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Cover Model

Here’s the cover image of Reviewer Magazine #1, summer of 1996, premier issue, with Stephanie on the cover. I was planning on posting it in the previous entry but guess I didn’t just save it as a draft and tapped enter before I got around to it.

AGFA black and white 25 speed film, a specialty German film, it has no grain, and the contrast is superb. I used it a lot back then, at least often enough to know I liked it. I might take it up again, since I still have that camera, a Nikon FM2. A real workhorse of a camera body you can actually use it with no battery at all and it’ll work on mechanics alone. Totally analog, as they say.

Stephanie wasn’t an aspiring model. She wasnt trying to get signed by a talent agency. She was a girl I met in a coffee shop on Garnet Avenue in Pacific Beach while she was waiting to talk to the owner. She was a salesgirl trying to make a sale. I liked her look and got her number. Then wah-lah. Cover action.