I was stationed at Muir Woods for three years, and WOW actually had my job title changed from Administrative Assistant to the exulted title of Administrative OFFICER.
I have some slides of the park, but they haven't been scanned to CD as yet. The company I've been using for scanning, DigMyPics.com, suffered a terrible fire back in May, and I was lucky as I didn't have any slides with them at the time. They had some 100,000 slides and negatives when the fire took place, and have spent the last several months salvaging what images they could save from their servers. They did such a fine job of scanning for me that I've waited until they were back in business again (which seems to have taken place in the past couple of weeks), so now I can continue have my slides scanned.
In the meantime, I will feature one photograph from Muir Woods in this post. While I was working there, two different movie companies were allowed to film some scenes in the Woods. The first film was "
Petulia" starring George C. Scott, and he was there for the filming. The film director was Richard Lester. The second film was "
Finian's Rainbow" starring Fred Astaire and Petula Clark, and was directed by Francis Ford Coppola (yes, even he did have some flops). All these people came to the Muir Woods "set", and the one photo here is of yours truly enjoying a moment with Petula Clark.
As mentioned in an earlier post, the DigMyPics slide and film scanning service is back in business. So, I was able to get the rest of my Muir Woods slides scanned. There were not many, but here they are including George C. Scott resting between scenes (see previous post). Photography in Muir Woods is extremely difficult because of the extremes in lighting. Even digital cameras have trouble with the high contrast, but by taking more than one photograph of the same scene at different exposures, software can correct the problem.
