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gabriel: I think I like this one the best, mostly because it's out of the standard photo-portrait style. (Looking off-camera, interesting lighting.) Chris, did you just make prints from these old negatives or run them through a negative scanner? Either way, they look quite nice. Do you not know who these characters are or can you not say? (I'm just curious.) mwirth: It's like a businessman receiving a message from God, or something. There's a lot of drama in this picture. The lights and shadows are great. cutler: This is a print that I made from the negative, then scanned in (I happen to think that it looks better on paper than it does on the computer screen). I have last names for most of these fellows, but I'm a little concerned about posting the names and faces of strangers on the web (I have no idea what the legal ramifications are, to say nothing of the moral ones. . . so I think anonymity is the way to go). Likewise, I intentionally avoided naming the institution where these were taken. . . but suffice it to say that if you worked in the field of behavioral psychology in the late sixties, you might recognize some of these guys. And yes, I did pick this one for the drama of the lighting and the posture of the subject. My first guess is that this shot was a mistake and the guy looked the other way at the wrong moment, but there are no more images of him on the roll. . . either this was the picture my grandfather wanted of this man, or my grandfather didn't get a chance to take another. Add comment