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.
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.
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.
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!
3rdofmay:
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.
Crazy Tumblr Coincidences
This post about photographer Lee Friedlander showed up on my dashboard between these two posts from Erik Friedlander, a fantastic cellist and Lee’s son!
Bonus coincidence: I once went to see Erik play in NYC the same week I went to see a Lee Friedlander exhibit at MoMA (where a photo of Erik was on display and when I put the relation together) and Lee was in the audience, camera around his neck.
I hugely regret not talking to him.
Shuttered Gas Station. Bronx, NYC. February(ish), 2012.
Street-view it for ColorVision! If I were a squatter I’d live in there. Seems like more and more places are abandoned and vacant in my neighborhood, kind of lame/scary, but makes for some nice photos.
Some shots from a walk through the woods (well, park) today in my neighborhood.
I used old manual focus lenses on my Canon DSLR with one of those cheapie adapters. The wide angle is a Chinar 28mm 2.8 & the telephoto is this old Nikon 135mm 2.6.
OMFG (it’s there). 10th Ave & Little West 12th Street, NYC. Summer 2011.
Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim, Kodak T-Max 400.
My trusty uke.
Shot with a Polaroid Sun 660, Impossible Project PX680 film.
Homeless on the Boardwalk. Atlantic City, NJ. 25 Dec. 2011.
