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After being heavenly criticized in the 40ties and early 50ties for neglect, the National Park Service, who manages the National Parks, decided in 1955 to upgrade the visitors' experience by improving the facilities and infrastructure of the National parks. This project was funded by congress. It started in 1956 and was to be finished in 1966 for the 50th anniversary of the National Park Service. The project was called "Mission 66" The building in this image is the visitors Center at Flamingo Point in the Everglades National Park and was part of Mission 66. There is also a (closed) gas station and a lodge.

As always captured on sheet film with a large format camera

Ever since my parents gave me my first camera during a family vacation, I have been hooked to photography. I was 6 or 7 years old and the camera was a little plastic Kodak Instamatic. I still have it. I love working with one of my vintage cameras. My cameras range in age from 85 to 45 years old and in formats up to to 4 x 5 inch. I also love working with alternative processes such as pinhole photography. Somebody said once about one of my pinhole Everglades images that the image Really conveys that Everglades look!. That was one of the nicest comments I have ever received. Is that not what photographers are going for? That moment that the subject, the viewer, and the photographer all become one? I had several solo shows in The...