If  you haven’t  yet, make sure you check out our latest cover profile by David Koon. It’s the fascinating tale of a Cuban doctor, who  couldn’t support his family on the $38 a month he and his wife, also a doctor,  earned,  so  he  started playing music professionally. After a stint playing music in Mexico, he and his multi-generational family  moved to Arkansas, where they have a family band that’s become popular throughout the state.

Also, check out the Observer for some outtakes from that story.

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But why I’m really writing is to brag on the hardest working photographer in Arkansas. That’d be the Times Brian Chilson.

He took our latest cover shot with a Crown Graphic circa 1960. Read on to hear and see his process. 

Camera was a 1960s era Crown Graphic 4×5 film camera. The thing leaning against the camera is a film holder.

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Color film processing chemicals were mixed and heated to proper temperature. “Very important,” Brian says.

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Film was loaded into a tank, processed through a three chemical process and then removed from the tank, and hung to dry on Brian’s curtain rod.


Finally, the film was scanned and sent to our designer. 

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