🚀 go-pugleaf

Shep, the house I grew up in makes that place look like a dump. :)

As for the "cool look" or "special quality" I would guess it's a combination of the age of the film (which was Kodak print, 200-400 ASA, whatever they were selling at the time) and the <cough> revered <cough> lenses I had on my AT-1: a Soligor 135 for some (plus a Soligor 2x teleconverter). I used a Tokina 28-50 for everything else. The scans, done about 7 years ago, came from my 2900dpi Nikon scanner. I probably did some tweaking to bring out detail and who knows what else. My post processing consists of whatever I feel like doing as I'm doing it.

The shot of Hohenschwangau was taken from Neuschwanstein's upper floors (again, as best I remember). Here's the obligatory shot of Neuschwanstein from the bridge nearby:

 <http://www.pbase.com/ho72/image/110316038/original.jpg>