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Immigration Rally in Lafayette Park, June 30, 2018

Dan Murano — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 17:30:00 +0000

Immigration Rally in Lafayette Park, June 30, 2018

July 01, 2018

On June 30, 2018, protestors gathered in Lafayette Park, directly across from the White House to protest the Trump administration's recent policy of separating parents and children illegally crossing the border between the U.S. and Mexico, even in cases where they were seeking asylum.

The subsequent march from Lafayette Park seemed sporadic and not as well organized as the rally itself, perhaps due to the intense heat and unrelenting sunshine.

These are far from any comprehensive coverage of the event. I'm still getting familiar with my OM-D EM-1 Mark II camera and was eager to give it a workout. It performed far better than I did in capturing some of the events of the day.

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Photos from the 1993 LGBT March on Washington

Dan Murano — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 15:42:44 +0000

Photos from the 1993 LGBT March on Washington

June 08, 2017

Many of these images are scans of prints I made shortly after the March, along with some more recent scans of the negatives. Be sure to check out the gallery at the bottom of the page for a full selection of images. (updated June 19, 2017.)

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LGBTQ demonstrations

A woman picks up a sign before the march.

Signs calling for an end to the ban on military service by LGBT people.

March marshalls head for the organizing area after an early morning rally.

Two people walk towards the starting point of the march.

Participants in wheel chairs leading the march wait for the starting signal.

Lady Liberty.

The march moves along Pennsylvania Avenue.

Spectators along the march route.

Some marchers came in costumes.

A marcher along Pennsylvania Avenue.

The march moves along Pennsylvania Avenue.

Guys watch the march from their hotel window.

Spectators watch the march from in front of the Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Guys hang out of their hotel window to see the march.

An anti-march protester at Freedom Plaza.

A man standing with Westboro Baptist Church members taunts marchers.

Hecklers at Freedom Plaza.

A woman responds to hecklers.

Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps is attended to after being maced by a marcher.

Marshals separate marchers from protesters.

Gay veterans respond to taunting protesters.

Marchers spar with hecklers at Freedom Plaza.

Spectators greet each other along the march route.

A gay veteran responds to chants from Westboro Baptist Church members at Freedom Plaza.

Shirtless spectators along the march route.

An marshal drops to the ground in relief at the end of the march.

A marcher cools her feet in a fountain.

The post-march rally on the National Mall.

A man photographs the gathering on the National Mall.

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The Women's March on Washington

Dan Murano — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:07:44 +0000

The Women's March on Washington

June 02, 2017

A few photos from the Women's March on Washington which took place on January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump.

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Solitary Moments

Dan Murano — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:08:25 +0000

Solitary Moments

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Dan Murano

Mar 04, 2013

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In 2009, I published a book of my photos called "Solitary Moments." It was a sampling of images from my archive, which dates back to the mid 60's.

"Solitary Moments" was a self-published book, but I was happy with the layout and the reproduction quality, and I still enjoy looking through it from time to time. I had other volumes in progress, but those projects stalled due to the lack of time for scanning and tweaking the images.

The ceramic man pictured on the cover came from a trash room raid in a condo building where I lived during years of lean means. He's a reminder that there is always something good within sight.

For a long time, I would not crop my images. More recently, I've tried easing up on that, though I still believe it's important to scan and utilize every part of the frame. The bulk of my work is and will probably continue to be film-based, though I enjoy my Iphone camera and will be posting some of those in the near future.

