thisbrokenncitysky asked: i just moved away from new york city, specifically riverdale in the bronx after living there for 18 years. your photos and videos are really putting a smile on my face right about now
18 years! That’s crazy. I’m glad you dig my photos, that’s what I put them here for. I’ve only been in this neighborhood about 3 years, but in NYC around 9.
Hope the grass is greener wherever you are.
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Vault Hill, Van Cortlandt Park, NYC. 13 May 2012. (Argoflex E, Kodak Tri-X 400)
Thanks to my bud Willy G, I’m now the proud owner of an Argoflex E twin-lens reflex camera! I was impatient and brought my film to a local lab instead of sending it out for mail-order developing and they scanned the photos cropped as rectangles—quite annoying considering the camera shoots square format. Oh well, the negatives look good and I can always rescan.
I’m just thrilled I got the expose semi-correct as this camera has no meter (I used this print-out paper meter as a guide). Overall I’m very happy with my first foray into medium format and I got more rolls to go!
Blur Bird.
Van Cortlandt Park, 26 Feb. 2012.
An experimental film that takes place on top of Mt. Washington? Amazing! I’ve been there (and not “My Car Climbed Mt. Washington” nonsense, I walked that sucker)!
“From fifty years of experience in the art of getting along in the world, he had learned that mediocrity was the secret of contentment.” — from Volcano by Shusaku Endo
Just got two rolls back from Old School Photo Lab, one of which was a ~10-12 year old roll I found when I was last at my parents house. The above is blurred-head self-portrait of me as a teen. Developing this was like some weird time capsule. Yes, that is an accordion.
I randomly noticed that there are a lot of very cool things on East 12th street here in NYC. Without further ado (from the west down to the east):
So take a wander down East 12th & let me know if you know of/found something I left off. Huzzah!
Stranger on the 1 train.
(I think she may have realized I took a photo….)
When life gives you messed up Polaroids, make a diptych.
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Roll of Firsts!
First time using slide film; first time using 100 ISO; first time using my Minolta AF-C; first time cross-processing; first time developing by mail (Old School Photo Lab, phenomenal).
Super pleased with the results, and that camera is so small & pocketable it just might become my carry-all-the-time film cam. Click the pic for more. Success!
The art: Eadweard Muybridge, Fissure in Eagle Rock, 1100 feet deep, 1868.
The news: “How the Rock Got to Plymouth,” by Hannah Holmes with photographs by Fritz Hoffmann in National Geographic magazine.
The source: Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, via Calisphere.
Another bizarre Tumblr coincidence! I just got Rebecca Solnit’s River of Shadows, which centers around Muybridge and his motion-capture photography that allowed him to snap sequential photos of a horse trotting (and connections between trains, photography, westward expansion, time & space, etc. It’s a fascinating book). There’s a passage that describes this exact stereo image and BAM! 3rd of May posts it. Weird.
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