farragut west
A nice wide-angle of one of our oddly mesmerizing, brutalist metro stations.
Taken with a Fuji X100T using the wide-angle conversion lens. In-camera monochrome conversion.
c'ville afternoon
I think I've said enough about the time I spend in Charlottesville—I'm there a lot—so I'll just say that these photos are from my most recent weekend there, at the end of January. We took a couple of walks, and in lieu of trying to shoot anything with a theme, I just made a few snapshots of scenes or figures that caught my eye.
That included the equestrian statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. In general, I think these are abominations: neo-Confederate propaganda erected at a time of unvarnished and unrepentant white supremacy. At the same time, they are quite beautiful, lovely pieces of early 20th century statuary. My preferred solution for the figures is to remove them outright, and replace them with parks dedicated to the ongoing fight for racial justice. But, if they have to stay, we should at least let people know that they are propaganda. To complicate the beauty.
Oh, and for those of who care about gear at all, these photos were taken with a Fuji GW670II medium format camera, using Portra 400 film rated at 200. For metering, I used a handheld incident meter.
Backstage
We did a live show for Trumpcast on Monday. I took a few photos in the green room before the show, because that's just the kind of thing I do.
Taken with a Fuji X100T and the wide-angle conversion lens. In-camera monochrome conversion.
Virginia.
Dahlia and Jacob.
DIY, part 3
This is the last batch of photos from the rolls of film I processed myself last month. They are a little different. The film is my usual standby—Tri-X 400—and I used a shorter focal length (35mm lens instead of 50mm). These were taken around D.C., and the last few were on Barracks Row, when I was trying to finish the roll before taking it to the darkroom to develop.
There's no particular theme—these are just snapshots, more or less—but I do like the one where the subject is a guy on his bike. There's a kind of symmetry between him, the man to his right, and the crowd of people to their left in the background.
Bantam King
Shot while having dinner at the aforementioned restaurant. (Yeah, I know, that's probably a little rude.)
Taken with Fuji X100T using telephoto conversion lens. In-camera monochrome conversion.
DIY, part 2
These are the second set of self-developed and self-scanned photos, this time taken using a 50mm Canon rangefinder lens (first manufactured in 1958!). I took a bunch of these while hanging around in the National Gallery of Art, and a bunch more while visiting Berkeley, CA last month.
This next group is from Berkeley and its surroundings. My favorite photo of the bunch is the last one, of the kids. I might turn that one into a print, in fact.
This is how we live
I seem to take a different photo of this mural with a different camera in different light every few months.
Taken with a Fuji X100T. "Classic Chrome" film simulation.
In your eyes
I want to say this is in an alley between 6th and 7th St off of Florida Avenue.
Taken with a Fuji X100T. In-camera monochrome conversion.
DIY
After a year of shooting film and sending it off to a lab to get developed, I've started developing my own stuff, by way of classes and a local darkroom. This also coincided with the purchase I've been building toward for the last few months: a Leica M5, my new rig for daily shooting. I may write about the m5 one day, for now, here are shots from a roll of film I developed and scanned myself. These were taken using the cheap Russian-made vintage lens that I got with the M5. Subsequent posts will have photos taken with different lenses. I think there is a bit of underdevelopment here, and a few of these photos are definitely underexposed. Still, I'm happy that I actually know how to do this kind of work, since now I can start to get better at it.
Abe.
Annie.
Walking in the street.
Bird.
Laundry
On Rhode Island Avenue NW.
Taken with Fuji X100T. In-camera monochrome conversion.
