What Cap Are You Wearing Today?

[Monte]

I don't think I've contributed here before. Just home and still in a modern Biltmore and a favorite gunclub sportcoat of mine.

 

[Art Hat1]

My newest 8 panel, red diamond pattern - just in time for the fall season.

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Really a nice!

 

[Art Hat1]

Spent a fun and very muggy day at a place called Bok Tower Gardens, perfect for a Thomas Farthing hopsack cap!

 

[shopkin]

Wow. An old-school garden designed by that Olmsted guy of National Parks fame. Looks beautiful in the pitchers but I'd sure like to walk through. Oh.... very nice hat too.

 

[Art Hat1]

Wow. An old-school garden designed by that Olmsted guy of National Parks fame. Looks beautiful in the pitchers but I'd sure like to walk through. Oh.... very nice hat too.

It’s a gorgeous place, definitely worth a visit!

 

[Doctor Strange]

Gray cotton Sterkowski "Elvis" model:

 

[Blare]

Gray cotton Sterkowski "Elvis" model:

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I like the shirt as much as the cap!

 

[Doctor Strange]

Thanks Joe, that shirt is a favorite.

As a lifelong film shooter (going back to my pro-photog parents - see pic of me from the late 1950s), Kodak has always loomed large in my consciousness! I've got two 1960s-vintage cameras loaded with Kodak b/w film right now...

 

[Blare]

Thanks Joe, that shirt is a favorite.

As a lifelong film shooter (going back to my pro-photog parents - see pic of me from the late 1950s), Kodak has always loomed large in my consciousness! I've got two 1960s-vintage cameras loaded with Kodak b/w film right now...

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That’s quite the line camera right there. I spent 10 years selling film and cameras at an old time camera store And years off and on as a pro. I have been wanting to get out with my old twin lens medium format film cameras.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Sorry to take this thead off topic just a little longer...

Joe... A year or two after that picture, my folks got a huge Goodkin vertical stat camera for litho work, which was a significant aspect of our business for decades. We made color separation negs and halftones for the local print shops, resized type and graphic elements for the area's commercial artists, etc. An entire world of photochemical printing technology based on handmade mechanicals that would eventually be supplanted by computer-based tech.

That early 1900s 11x14 Ansco stand camera was repurposed with a smaller reduction back for making ID photos on 2-1/4 x 3-1/4 inch (6x9cm) Tri-X sheet film. In those days, the DMVs and passport offices didn't do their own photographs, so this produced a steady flow of walk-in cash business. We'd measure the groundglass image to get the required head size correct so the negs could be quickly contact-printed. Back in the sixties, we charged just a couple of dollars for two prints with a two-day turnaround, and a bit more for extra prints or same-day service. (I developed thousands of those little negatives over the years! My mom was our contact-printer specialist.)

Here's one that my mom took of me in 1978, during my post-college job hunting days... that was soon used to make an I AM RUSSIAN SPY! gag ID card!

 

[DonR]

Haven't worn a cap in quite a while. Going with a Glen Eske.

 

[quikrick]

Cordova pleated wool cap.