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Tina - January 1973 Click on photo to enlarge - © 1973 jim otterstrom

one lovely young girl

with a world out her window

shares in the wonder

Original image taken in January of 1973 with a Nikon F Photomic using Kodachrome slide film/exposure data long lost & forgotten. Digital image copied from the original slide with a Bower High Defintion II slide-copier attached to a 5 megapixel Canon S2IS.

Tina is the daughter of my old friend Judy. Judy was the girlfriend of my best buddy Gary Guarnier, a Hollywood film editor (The Waltons, Murphy's Romance etc. before he died, in 1988 at age 39, of complications from Hodgkins Disease). We all shared this big 'barn-style' house---with great windows---on the corner of Canoga Avenue and Golondrina Road, in Woodland Hills, California. I was still in my 20s.