A moment of silence for the end of an era. When I was coming up as a photographer,Kodachrome was the Holy Grail-the Cadillac of film. It was saturated,contrasty,sharp and spectacularly beautiful.

PARSONS — Freelance photojournalist Steve McCurry,whose work has graced the pages of National Geographic,laid 36 slides representing the last frames of Kodachrome film on the light board sitting on a counter in Dwayne’s Photo Service in Parsons.