Portrait Of The Professor As A Young Man by photosynthesis
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Description
About a week ago, Andrea (durleybeachbum) posted a self-portrait of herself & I mentioned that it reminded me of a photo I took of a friend a long time ago. This is that photo, taken in 1968 if memory serves me well, which is of my friend & college roommate. I scanned it from an 8x10 print of a 35mm photo that I developed in my own darkroom at the time & did some very minor tweaking in Photoshop.
The late 1960's were an interesting & exciting time to be coming of age, but I will not go into any further detail to protect the innocent (& guilty). I will say that he has gone on to a very successful & distinguished career & is now a professor & department head at a very well-respected east coast university. Sadly, we have mostly lost touch, though I do hear from him very occasionally...

Comments (7)
He looks like my kind of guy! My art school was full of lads like this, it's a shame I didn't marry one of them. It's a bit late now..... This is a great portrait, I feel I can tell what sort of character he has.
cute he was
He looks like a really cool guy a wonderful portrait picture my friend :)
Great portrait and cool story about him! he looks like he fit in well with the era
Very nice portrait of your friend!
Bet he'd love to see this photo now. He has a dreamy look behind those shades. Life does quite a job on changing appearance and sometimes outlook and even attitude. Becoming successful and distinguished leads to lots of weighty responsibilities...
How we all change! Great portrait shot!