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Montanus Photography Photography by legendary Kodak photographer Neil Montanus and his son Jim.
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Did you catch the sunrise this morning? Drop a photo if you did🙂
05/11/2026

Did you catch the sunrise this morning? Drop a photo if you did🙂

05/10/2026

In case you haven't seen this before... rare vintage footage of the Lilac Festival by Neil Montanus. The year was 1955. My parent's had just gotten married a year earlier and moved from Illinois to Rochester where my Dad took the job of staff photographer at Eastman Kodak, while my Mom became an elementary school teacher at School #25 in the city. What do you find most interesting about this movie? For me, it's how people dressed up - and the old Children's Pavilion, a iconic three-story, circular open-air structure designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and dedicated in 1890. It sat at the park's highest point near the reservoir, featuring a 62-foot diameter and providing panoramic views of Rochester, but was demolished in 1963 due to disrepair. A have much longer 5 minute version of this movie, if anyone is interested.

Good morning!
05/09/2026

Good morning!

Venus rising over Marlands Shores, my childhood home. 30 second exposure at F8, ISO1250
05/06/2026

Venus rising over Marlands Shores, my childhood home.
30 second exposure at F8, ISO1250

Serious drama in the skies this morning
05/05/2026

Serious drama in the skies this morning

Do you remember these cardboard cutouts from back in the day? In Rochester, these would have been displayed in 'Photo sh...
05/03/2026

Do you remember these cardboard cutouts from back in the day? In Rochester, these would have been displayed in 'Photo shops' such as Carhart Photo, Norton's Camera, Rowe Photo, Amod's and of course Kodak. In 1966, this Kodak Summer Girl came back to Kodak Office to pose with her lifesized cardboard cut-out and visit with my Dad - who was the principal photographer for the summer girl program - and Don Elmslie, manager of Kodak displays.

Good morning
05/02/2026

Good morning

Manitou Beach at late dusk tonight. It was the end of the line of the Grand View Beach Railway, which began service alon...
04/26/2026

Manitou Beach at late dusk tonight. It was the end of the line of the Grand View Beach Railway, which began service along the lakeshore in June 1891 from Charlotte all the way to Manitou Beach.

04/24/2026

some beauty overlooking long time tonight

I got a northern lights alert early this morning. Unfortunately, that didn't pan out, but there was a beautiful starry p...
04/18/2026

I got a northern lights alert early this morning. Unfortunately, that didn't pan out, but there was a beautiful starry pre-dawn sky. And then... the sunrise happened.

Over 1000 lightning discharges this morning according to my lightning tracker and this is all I got. It could have been ...
04/15/2026

Over 1000 lightning discharges this morning according to my lightning tracker and this is all I got. It could have been epic, but the heavy rain obscured most of it. And because it was mainly cloud to cloud lightning didn't help.

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