"The Workhorse," Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, 1977.   This was my main camera (Calumet 4" x 5") and lens that I used for more than forty years.
I did most of my photographic work with this camera, exposing over two thousand + negatives and positives.

Print and Image size: 9 1/2" x 9 3/4" on 13" x 19" premium pigment paper, 2017.

In around 2020, I sold this camera and my other three lenses to a teacher that taught at the Midtown High School, previously known as Henry Grady High School in Atlanta, Georgia.

This pigment print:  $250.00 + shipping & insurance.  To see a "fake" framed image of this print, click here   "Bruce W. Taylor Archives."

In the late 1970's, I was just starting out on my own photographic business, specializing in commercial architectural photography.  In January of 1981, Clarence John Laughlin was having a photographic opening at the Jay Crouse Gallery in Atlanta.  I decided to go.

Mr. Laughlin was nice enough to sign his book for me.  In that time period, Atlanta was hot in photographic print sales. I don't know about today?

In the early 1960s, I was just learning photography.  I started by using my father's cameras which were 6 x 6 cm and 6 x 9 cm formats.  Although my high school had a darkroom in the chemistry classroom it was reserved exclusively for the yearbook staff so I relied on a local camera store to process my film and make 3½ x 5 inch and larger prints.

In 1965, I purchased my first camera; a Kodak Instamatic 324, manufactured in Germany with a Rodenstock lens.  It was a significant investment at that time. It used different films (negative and positive) but I mostly used the twelve exposure black and white film. The negative size was about one inch square. The image shown above is from one of my earliest photographic projects using this camera, taken near my home in Frederick County, Maryland. Titled: “I-70 Construction at Ridge Road, Frederick County, Maryland, 1965.” It documents the massive excavation required to cut Interstate 70 through the Catoctin Mountain range.   The highway project connected Washington, D.C., with northwestern Maryland and beyond.

The image above has been produced as a panoramic print. It's full image size is 24 1/8 inches in length and each print is 5 1/2 inches square (approx.)  My name and copyright date (on the upper part of print) are not on the actual prints.  Several prints are available for purchase.  One unmounted single weight print $150.00 and one unmounted double weight print $300.00. Prices of prints do not include shipping or insurance.

For the panoramic print above, I had four negatives scanned at 2,500 dpi on a 8" x 10" drum scanner by John Dean of Dean Imaging, Atlanta, GA.