Credits, Acknowledgments & Awards

Credits

CD Logo: Paul Shoemaker (original design ca.1965, redone for this site 1998)

My Photographs:

Camera dealer: Studio City Camera, North Hollywood, CA
Cameras and lenses: Olympus OM2 and OM10. Primary candid lens is Vivitar 70-210mm macro zoom telephoto with Vivitar 2x teleconverter (therefore 140-420mm). I also use the f1.4 50mm, 200mm portrait and 26mm wide-angle lenses from the Olympus OM series
Darkroom supplies: Freestyle Sales Co., Hollywood, CA
Films and processing: Primary emulsion is Kodak Tri-X (ASA400), usually processed in Diafine developer (two-bath) to ASA1600, once in a while in D-76 at normal ASA400. Occasionally I will use Agfa APX25 (processed in D-76); Kodak Double-X fine-grain, (D-76); Kodak Plus-X (D76); Kodak TMax P3200, push-processed in Diafine or Kodak TMax developer to ASA12,500 (very grainy but fantastic in low-light situations); and whatever other emulsions and developers tickle my fancy. (If a photo in these pages was not shot on Tri-X, the emulsion is indicated.) All photographic chemicals are prepared with distilled/purified water. All films fixed in Arista fixer and cleared with Kodak hypo clearing agent.
Negative holders and binders: Vue-All archival vinyl holders, kept in Wilson-Jones DublLock D-ring binders; binders supplied by Steve's Office Supply, Yucca Valley and 29 Palms, CA
Enlarger: Beseler 23CII, EL-Nikkor 50mm lens
Enlarger Easels: Saunders
Papers: Arista VC Plus RC (variable-contrast; Freestyle's house brand; 5x7 checks and 8x10 releases), Kodak Polycontrast (8x10 RC); Ilford MG FB (8x10, 11x14 and 16x20 fiber); others on occasion. Documentation identifying paper brand, grade and lot number is supplied with all fiber prints.
Paper developer/stop/fix/clear/wetting agent: Nacco Printol 12, 12:1 dilution; Kodak or Arista indicator stop; Arista fixer; Nacco hypo check; Kodak hypo eliminator (fiber prints only); Kodak Photo-Flo wetting agent.
Washers: Your Standard Circular Tub (RC); Kostiner archival (fiber). All fiber prints are treated with hypo eliminator before washing.
Ferrotyping dryer for fiber prints: Premier Professional (Doran International)
Clothesline and pins for drying RC prints by Valu-Rite (nee Thrifty Drug), 29 Palms, CA

Computer Equipment:

My computers: 2mHz 8080 (8" floppies), 4mHz Z80 S-100 (8" floppies and 14" 26MB hard drive (Televideo 925 terminals on CP/M machines), 30mHz 386 (2), 80mHz Cx486DX2, Cyrix333
Operating Systems: CP/M, MS-DOS, and Windows 98 (arghhh!)
Monitor: NEC Multisync 3D
Scanners: Plustek Optic Pro 9636T [recommended!]; formerly ProScan PS-6000 [not recommended]. Both use the manufacturer's TWAIN 32-bit driver
.jpg and .gif Viewer: ACDSee32, from TUCOWS (The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software) [shareware] or ACD Systems, Ltd. [purchase]
Photo editors: Micrografx Picture Publisher v7.0; IPhoto Plus; Microsoft Photo Editor
Page editors: Netscape Communicator/Mozilla Composer (with additional plug-ins available from Netscape Development Site) for rough editing; scripting (and cleaning out the bloat introduced by Mozilla) done with Arachnophilia, an excellent freeware HTML editor
Mail Client: Eudora Pro v4.x. You can download Eudora Lite, a less-capable version, from TUCOWS (The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software)
FTP: Cute FTP (32-bit version), from TUCOWS (The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software)
Modem: clone 56K
My ISP: Earthlink (GTE no more!!!)

The Site:

CD Web Server: ServSite and Rick Gardner, to whom grateful acknowledgment is hereby given for furnishing this Web space, for tons of help with scripting and other matters, for eons of patience ... and for an enduring friendship
Server form scripts: JavaScript,
Shopping Cart: Chris Buxton
Film links: Internet Movie Database
Book links: Amazon.com
Arts-related text and other links: Yahoo.com
Earthquake Information: Southern California Earthquake Center

Acknowledgments

Marshall Bennett (especially!)
Tim Brough (ditto!)
Paul Shoemaker and Jon Lackey (dittoditto!)
Rick Gardner and ServSite
John Knight
Grover Helsley & Mark Peterson
Skunky Schouten
David Lacy
Don Petty
Carl Riggins & Emmet Lawrence
Mike Pastori
Richard Cayia Rowe
Harris Boldt Edelman III, pvac, BR'S BBS, red-agnes.la.ca.us and red-eft
Bob (Zero [0TSM]) Reite
Lee & Mary Tessina
J.T.
(The late) Terry and (the late) Mike Hodel
(The late) Rob Eichberg, Ph.D., (The late) David Goodstein, and the very-much-still-alive The Experience Workshop (see Rob's photo on the first Portraits page)
(The late) Gary [Guy] Young
(The late) Jimmy Faison [JIM7]
(The late) Kris Deegan
(The late) Bob Stodder
(The late) Max Rochlin
(The late) Aaron Bloom
(The late) too goddamned many others taken from us (and from you!) by The Plague and Governmental bigotry, homophobia and indifference

Awards

... well? I'm waiting!

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