In a continuation of the saga of Jack Welpott’s camera work as shown here and here:
Neil Miller (top left), Ted Orland (center), Unidentified Young Woman (right foreground)
And today, Neil Miller sends me this image of a poster for an exhibition — an upshot of all that activity:
With apologies to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle … 
JF in Yosemite, Derived from Analog
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FaceTime with JF (Old Testament Version)
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More new evidence is disclosed today, this confirming the presence of Ted Orland as his Leica grabs a piece of the action.
Ansel Adams Workshop, Yosemite, January 1973
With Unknown Observers and Observed – Yosemite, 1973 (could be Ted Orland in center, obscured; could even be Neil Miller’s arm and glove at frame left)
At Home in Desert Hot Springs, CA
Judy Dater in Yosemite – January 1973
Discovered a tiny ~400px square self portrait Bill made almost exactly one month before his death. I upscaled it, transformed it from color into black & white and added my own reimaginings in terms of tonality, etc. to make it read more closely to the way I personally saw my friend.
Self Portrait by Bill Wertz as Re-Imagined by Lawrence – July 2021 (in his studio, one month before death)
Living high in the White Mountains of Arizona at the edge of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation.
