Richard Gorton's personal photographs

In approximate chronological order:

These are scans of slides. I used a Nikon Coolscan V ED scanner with the autofeeder to convert my 700+ slides into .tif files, and then used ImageMagick to convert them to jpg. Where unknown, the dates listed are based upon the markings on the slides as date of processing. The slided prior to 1985 were all taken with a Kodak 35 Rangefinder camera: 50mm 1:3.5 lens, minimum focal range 4 feet, shutter speeds: T,B,10,25,50,100,200.

Slides developed July, 1975

Various Racine slides; also those from our 1975 family summer vacation drive to Colorado, in which various stops included

Governor Dodge State Park (western WI)
Effigy Mounds National Monument
Pipestone, (someplace) SD
Laura Ingalls Wilder Town De Smet, SD
Badlands, SD
Scandanavian style church in Rapids City, SD
Lead/Deadwood & Homestake Gold Mine tour
Mt. Rushmore
Needles
Custer State Park, SD


Various in Racine	Various in Racine

Governor Dodge St. Park	Effigy Mounds National Monument

Pipestone National Monument	Laura Ingalls Wilder site

Badlands National Monument	Stavkirke Chapel, Rapids City, SD

Homestake Gold Mine tour, SD	Mount Rushmore, SD

Needles, SD	Custer State Park, SD

Scotts Bluff, Nebraska	Deer Valley Ranch, Buena Vista, Co

Slides developed December, 1975

Misc. content

Slides developed in 1976

Some slides from Sarasota, Florida, and Chapleau, Ontario, followed by content from the annual summer vacation trip. According to notes from the time, the slides are of:

I-55 speedtrap in Illinois
Springfield, IL - Lincoln's Tomb and an 1840s town
Truman Library, Independence, Missouri
Lake Perry, Kansas
Jon, Joel, Andy
Gorton's Campground in Colorado (no relation)
Colorado Springs: USAFA, Garden of the Gods
Hummingbirds at Deer Valley Ranch, Buena Vista
Chalk Creek Cliffs in a rainstorm
Jeep trip to Pride of the West (an unfinished railroad portal)
Red Mountain Jeep trip
Pictures from the cabin we stayed in at Deer Valley
Unknown jeep trip
Lightning
Cumbres & Toltec RR from Antonito to Chama


Sarasota, FL	Chapleau, Ont.

Start of the trip	Springfield, IL area

Truman Library, Independence, Missouri	Lake Perry, Kansas

Gorton's campground, Siebert, Colorado	Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado

US Air Force Academy	Storms in Colorado Springs

Deer Valley Ranch	Cumbres & Toltec RR

Slides developed in 1977

Our summer drive west took us to:

Missouri River (Chamberlain, SD)
Devils Tower
Buffalo Bill Cody Museum
Caribou [in reality, an Elk]
Yellowstone National Park. At Yellowstone, noted photos include the sites listed below. Note that due to overexposed content and/or lack of a UV filter, the ordering is only approximate.
- Yellowstone Lake
- Old Faithful Inn & Old Faithful itself
- Anemone Geyser
- Doublet pool
- "Huge areas of reddish ponds"
- Fountain Paint Pot
- Grotto Geyser
- Morning Glory Pool
- Upper Falls (of the Yellowstone River)
- "Basin Area" (?)
- Steamboat [Geyser]
- Other Falls (presumably lower of the Yellowstone River)
Jackson Hole
Snake River trip @ Jackson Hole
And a few polar bears in the middle of a blizzard


Chamberlain, SD	Devils Tower, Wyoming

Buffalo Bill Cody Historical Center Cody Wyoming	Elk

Yellowstone National Park	Tetons & Jackson Hole, Wy.

Unknown venues and misc.

1987- mid-1990s

One of my somewhat early purchases after I got a job was a Minolta SLR; I recorded some number of activities on slide film.

A weekend visit in April, 1987 to Washington DC. Not a lot of pictures; Karen may have been in Europe at the time
A week long cruise: Miami to Cancun to Cozumel to Grand Cayman to the Bahamas and back to Miami. Done as a 5th year reunion event with some members from college (part of the computer club).
Life at the house I shared with Steve Bill and Bruce Carson, 1989 through mid-1990s
A week-long vacation through Colorado and Utah, early Sept. 1989 Lots and lots of slides from this.
Head of the Charles Regatta, 1989
Gloucester, Ma, mid-1990s


April, 1987 family meeting in Washington, DC	April, 1988 - 5th year reunion of collecge computer club: A cruise & Chichen Itza

Union St, Natick, 1989-1990	Head of the Charles regatta, 1989

Gloucester, MA, 199x

Colorado and Utah, Sept. 1989

This was basically the first long vacation (as in more than a day or two) I took after getting into the computer industry. I had a bit of a craving for mountain scenery, so decided to head to Colorado and play sightseer. Lots of scenic locations on this trip. Roughly, the schedule was

Fly in to Denver airport, stay in Longmont
Quick visit to NCAR, Boulder, Co.
Visit Karen & Steve in Fort Collins. Visit Estes Park area
Up into Rocky Mt. National Park, over to Lake Granby, then over to Dillon Resevoir area
Drive to Grand Junction, visit Colorado National Monument (but I'm not sure which slides are from there, or if I lost them)
I-70 to UT-128 at Cisco, Ut to Moab. Night-time Colorado River trip in Moab
Arches National Monument, stayed in Moab again
From Moab, to Cortez, Co and Mesa Verde. Stayed in Pagosa Springs
To Great Sand Dunes National Monument (Alamosa, Co.) and then back to the Denver area (with a quick stop at the National Carvers Museum in the Colorado Springs area
Flew back home


NCAR, Boulder, Co	Estes Park, Co area

Rocky Mt. National Park	Dillon, to Grand Junction

Colorado National Monument?	Ut 128, from Cisco to Moab

Arches National Monument	Mesa Verde

Great Sand Dunes National Monument Alamosa, Co.	National Carvers Museum Monument, Co.