About
1968
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Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach
March, 1968
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Approaching the hill to Joshua Tree
on Highway 62




I got a loan and bought this place
on March 19, 1968









Hobbit providing some perspective






























































































This $50 Branstrator trailer will
become my home away from home

Hobbit and Tibboh







































Passing through Indio

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Back home in Costa Mesa
rebuilding the trailer





























June, 1968




My big doors find another purpose



My respected guide and mentor

Flying east around July 31, 1968

Dad was told to smile
Cataumet, MA






John Church and Tom Blakeman
August, 1968

My bedroom in the garage - full house


























My dad and sister Virginia Leal Blakeman Giebel

Dancing a boogie woogie
at a weekend bottle party

Mom and dad












About to go spearfishing
in Megansett Harbor









Rebuilding my Branstrator trailer
in back of my home in Costa Mesa






September, 1968





My Willys Jeep

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Good friends Bill Tinkey and Les Ingledue,
two members of my writing group at OCC
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My cool jazz chair.
Yes, I was trying to make this pic weird

My bedroom. Note the jerry-rigged mike
and speaker for talking on the phone
Talk



An Elephant Ear tree
in my back yard

Experiments in photography







Float found on the beach was twice this long.
Been adding candles ever since.
Don't know why - peaceful, maybe

Made this lamp sculpture from scrap.
The mural is by a previous tenant

David Walden Young at
Hussong's, Ensenada, MX

The pretty girls ALWAYS zeroed in
on Dave, the attorney











A loaner from Dave's court clerk

















The Mexican Navy in Ensenada harbor















Newport Beach sunset
October, 1968
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Experiment in photography







Photography assignment
November, 1968















Experiments in photography
for my class at OCC































I ripped old fence boards to
make this sculpture











Laguna Canyon Road from above





Hired to photograph Ernie's rock band
Orange County


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My first photo job.


With Barbara
December, 1968



Portrait assignment






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Dr Charles J Galbo and friends


















Trains from NY to Princeton, NJ
































Antique TriX camera shots



































December 25, 1968





































































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Princeton, NJ
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Holder Hall
Princeton University





Flying west December 31, 1968

A neighbor's dog 'Bear' had jumped the fence
in September and impregnated Hobbit


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