There's a horse hidden in this picture. Can you find him?
The photograph was made on U.S. Highway 27 just south of Winfield, Tennessee, near the Kentucky line, on October 25, 1994. I was on my first trip to find and photograph Rock City barns.
My camera was the ahead-of-its-time Canon EOS 10-S, and the lens was the Canon EF 70-210mm f4; an okay lens, but not the sharpest in Canon's arsenal. When I had the opportunity I upgraded to the Canon 80-200 f2.8L, a lens so legendary for sharpness that it was nicknamed "the Magic Drainpipe.
As usual, the film was Fuji's RDP100 Professional slide film, my all-time favorite, although Kodachrome 64 would have been a close second. I slightly preferred the colors of the Fuji, but it's big advantage was that I could (and did) process it myself, while the Kodachrome had to be sent to a Kodak lab for processing.
This is by no means the sharpest picture I've ever made, but it was sharp enough to make a 20x30-inch print that hung over our fireplace for many years.
Well, enough tech-talk. Have you found the horse? Here he is.
Photograph and text copyright 2022, David B.Jenkins.
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My most recent book, Backroads and Byways of Georgia, is a 304-page soft-cover with more than 200 color photographs. Published by Countryman Press, it is priced at $22.95. Signed and inscribed copies are available directly from me at (423) 240-2324 or djphoto@vol.com.
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