By: Chuck Miller
Photography, Uncategorized

Sending five of my Kodachrome shots to London…

I only discovered this event a few days ago, and I’ve been scrambling to find my best Kodachrome shots for submission before the upcoming deadline.

The AOP Gallery in Shoreditch, London will host a gallery exhibition from January 18-February 10, 2011, featuring the stunning imagery of 75 years of Kodachrome film.  This show will be a a sequel to their highly-successful 2008 Polaroid exhibit.

Photographers are permitted to send up to five Kodachrome slides; a downloadable entry form is available in PDF format here.

It’s too late for me to take any “special” photographs for this project (right now, Dwayne’s Photo has a 3-day turnaround time for Kodachrome development); so I will have to use what I’ve shot over the past six months.  I quickly went through my Kodachrome slide archives, staring with a critical eye at the hundreds of images I’ve taken this year – and choosing five entrants.

And here they are.  These are the five images I have chosen to enter for the gallery show, and hopefully one or more of them will be accepted.

DESTINATION VOYAGE ROUGE ET BLEU

  • Quebec City, P.Q., April 2010, Kodachrome 40, Kiev-19 35mm camera.

This was photographed using a five-second exposure and a blue-shifted Kodachrome 40 film.  I will not give up on this photo.  It has to win something AT SOME POINT!

THE RAILSPLITTER

  • Voorheesville, N.Y., August 2010.  Kodachrome 64.  Nikkormat FTn camera.

This was one of my photographs along the Albany County Rail Trail, and shows the unused railroad in a serious case of disrepair and neglect.

BARN VERSUS WEEDS

  • Greenfield Center, N.Y.  August 2010.  Kodachrome 64, Nikkormat  FTn.

This barn was once a home to farm animals; now it’s got a new tenant.  I saw this barn while I was driving along Route 9N, and had to get a picture of it.

SHELL GASOLINE STATION

  • Boston, Massachusetts, July 2010.  Kodachrome 64, Nikkormat FTn.

You don’t really get to see this sign from ground level; because of the roadway, you essentially pass it before you realize it’s a gas station.  Maybe it works when the sign is illuminated at night.

TOLL GATE ICE CREAM

  • Slingerlands, N.Y., March 2010.  Kodachrome 200, Kiev-19 camera.

This was one of the first Kodachrome shots I ever took – on a Sunday morning, just as winter was slowly fading away.

I burned each scanned image onto a compact disc, as required by the entry rules (each file named Miller_Chuck_01.jpg, Miller_Chuck_02.jpg, etc.; all files saved as 300dpi JPG’s with RGB color profiles).  I also included an MS Word document describing each photograph, as well as the story behind each image.

Everything was quickly sealed up and sent off to London.  I couldn’t e-mail the images; instead, I had to ship everything in a global priority mailer so that it would make the November 12th deadline with moments to spare.

And supposedly, by around the 19th of November, I will know if any of these photographs have earned recognition in a London gallery.  And if so, I will then have to print out and ship high-resolution prints of the accepted submissions.

I don’t anticipate any financial reward on these photos – this time, it’s a chance for me to show off my work as part of a respected London art gallery showing.

Wish me luck.