Running Eagle Canvas Print

Running Eagle Falls, Glacier National Park, runs down a shaft and out about two thirds down the cliff wall. Early in the summer the volume is so high it goes over the top as well, but as the runoff lessens, the fall over the top narrows and finally diminishes so the water only shoots out the lower opening. This is obviously the falls at high volume.

I started with black and white. Not that I am so old that I pre-date colored film, but for high school the chemicals for the dark room were simple and straightforward enough for a sophomore photo class. I borrowed my dad's Exakta 35mm camera, which he had years before I was born. It was a wonderful camera with a focal circle in the center, which was split in half horizontally, so when I dialed the image un-split, then it was focused. It had a leather camera case which protected the lens and snapped right to the camera body. I thought my old camera was better than any of the newer ones my classmates used. I loved the class, and while my classmates were making fake IDs in the darkroom I was making a big photo of a big barn the size...