A brand new 1931 ½ Ford Falcon Futura was my second car. My Mon, for some reason, knew a salesman at Archway Motors’ satellite office—it was tiny and could only show one car—who made me a deal for around $2600 for a brand new model. It was loaded and was it the cool Futura model with bucket seats.

The Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland is located in north central Colorado. The forests and grassland encompasses 1.5 million acres and extends north to the Wyoming border, south of Interstate 70 to Mount Evans, west across the Continental Divide to the Williams Fork area and includes short grass prairie east of I-25.

When it comes to determining exposures for portraiture—outdoors or in-studio—there are all kinds of so-called rules telling you what the ideal lighting ratio should be. You’ll often hear the ratio of 3:1 tossed around but  Renaissance painters used an approach called chiaroscuro that featured lighting ratios that would make most studio photographer’s hair catch fire but in the process they created art that transcended the centuries.

Henry Fonda (1905–1982) was one of my favorite actors from the Golden Era of Hollywood films. Recently I had the chance, quite by accident of viewing back-to-back over two days, two of his films. One was from the beginning of his career, the other from near the end. Here are my takes on the movie and Fonda’s participation in them.