September 24, 2005 Elijah Cobb’s Home and Studio Cody Wyoming

September 24, 2005
Elijah Cobb’s Home and Studio
Cody, Wyoming

Been a great couple of days, here at Elijah’s. Developed over 300 sheets of 4×5 film and got to see all the images since leaving Omaha. Have done some strong stuff. I need to find a way to process film in the airstream with this cold ground water problem. It’s important to see the work as I shoot it. Would allow me to correct the problems and see how I am seeing as I go along. An excellent example of this is the Old Faithful work. I was unsure as to how much movement I wanted and sort of thought I wanted less. I ended up shooting twice as much film, so I could have it both ways. This also severely limited the amount of images I had to work with as the longer exposures where by far the best. Opposite of what I though. If I had the ability to run film that evening I could of done more with the longer exposure the following day. Must find a solution in the coming weeks

Have wondered around Cody a bit and me some very interesting people but still feel Cody is more of a one night tourist stop than anything else. For example there is no real leather shop in town to but supplies. Enjoy the folk’s we’ve met and the landscape is magnificent though and we have truly had a good time at Elijah’s.

Tomorrow I do my first town portrait.

Elijah at Sunset