AUGUST 2002 – Mark Zanzig stands next to a road sign marking the Cariboo Gold Rush Trail in British Columbia, Canada. © Petra Zanzig/zanzig.com
The story behind the image
I like to use my birthday to reflect on the development over the years (and now decades.) I’m looking at the past and wonder what has happened. As part of this routine I re-discover ideas that I had in the past but that got lost over time.
While systematically scanning the mountains of photo prints, slides and negatives I found this image from our 2002 trip to British Columbia and Alberta. We were on our way back to Vancouver and I realized we were using the Cariboo Gold Rush Trail, that’s the historical path that gold diggers took when they traveled from the United States through Canada to the gold fields in Alaska.
The Cariboo tourism bureau has put up a couple of road signs to make drivers aware of the historical path they are using. I’ve never been a gold digger, but back in 2002 the impressions of the first digital gold rush – aka the Dot Com Bubble – were still very fresh, and in a way I had been part of that Gold Rush as well. Sadly, I did not get rich, and fortunately, I did not burn zillions of money.
Back in 2002 I found it funny to shoot that image of me standing next to that road sign just in case that I should find my digital gold mine at some point in time. I didn’t, and today I find that image just silly.
But at least, I look much younger. 😉
The high resolution image
| Capture Date | 26-AUG-2002 |
| Location | British Columbia, Canada |
| Camera | Canon AE-1 Program |
| Image Source | Fuji Slide Film |
| Digital Image Source | Minolta Dimage Scan Elite II |
| Digital Image Source Format | TIFF, 48 bits/pixel, AdobeRGB |
| Edited Image Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Dimensions | 3208 x 2135 Pixels |
| Copyright | © by Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com |
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