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Strawberry Canyon, Southern Idaho --Despite being held up by the weather and the myriad of packages that UPS had to deliver that Christmas Eve, a brand new lens showed up just before we closed the doors for the day. I had a new lens, my son had a learners permit to drive so I talked him into taking one. Strawberry Canyon in Idaho is unique because the winter setting sun is in line with the canyon, unlike the usual deep-in-shadow-before-the-sunset canyons along the Wasatch Front. So we chased the sinking sun up, stopped to take in a sunset, and then we would hop in the truck and drive higher and take in another and another all the way to the top. This picture is as high as we could chase the sun up and we caught it kissing the treetops goodnight.

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...