Shephard's Cabin Windowsill in Monochrome, Lyons Ranch Toddler T-Shirt

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Bottles line the windowsill in the shephard's cabin at Lyons Ranch in Humboldt County, California. The ranch was operated between 1868 and 1959 as part of the Lyons family's sheep ranching operation and is now part of Redwood National Park.

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...