Operation Sail USA Bicentennial 1776 - 1976 I took Kodachrome slides and bulk loaded Tri-X shots that day. it was overcast and very hazy. I will rescan the slides using a proprietary algorithm that comes with the Konica-Minolta 5400II scanner & will replace. The crowds would be much bigger, but remember, we had 93,000,000 fewer people then.
PlacesNoMore and wavz13 added this photo to their favorites.
+ Add
Anthony Catalano
Whiskeygonebad
Member since 2005
Photo license:
Some rights reserved
wavz13 6 months ago | reply
I remember this day so well. It was very overcast and hazy. Later in the day, the sky turned greenish-yellow and it began to pour!
Whiskeygonebad 6 months ago | reply
So do I. That "greenish-yellow" pallor that the sky would take on was due to the high sulfer content of the leaded regular gas that most cars were using at the time. remember the rotten egg smell that would linger for a while after it would rain? It was hydrogen-sulfide so I was told that was formed in the sky. It was acidic. (acid rain if you will) I did use a UV filter and a polarizer that helped cut the haze down. There is nothing like a linear polarizer. All this digital stuff has to use circular ones due to the nature of the digital image sensors being so small, now approaching the wavelength of light itself. - ac
wavz13 6 months ago | reply
I remember that smell coming out the exhaust pipes of cars with the first generation of catalytic converters around 1974, 75. In high school, I had a weekend job pumping gas and the new cars really reeked of rotten eggs! I've never heard that the sulfurous compounds released caused the greenish-yellow color that the sky would somtime take on during a thunderstorm. I'll have to see if I can find any reference to that on the internet.... it sounds interesting.
By the way, (speaking of the large OPSAIL crowds in NYC), I drove down from Connecticut where I lived to watch the Tall Ships and on the radio they kept saying to not even bother trying to get into Manhattan, so I saw the event from a much less crowded Jersey City.
Here are some links to the way I spent that same day....
www.flickr.com/photos/wavz13/4847263641/
www.flickr.com/photos/wavz13/4082278397/
www.flickr.com/photos/wavz13/4847886144/