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Today is the last day that Kodachrome will ever be processed. Last year, Kodak stopped producing the iconic color-reversal film that Paul Simon sang about. Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas will develop the final roll today. Here’s a quick tribute to all the family pictures shot in Kodachrome colour.

Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away

photos from .Dianna. Antoine Ruedisueli frontdrive34 talon k. spello Here in Van Nuys via Flickr

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When I was a kid, the holidays brought on two things: boisterous family dinners with my 13 Irish cousins and their families, and several photo sessions where every single grandpa, aunt, uncle, kid and dog had to be lined up and photographed in any number of decorative arrangements. The process could take an hour and felt like a day. After a few seasons of this, my next-eldest cousin and I discovered a good way to get ourselves kicked out of these interminable sessions. We would wait and smile patiently until just before the Brownie bulb flash before screwing up our faces, sticking out our tongues and generally turning ourselves into little trolls. When the slides and prints came back from developing, there we’d be, for all eternity, with our faces squashed in extremely amusing positions.  Read more...