Fred Lynch retired in 2018 after capturing images for the Southeast Missourian since 1975, in that time moving from black-and-white to color, from film to digital and to video. The blog title is a nod to an earlier era of news photography and the 4x5 Speed Graphic: It's more important to be there for the shot than to worry about technical details.

Cars on the Mississippi River

Posted Wednesday, June 26, 2013, at 12:00 AM

The towboat Lady Ree pushed barges with new automobiles down river near the Missouri Dry Docks at Cape Girardeau in this undated photo by G.D. Fronabarger.

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