Moonlight view on the White River and Northern

Dated 22 June 1974, this almost ghostly-looking image appears as if it was taken by the light of a full moon. We can see that the creek acquired water and the surrounding land got some healthy stands of pine trees. Bear in mind that each of these Jack Work style trees took an afternoon to make, so the small "forest" seen here represents quite an investment of time.

Image specs: Obviously I still hadn't learned much in the way of taking better photographs, and once again I used black-and-white conversion to salvage this color Polaroid print. But my era of bad photography was nearing an end as I was about to embark on something new: pinhole photography.

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