Silver Plated Studio

This is the type of photographer that I esteem to be in wet-plate. I could look at this photo for hours. The subject: Epic. The photographer: GENIUS.

Texas has been blessed with a number of gifted local/community photographers over the years. Traces of Texas reader Deanna Hines graciously sent in a whole passel of photos taken by her great uncle, the celebrated Basil Clemons of Breckenridge, Texas, whose work I have highlighted here. This is one of the many glorious portraits that he took and features one Uncle Tom Harris. I'll bet this man saw some things and could tell you some stories.

As I've mentioned in the past, you can see a bunch of Basil Clemons' photos in this amazing collection: https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/collections/basil-clemons-photograph-collection

Thank you, Deanna. What an amazing photographer your great uncle was!

Test shots of My Mike while learning my camera. The third photo, I had staring at me from my desk because that's the look he gives me when I'm not getting my work done. 😆