Krueger Photography

I just uploaded pictures made during my numerous local photo expeditions into a Huntsville Alabama Gallery. The older I get, the less interested I am in traveling, plus the hassle of dealing with TSA agents to try and get them to do a hand search of my film has never been particularly appealing or reliable.

A Few Comments on the Images

All the images are scans of 8×10 RC darkroom prints made on Ilford Cooltone, Kentmere Select VC, or Adorama branded papers developed in Dektol or D72. I don’t use warm tone papers including Ilford’s Multigrade Classic. While I also print on fiber based papers, it’s usually only for work to be framed and hung on a wall. RC paper is great. I love the look of the pearl finish, which is what I now use exclusively, and it’s wonderfully easy to handle and process. But, to me, RC is no match for a fiber based print that flattened by stretching. The surface texture is perfect with no warpage and without a hint of veiling.

These pictures go back a few years, with one going as far back as 1990. Going backwards from the present to September 2021, I went through 3 boxes of roughly 250 prints each and scanned about 250 worthy of posting on my two websites, 42 of which are posted in this new Huntsville Alabama gallery. But, there are many more boxes going back many years, so I probably have more pictures from local expeditions.

All of the pictures in the Huntsville Alabama Gallery have embedded metadata of some kind, but only the IPTC Title and Description are displayed overlaying the image when you wiggle the mouse. I tried to include technical aspects of the image (camera, lens, film and developer info) in the description, while the title provides basic subject matter info, including the month and year the photo was taken. For outings where I used the F6, I was able to include shutter speed, aperture, and focal length info which is imprinted between frames on the film and which I also download using the Promote Systems Meta35. Unfortunately the Showkase gallery software that I use has some limitations on displaying the description text. If it wraps to a second line, which is common for narrow vertical images, the lower half of the text is cut off.

You’ll notice that I like pretty clouds on a darkish sky, so almost all the pictures that include the sky are shot through a red filter (either a 25A or a 091), often combined with a polarizer. I don’t record exact filter configurations, so if a polarizer isn’t specified, it doesn’t mean I didn’t use one for that image.

Brace for a lot of churches and banks. They seem to be the most photogenic buildings in Huntsville. Surprisingly, I’m not getting bored with my Huntsville outings. I am, instead finding myself challenged to discover the thousands of great shots that I know I are there waiting for me should I someday start thinking a bit more “outside the box”.

In addition to the 42 images I uploaded here, I scanned another 200+ images from local outings that I plan to upload to my Cityshadows.org website. I will probably include less metadata with them since it’s quite time consuming.

What’s Next

My next gallery project will be dedicated to self portraits going back 30+ years. I don’t have many of those, but it’s something I do from time to time when I want to shoot something without leaving the house.

I also need to review the 400+ images from Italy that are currently in a Cityshadows Italy Gallery and pull a few of the best for display on this site. The same goes for pictures from a Montreal/Quebec City trip that never made it to my websites (because I’m basically an extremely lazy person).