…a previously unpublished picture from 24 years ago. Southeastern Virginia / Kodak Portra 160 – Hasselblad 903 SWC.

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This image from almost 40 years ago was taken with a Yashica Mat-124 G. The camera was a twin lens reflex with the distinction of being the most affordable medium format camera of its day. Pictures were taken hand-held or on a tripod, typically at waist-level with a flip-up viewfinder. For many folks (me included), the just-over-$100 price tag opened the door to 120 film and square format.

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In June 1999 we took a trip west from Minneapolis to the western half of the Dakotas. I was using a pair of Hasselblads on a tripod for most of my work and there are many images (such as these) which were never printed or scanned.

These pictures were captured at the end of a summer day on Agfa Ultra 50, a slow 120 negative film which I rarely used. The trio was scanned yesterday on the Epson V700.

There are other “newly-minted vintage” items found throughout the galleries I’ve been working on, including more photographs from this trip which you can see here (the three images in the middle).

If you’re not familiar with these badland formations, there’s various spots where they’re found in the western plains, from Texas all the way to Canada. Little Missouri National Grassland is in North Dakota.

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