but unfortunately my slides from 10+ years ago are AWOL. I have no clue what happened to them.

Here's one that's an oldie but goodie. Robert Plant at Red Rocks, circa 1988.

I am ineligable. Only six years of putting any effort into it, anything before that is just nice memories of backpacking and climbing trips. Looking back I honestly don't think I got one decent even semi-artistic image in eleven years.

I'm with Adam and Jeff, I've only been shooting for 3 years. BUT it's great to see all the old images.

Well, it took me a while to find this 4x5 trans, but finally got it. Here's a shot from below the awesome Golden Gate Bridge, taken way back in 1989. Who'd have thunk there would be fog there?

Cool idea, Todd. I happened to come across some files I was working on back in '03 from scans of old slides. It's interesting to go back in time.

This one has always been one of my favorites but I can see so many problems with it now; makes me feel good that I've impoved (a little). I was tempted to clean it up before posting. I'm looking forward to rescanning some of these old slides and working on them again.

Oh, the previous one was from 1984 or so. This one is the same era with one of my first SLRs. This is the Schmid ranch off Silver Pick Road, one of my personal recurring themes. I scanned this for posterity a long time ago but never did anything with it, you can see parts of the frame.

I'm surprised I still had any of these file on a hard drive. Proves what a pack-rat I really am.

Here is an old favorite from Megan Lake in the Sangre de Christos. The file is dated 2002 but the slide is older than that. Some day I'll have to dig it out and rescan it.

What a fun topic. Hope you don't mind my posting even though I rarely join in the discussion on this forum.

This is one of the oldest photos I have, shot in 1985 when I was 10 years old. My uncle took me camping in the Mohave Desert and we had a blast. This really brings back the memories! I used one of those disposable panoramic cameras, Kodak I think.

How was the party after the concert at Red Rocks?

This is just a smidge under 10 years. My older photos were mostly of rock climbing with my friends and in college I must have lost them in all the moves. This is my alma mater in Golden.

Well, I have been at this longer than I would like to admit, especially with no more talent than has surfaced so far. Here are some from a trip to Kauai in '98. This one is self explanatory.

This one is Kee' beach on the north shore.

And this one is from a helicopter trip. Hard to keep the horizon level without a gyro.

What a great idea Todd. This and the following were taken in 1996 when I was trying to facilitate the development of tourism in northern Albania. These were taken with a plastic point and shoot 35mm camera. I didn't know the first thing about lighting or composition and I didn't even have a tripod. This post has forced me to look back at a number of my photos, some which have the subject cut in half, completely overexposed or completely out of focus. Yikes! I could only go up from there! This image is probably the first that I ever had published, someone actually used this on a magazine cover.

Old Mill
Road to my house. Really!

This is a scan of a print from the Wind Rivers about 15 years ago. Like a few others, my camera was the little Olympus XA which was a great little camera which I held onto until last year. I did a little PS tuneup, but pretty much like the print. Amazing considering I couldn't even spell GND back then. Probably hand held, though I had a little ultrapod I used to tote around.

Roger, that is awesome!

A very cool post - time to dig deep in my highly organized (Ha) image file cabinet for some lost gems!

Denali and Foraker ~ '96

The Coastal Range in January of 1995, British Columbia, east of Whistler.
Fuji Velvia, Canon EOS1N, 600f4