Cook Bank Building in Rhyolite Acrylic Print

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The remains of the Cook Bank Building still dominate the Rhyolite skyline just as it did when it was built in the early 1900's at a cost of $90,000. The building had marble floors imported from Italy, mahogany woodwork, electrict lights, telephone, and inside plumbing. By 1910 parts off the building were being sold off and by 1919 the building was no longer in use.

It all started when I was about 5 or 6 years old and I got my hands on a well used Kodak Brownie Target Six-20. I would wander the neighborhood, carefully selecting the 12 exposures, and then run the roll of black and white 620 film to the Fotomat in the parking lot of the nearby grocery store to get it processed. I eventually progressed to a Kodak 110 Instamatic, that I earned by selling newspaper subscriptions, and then in 1977 my parents gave me an Olympus OM-1 SLR for Christmas. The OM-1 opened up a whole new world for me. It was a real camera and felt solid in my hands, but it was also a completely manual camera. No autofocus. No autoexposure. It forced me to learn the relationship between shutter speeds and f-stops, how to control...