Pro Camera One Roll Project

For their one roll contest I thought Pro Camera would select a CHO-style photo like this exposure from the DJT DC 6/14/2025 event. Instead they chose old white guys…
These two. I met the old-feller on the right when I was six, met the one on the left when I was twenty-three.
They are wild, philosophical, and fun.
They can edit, sail, hammer, talk, teach, and rabble rouse.
we are going down a road together
Above, my friends’ grandfather, at his farm. The Pro Camera Team’s pick of a corn-photo of Mr. Frank’s descendants 100 years later is an example of the film silver halide magic, Stitching across time.
I started chasing shadows in 1968. I’ve been a farm-laborer, photojournalist, toiletologist, dishwasher, janitor, retail photo clerk, plumber, HVAC tech, auto mechanic, CAT scan tech, computer worker, dog walker and tree-planter. Photos are a favorite thing, my heart and memory.

Adrian Edward Pols

A list of adjectives; strong, brilliant, rational, irascible, controlled, erudite, demanding, inquisitive, honest, blunt, diplomatic, professorial, Adrian had huge range, 88 keys. But when feces hit the fan, when you needed a friend, there was none better or quicker to stand with you. Adrian was that friend.
Euripides said “It is in trouble’s hour that the good most clearly show their friendship”. Adrian, being a Johnnie, might say it in Greek.
Card from the early days. No one could fix the Bosch mechanical fuel injection on our car except the wild social working genius from Brunswick, Maine.

Adrian died September 11, 2025. Beautifully cared for by his family.
His son Evan was by his side everyday.