The last fall foliage photos in Kodachrome

So earlier in October, I took my Nikkormat FTn, packed it with Kodachrome film, and went for a drive.  The leaves on the trees were already changing from a dull green to an amberish yellow, from a deep red to a silent brown.

This would be my only change to photograph this fall foliage in Kodachrome.  Couldn’t waste the moment.

At the time, I had a roll of Kodachrome 200 in the camera, which really hasn’t worked well for me in the past – it’s a faster film, but it has a lot of  grain.  And I still didn’t know if this roll was one of the fresher rolls, or one of the “magenta shift” packs that I got online.  I drove up Route 7 from Troy to Bennington, pulling over whenever I saw the trees in mid-color-shift.

I packed the camera with more Kodachrome, this time using a 64 roll. Some of these shots were along the Hudson River near Green Island; others were taken along Sheridan Hollow in Albany.

As you stare at these pictures, just realize – these types of photographs will have to be taken with a different type of color reversal slide film in 2011.