While most of the color images have been scanned from 35mm positive transparencies, some of them were scanned from analog prints.The depth of some colors and the blackness of the shadows
varies between those two, with the deeper tones in some cases a little lighter in the images that were scanned from the transparencies. All of the black-and white images were scanned from analog
prints.
For the transparencies, I used a Prime Film 7200 35mm slide scanner; it has performed well enough but has tended to give a color cast to some of the images, affecting different
colors and densities within those photographs in different ways. I have worked -- and am yet working, it would be fair to say -- on better balancing the color in these various galleries'
images. If you happen to end up 'seeing red' or 'feeling a little green' as you scroll through the photos, for that I apologize.
The Human Element
Perhaps the Most Difficult Genre of All
Fighter pilot, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, USA.
Welsh immigrant, Trelew, Argentina.
Looking up at the fisherman, as he looks down at the fish. Akajima, Okinawa.
Climbers at the summit, Mt Giles, Northern Territory, Australia.
Efe pygmies of the Ituri Forest ( in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) prepare a banquet...
Backstage, a Las Vegas showgirl puts the finishing touches on her makeup.
Ponto-cho, a street of geisha houses and traditional Japanese restaurants in Gion, Kyoto, Japan.
Jazzman Sonny Rollins.
A crowd fills the streets on the opening day of the Sanfermines, the 'running of the bulls', Pamplona, Spain.
Young faces in the crowd as the Sanfermines begin.
Block-printing done the traditional way, Bhuj, Gujarat, India.
Participants pose in a dress rehearsal for a 'tableau vivant' during the annual Laguna Beach, California event "The Pageant of the Masters." The illumination here is the ambient theater light, far softer than the stage lighting used for the performance.
Japan Air Lines cabin crew trainees ponder how to explain a Japanese-style inflight meal in English; Tokyo, Japan.
Divers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force deploy a handheld sonar unit; in the waters off Kanagawa, Japan.
Stuntman, Arizona, USA.
Musician/singer-songwriter Elvis Costello.
Yabusame archer, near Tokyo, Japan.
Slugger Randy Bass, 'back in the day,' shot for the magazine NUMBER, Tokyo, Japan.
Another shot of Randy Bass from the same poster and magazine cover shoot.
Swimmer, San Jose, California, USA.
Hefting a red deer weighing close to 200 kg., a Scottish ghillie works his way uphill. Near Aberfeldy, Scotland.
A sake brewer; Sado Island, Niigata, Japan.
Japan Air Self-Defense Force officer candidates getting the first shot of a battery of immunizations; Nara, Japan.
Actress Suzuki Honami.
Village headman, Kathiawar, India.
Runners and the first bull out of the gate sprint up the street of Santo Domingo on Day 1 of the Sanfermines.
Beneath a bright, hot morning sky, a tea seller offers refreshment in front of the mosque, Alexandria, Egypt.
Squid fishermen, Puerto Deseado, Argentina.
Rocker Todd Rundgren and his band investigate the front end of the camera...
A Japanese Coastguardsman prepares for a mighty swing as his team squares off against their US counterparts in the weekly "transpacific" softball game on the runway at Marcus Island, Japan.
Model between takes, Okinawa, Japan.
Costumed and completely 'in character,' actors await the director's command on a Hong Kong film set.
Exams are finished and it's Saturday night: university students in a bar, Salamanca, Spain.
29 September, 1993: after a continuous 48-year presence on the island, US Coastguardsmen lower the US flag for the last time atop Mt Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan.
Japan Air Lines flight attendant trainees get a tea ceremony lesson, Tokyo, Japan.
A Bugaku dancer performing in the On-matsuri; Nara, Japan
A motorbike-riding stockman stops for a break and a brew; Northern Territory, Australia
Divers in a training tank, Izu, Japan.
Then-Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton and then-Governor of Mississippi Ray Mabus during a Tokyo visit, 1988.
Firefighters dressed for the heat. Yokota Air Base, Japan
The late Naoki Prize-winning writer Kageyama Tamio 'hamming it up' in the dress of a 50s-style rockabilly singer.
Kageyama Tamio interviewed postmodernist American poet and novelist Richard Brautigan when the latter visited Tokyo in the spring of 1984.
From his perch atop a swamp buggy, a 'Glades hunter scans the broad wetland for his prey; just outside Everglades National Park, Florida, USA.
Aviation instrument technician at work, Tokyo, Japan.
Aboard a C-9 aeromedical evacuation transport, a US Air Force nurse tends to a critically ill infant being transported in an incubator.
Efe pygmy hunter Okabali sights in on his prey, Ituri Forest, DRC.
The crew of a Japan Air Self-Defense Force C-130 transport poses for a group portrait after a mission; Komaki Air Base, Aichi, Japan.
From an underwater nude series: an outtake.
Newlywed couple, West Bank, Palestine.
A karateka gives her all in practice; Tokyo, Japan.
Countryside Congolese examine the 'wazungu' -- foreigners -- who have stopped by their marketplace; Kivu, DRC.
Sometimes simple is best: a basic, unaffected portrait of actor/filmmaker Warren Beatty.
A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force tank platoon commander, on maneuvers with his unit near Shikaoi, Hokkaido, Japan.
Fly rod maker Hoagy Carmichael, Jr., for the magazine BRUTUS.
Two WW II veterans from opposing sides meet forty years after the battle; Iwo Jima, Japan.
Dressed for the hunt; East Meon, Kent, UK.
On Iwo Jima, Japanese veterans of the 1945 battle and relatives of fallen soldiers prepare for a toast as a part of a memorial event.
Author and Los Angeles Times film critic Charles Champlin at home, for BRUTUS.
Patola weavers at work, Patan, Gujarat, India.
The blow is parried: kendo practice, Nara, Japan.
We sit silent while our host prepares the first bowl of matcha green tea. As her chashaku tea scoop strikes the edge of the cup, a faint, clear ringing note hangs in the quiet air of the tea room, and then fades. Tokyo, Japan.
A woodblock print craftsman begins the carving on a new block. Tokyo, Japan.
A JASDF pilot and a visiting pilot from Iowa Air National Guard swap unit patches at a ”Jinggis Khan" farewell party. Chitose Air Base, Hokkaido, Japan.
Shades of Izaak Walton! This English gentleman-angler is delighted with his catch, taken from the River Test with a fly before heading off for a day at the office early on a misty summer morning. Note the natty necktie. Hampshire, UK.
Scuba diving pioneer and underwater explorer Francis Toribiong, Ngeriungs Island, Kayangel Atoll, Palau.
A fireworks craftsman in his small workshop. For safety reasons, these workshops are scattered tens of meters apart across a broad open lawn. Near Tsukuba, Ibaragi, Japan
Nude figure in the water.
After hours, Japanese and visiting US fighter pilots tease a female airman about her wish to become a combat fighter pilot; Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan.
Matador in a close pass, Pamplona, Spain
Putting the final touches on a rug; Bhuj, Gujarat, India.
Unmoving, a mudskipper fisherman waits to gig his catch with the 5-pronged hook he holds at the ready: Isahaya Bay, Japan.
The aircraft restorers; a group portrait: Van Nuys Airport, Cailfornia, USA.
NIcobarese girls take an evening stroll on an island beach, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.
