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Dec. 17, Where is my Dream 100 ISO Film?
These are from a morning walk to the post office. Shot with my Canon IVSb2 and Voigtlander 21mm. Developed in FX-39 II. A morning walk in the 17° cold pretty much takes serious coercion for me to attempt. Avoiding a line at the post office when I had an international package to ship was coercion…
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Dec. 16, 6 Frames with my 27mm Lumenbox Lens
Long time readers will have seen shots similar to this before. When I first got my Lumenbox, Jorge Otero (inventor of the Lumenbox and other amazing cameras) sent me a 27mm Lumenbox lens to experiment with. I crudely adapted it to fit a Barnack rangefinder by drilling out a body cap and gray tacking the…
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Dec. 1, 14 Frames of November’s Odds and Ends:
Yikes! I was supposed to post the odds and ends from the end of November yesterday. Instead, here they are a day late and a dollar short, there are more than I expected for what I recall as a somewhat photographically lean month. I’m over 65% sure that these have not been posted before (maybe…
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Nov. 19 Five Odds and Ends
From the recent roll of Kentmere 400 I shot with the Canon IVSb2, 50mm lens and Auto Up close up lens, except that most of these were with the Auto Up not attached.
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Oct. 16, Pods, Grass and Prickly Pear with the Canon Auto Up:
I recently acquired an old Canon Auto Up VII close up attachment to fit my Serenar 50mm f/1.8 lens, here are my first attempts with it. Shot on Kentmere 400 at box speed and developed in Artemisianol. The Auto Up is quite a cool device. Each one is lens specific although mine is designated to…
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Nov. 15, 3 from the Archives
These are from Dec. 10 of last year and among the first of my film photos after a hiatus from taking pictures of about 30 years. Back then I primarily took photographs as a way of documenting my art work. In those days shooting slides of your work, Kodachrome in daylight and tungsten Ektachrome under…
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Nov. 1o, A Tree Sampler,
I love taking photographs of trees and I hate taking photographs of trees. To be clear, I’m a great admirer of trees, but sadly, my depictions never seem to do them justice. The very three dimensional and extremely textural qualities of trees almost never translate well to the cropped two dimensional frame of the photograph.…
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Nov. 7, And a Few Frames of the Less Upgraded Side of Midtown Reno,
Not that these are really seedy places, they’re just a little less cared for than some of the newer refurbished establishments. I think the photographic quality of some of these shots is quite a bit less than the others, that flat, glaring, hazy sky got the better of me on some of these. Like the…
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Nov. 5, 5 Frames of Upgraded Midtown Reno,
A few years ago midtown Reno was a pretty seedy place, mostly filled with porn shops, strip clubs and dive bars, but the city, in a campaign of urban renewal, put a real effort into attracting more upscale businesses that would attract both tourists and locals. These days many of the old establishments have been…
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Nov. 4, Flickr Explore!
I hate to be braggadocios, and I realize that in the real world this is of no consequence at all, but Flickr picked one of my tub shots to be in Explore this month. In reality, the shot was probably picked by an algorithm or a Russian bot, but I’m still excited! See what I…
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Nov. 3, 5 Frames Inside with the Serenar 50mm and CMS II
These were from the same roll as yesterdays post, shot with my Canon IVSb2, Serenar 50mm f/1.8 lens and Adox CMS 20 II at ISO 12 and developed in Adotech IV. I was a bit surprised that there was enough light to get some indoor shots shooting at ISO 12. I think these were all…
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Nov. 2, Learning to See with a 50mm Serenar and Adox CMSII
Typically I don’t get on all that well with 50mm lenses, I find their field of view just too narrow and constraining, but yesterday I was thinking about why I took up Photography in the first place. Not so much to take nice, or even interesting photos, although that’s certainly a factor, but more to…
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Oct. 26, 6 Shots of Houses with Adox CMS 20 II
A few more from the same roll as Long Shadows in Reno, as these have long shadows as well I suppose they could have been in that post, but it seemed like these stood apart a bit from the shots in that post and maybe deserved their own post? In any case, these are just…
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Oct. 16, Long Shadows in Reno:
I know I’m biased so you can take what I’m about to say with several grains of salt (hmmm, on further thought maybe that applies to everything I say) but I think that often there is a really a beautiful quality to the sunlight in Reno. I’ve lived a few places and have always been…
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Sept. 23, A Walk Across MidTown Reno with Adox CMS 20 II
It’s been a while since I’ve taken any photographs with Adox CMS, to be honest I’d forgotten what a beautiful film stock it is. The crispness and clarity of negatives shot with CMS easily rival those of my favorite film, Washi S. I don’t think I’ve shot CMS at ISO 12 before, and considering the…
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Sept. 21, 6 Houses In My Neighborhood
These are from the same roll of HP5 Plus as this post, shot with my Canon IVSb2 and 21mm Voigtlander lens. Pushed to 1600 in Cinestill Df96 monobath. Nothing fancy here, just some houses. On some of these I brought the contrast up a little and the clarity down quite a lot. I enjoy the…
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Sept. 19 The Eastern Side of My Neighborhood with Some Ilford HP5 Plus Pushed to 1600
Yesterday was another smoky/hazy day with a strange flat light, but I was determined to get a few shots of the neighborhood. I’ve never had amazing luck with Ilford’s HP5 Plus (400) but I recently saw some beautiful shots on Jim Grey’s Down the Road blog (a blog which I love, I also enjoy his…
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Sept. 13, And a Few More Photos of the Southern Tier of My Neighborhood.
My route was very similar to that of my post on Sept. 10th, but this was a roll of Rollei Retro 80s shot at box speed with my Canon IVSb2 rangefinder and Voigtlander (Cosina) 21mm lens. These turned out a little thin, as I was trying to determine how many rolls of film I could…
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Sept. 1, Oh no! Not More VA Photos.
Sorry, when I’m out for a short walk or I’m basically just testing some film or a camera the local Veteran’s Administration is one of my favorite subjects. It’s not just one building, but a campus that spans a couple blocks. To be honest, I’m as fascinated with the VA parking structures as I am…
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August 23, Some Photos of Overpasses
From the same roll of yesterdays shots of buildings. Shot on Film Washi S with my 15mm Voigtlander (Cosina) Super Wide Heliar on the Canon IVSb2 rangefinder. Developed in Artemisianol (sagebrush). I suppose these aren’t very exciting at all, but I’m a bit fascinated by the way they cast shadows and how light plays on…
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August 21, Back to an Old Favorite
I must have an extremely short memory, because after I shoot a few rolls of other films I forget how much I love, love, love Film Washi S sound recording film. Shooting Washi S always feels like coming home to me. I hope it doesn’t go away for good! Yesterday was the first time I’ve…
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