Farragut
I think I was just taking a short walk around the square when I noticed how blue the sky was and decided to snap a photo of the monument.
Camera: Leica M5 using the Canon 35mm f/2 LTM lens . Film: Fuji Provia 100f.
"Open"
Taken while walking home from the movies (we saw John Wick: Chapter 2).
Camera: Fuji X100T . Edited with VSCO for iPad.
union station
At some point in January—I have no idea when—I took a long walk around the National Mall and toward Union Station. I'll post the rest of the photos from that walk eventually. For now, here are three shots of the station. The last time I photographed this area, it was nighttime, which made for some interesting long-exposures. This time, I had light and shadow to play around with. Of the batch, my favorite is the last photo, as I think it shows just how ornate and imposing the station looks.
Camera: Fuji GW670
Film: Tri-X 400, lab developed
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.
