{"id":11442,"date":"2014-09-29T17:26:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11442"},"modified":"2014-09-29T17:29:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:29:43","slug":"kodachome-1935-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11442","title":{"rendered":"Kodachome 1935 – 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was Fall of 1976, my daughter Catherine Anne was three months old and my father is holding her.\u00a0 The shutter clicked and one of those images that defines your life as a photographer was exposed on a roll of Kodachrome!\u00a0 For many years those yellow canisters filled the outside pocket of my camera bag.\u00a0 Kodachrome was, for many years, the king of slide films.\u00a0 As the T-shirt says; Paul sang about it. (Kodachrome\u00a0 Paul Simon)\u00a0 A state park was named after it, (Kodachrome Basin in Utah).\u00a0 National Geographic shot their most famous photos on it.\u00a0 With the advent of Fuji Film’s Velvia, then digital, and finally the EPA, it died.\u00a0 Fuji became the rage, Kodak refused to understand that people wanted the brighter deeper colors, of course digital changed every thing for all films, and the Kodachrome process was highly toxic and the last straw was drawn when the Environmental Protection Agency said that Kodak could no longer run the film’s processing machines.<\/p>\n

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The image above is of\u00a0 my daughter Catherine being held by my late father William Pelle Fortney, The image means a great deal to me, it was a tender moment of my father holding my daughter.\u00a0 It is one of those images that endures in our hearts, our memories, and on film.\u00a0 I’m glad I was shooting Kodachrome that day!\u00a0 Seems funny but from time to time even shooting a digital camera when I’m in the thick of shooting and enjoying just the feeling of making images, I can hear Paul singing, “Kodachrome, you gives those nice bright colors, you give us the greens of summer, makes you think all the worlds a sunny day, oh yeah, I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph, oh momma don’t take my Kodachrome away…..”\u00a0 ……………. but they did!<\/p>\n

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Dwayne’s Photo developed the last roll of Kodachroime on December 30, 2010 for Steve McCurry of National Geographic.\u00a0 For the images on that last roll see the link below:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/stevemccurry.com\/galleries\/last-roll-kodachrome<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If\u00a0 you want the shirt, use the link below!<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.dwaynesphoto.com<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  It was Fall of 1976, my daughter Catherine Anne was three months old and my father is holding her.\u00a0 The shutter clicked and one of those images that defines your life as a photographer was exposed on a roll of Kodachrome!\u00a0 For many years those yellow canisters filled the outside pocket of my camera […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11450,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11442\/revisions\/11450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}