This:
Came from this:
Yes, that is a 35 mm slide.
Back in the day that's the format I used. My equipment was a kit from the Sears and Roebuck catalog that included a Pentax K1000 camera body with a macro kit and telephone lens and other accessories. I used that gear for 20 plus years from age 11 up. That's the equipment I had. Not much to brag about, but I learned a lot with it.
In order to get these photographs for upload, I had to take macro pictures with my new equipment. I know they didn't come out that great but I hope some people will find them interesting.
I mentioned this information because of two pictures that I recently uploaded to the site. One of them is the pitcher plant above. Here is the other one.
I took both of these photographs with that old equipment. I started going through my old slide collection and I found these 2 and some others that I probably will put up in the future. I am labeling all of these entries as "vintage". Yes I know the quality is not that great, hence the "Vintage" label, but they do have some historical meaning, at least to me. I hope some of the people on the site will find them interesting.
The circumstances for the pitcher plant are as follows. I was a park seasonal naturalist with Weymouth woods-Sandhills nature preserve for 2 summers during my junior and senior years of marine biology school. Those were the most enjoyable summers of my life, and as I tell people all the time it was the best $5 an hour job I have ever had.😂
During that summer we spent time on the Fort Bragg military reservation. At that time you could freely enter the fire breaks, and we often did (Now you might get shot on sight so I don't get down there anymore). I spent many an interesting hour on those fire break roads.
In those areas there are several pocosin or "bogs or swamps on a hill", and I knew about some of them. This is where I got the Pitcher plants. There are some other photographs from that era that I will probably come cross, and I'll try to upload in the future.
The sundews were in a different place. Another one of my favorite places to go. I lived in Wilmington, North Carolina after I graduated from school for about 10 years. To the south of Wilmington is it large swamp known as the Green swamp near Supply, NC. It's vast acreage covered with swamps, alligators, water moccasins and a whole bunch of other creepy critters (Probably like in Florida everyday). I used to drive down there on occasion. I would spend hours in that place looking for plants and animals. Here's a shot of me back in the day in the swamp.
You may notice how my right hand is held out to my side. I didn't have a timer on my old equipment. I had to use 1 of those old pressure bulbs to trigger the shutter to get that picture. That's 1 for the history books for sure.
If you ever have a chance to visit Green swamp, it's worth a visit to stop your car on the side of the road and walk around for a little while. And definitely take your camera with you!📸🐦📸💮📸🐢📸🕷📸🐸🐿📸🐊🐊🐊
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