Cicada
(2004)
Ebony head
(1989)
Early snow
Barton, Vermont. (October 1, 1987)
Beverly
Pittsburgh. (1974)
Bird watching
Morticia. (1993)
Grave stone angel
Pittsburgh. (1993)
A clearing in the woods
Near Rehoboth, Delaware. (2007)
Sudden rain
Washington, D.C. (1984)
Barren sidewalk.
Washington, D.C. (1990)
That way
Washington, D.C. (1990)
Long stretch
Washington, D.C. (1990)
Eiffel Tower.
(2003)
The National Mall
Washington, D.C. (1988)
Beach buckets
Ft. Myers, Florida. (2002)
The Girth & Mirth table
Gay Pride Day festival, Washington, D.C. (1987)
Greyhound bus station
Washington, D.C. (1984)
Georgetown alley
Washington, D.C. (1984)
Halloween party
Pennsylvania. (1974)
Dune path
Provincetown. (2004)
Colorado River
(2004)
A winter day in Paris.
Looking across the Seine from L'Isle St. Louis. (2003)
The county jail
Pittsburgh. (1988)
Leo McCauley
Pittsburgh. (1993)
Walking to market
Mbaiki, Central African Republic. (1978)
Fog over the Allegheny mountains.
Pennsylvania. (1999).
Rocky Mountains
(2004)
Stepping over puddles
Pittsburgh. (1976)
Steady rain
Pittsburgh. (1976)
Staying dry
Pittsburgh. (1976)
Rainy day
Pittsburgh. (1976)
Rainy day dreams
Pittsburgh. (1976)
The cemetery ahead
Pittsburgh. (1993)
Gay Pride Day parade
Washington, D.C. (1991)
First Lady
Gay Pride Day parade, Washington, D.C. (1991)
Entertainer
Gay Pride Day festival, Washington, D.C. (1985)
A glimmer of light
Cottage curtain, Provincetown. (1980)
Halloween
Provincetown. (1990)
Shadows on my cottage wall
Provincetown. (1980
Radar
(1989)
The red house
Pittsburgh. (1971/72)
Bike path view
Delaware. (2007)
Bike tracks
Washington. (1993)
Pittsburgh's South Side
(1984)
Stickers
Arlington, Virginia. (1994)
Tidal pool
Along a bike path in Delaware. (2007)
Casino lights
Las Vegas. (2005)
L'Arc de Triomphe
The Las Vegas version. (2005)
Crown of thorns
(1990)
Staircase
Paris. (2003)
Pines
Washington, D.C. 1984
Face painting
Gay Pride Day festival, Washington, D.C. (1985)

What can you do with an old roll of Kodachrome?

Dan Murano — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:00:51 +0000

What can you do with an old roll of Kodachrome?

October 15, 2012

NOTE: Read the updated version of this content on my new website: Fotospecchio.com.

The last Kodachrome processing lab closed a long time ago. I had an exposed roll that had been sitting around since 1986, first in a drawer, then in the fridge and finally, years later, it ended up in the freezer - just a 35mm film cannister wrapped in aluminum foil. I remembered what was on it, but expected the latent image was long gone. It wasn't!

Back in the early eighties, I had to scrimp and save for every roll of film that I bought. One day I was shopping in Woolworth's and saw a batch of outdated ASA 25 Kodachrome II for about fifty cents a roll, and I bought the whole batch.

It was expensive to process though, and I held back on sending out this last roll. About 23 years later when I was getting back into darkroom work, I remembered this film and even some of the images that were on it. With a freshly mixed batch of Diafine black and white film developer and some free time, I set off to experiment.

I read posts from other photographers who had successfully retrieved images from Kodachrome with black and white chemicals, so I figured I had a good chance of getting something out of it. I would have been happy to see even a trace of what I had photographed.

Diafine is a two-part, compensating film developer with a very long shelf life. Processing temperature is not critical, nor is processing time beyond a minimum three or four minutes in each of the solutions. I processed for four minutes in each bath, A and B.

I was amazed when I unspooled the film and discovered an image. Kodachrome has a black rem-jet carbon backing that has to be removed to make the film transparent. I did this by laying the wet film down in the sink and carefully sponging the backing away. I missed a few bits here and there, though, and these show up as white specks on the final image. The film also had an overall yelllow stain, which fortunately, caused no trouble my Nikon Coolscan.

The biggest treat in doing this was discovering the photos I had made of my niece, Sharon, with her then new baby. Even though the copy of it here was flatbed scanned through the plastic negative sleeve, it looks nearly as good as all of the other frames scanned with the Nikon.

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Dan, I remember you from your beginnings. Your love of photography goes back to your days at Sears.

Fri, 11/23/2018 - 09:45

Who is this? Would love to know. :-)

Fri, 11/23/2018 - 09:29