I was wandering around with my camera on its tripod when I saw this cat lounging in the windowsill of the old, abandoned stockyard down the street. The cat was patient, and I was able to take my shot.
This photo was taken in Charlottesville, using a sheet of Provia 100f film.
I have shared this photo many times, but that’s because I love it. It is part of my ongoing experiment in large format street photography. The street was somewhat busy, and my camera was already set up to take a photo, so I moved into position, checked the exposure, and took the shot. I wasn’t sure if it would even come out, but here it is in all of its glory.
This photo was taken in Charlottesville, using a sheet of Provia 100f film.
I have this project of sorts where I go into various establishments in Charlottesville with my Crown Graphic and attempt to take a photo. This is the first of these that I've had developed, a photo of an ice cream shop and diner in town. The film is Ilford HP5 Plus, and I want to say this is something like a 4 second exposure.
My cousin got married in October, and my wife and I drove down to Waycross, Georgia to attend the wedding and see family. I bought my Crown Graphic, my Leica, and my digital camera (a Fuji X100F), and used an afternoon to drive around and see if I found anything interesting.
Turns out, I did. Waycross is an old railroad town that, in its heyday, was a bustling, vibrant city. Those days are long past, but you can see remnants in them in structures that retain some of their old glory. These first few photos, to that point, are of an old theater, built in the first half of the 20th century, that has since gone to disrepair. Still, I think its quite beautiful. These two photos were taken on sheets of Provia 100f in 4x5. The scans are good, but they don't do the actual transparencies justice.
Waycross' downtown is quite small, with a abandoned buildings and old storefronts. I took these four photos on 35mm Kodak T-MAX 400, using my Leica M5. The last shot, a self-portrait of sorts, is available in the print shop.
And these last two shots are digital, taken with the Fuji using the "Classic Chrome" film simulation. That car, in particular, is beautiful, and I'd love to see what it looked like in restored state.
For a while, I've been using a Polaroid Spectra and Impossible Project film to do my instant photography. But I was never fully happy with Impossible Project film, and only stuck with it because of the wide format and the fact that Impossible (now Polaroid Originals) produced black and white instant film.
Last month, however, Fuji debuted its monochrome film for Instax Wide cameras, thus providing a more reliable option for wide format instant photography. I picked up an Instax Wide 300 and a pack of monochrome film, and shot most of it during a recent trip to San Francisco. I'm not a huge fan of the camera itself, but I love the format and the cinematic look it provides.
I'll be shooting a lot more Instax Wide over the next year, as I attempt to do an "instant photo a day" project for all of 2018. Until then, there are these Instax Monochrome photos, and I'll be sharing more Instax shots over the next few days.
A little bit of a cliché photo, but I like it all the same.
Camera: Fuji GW670II. Film: Fuji Provia 100F.
Taken while walking along one of the trails near Monticello.
Camera: Fuji GW670II. Film: Fuji Provia 100F.
Not long ago we went walking out in Walnut Creek park here in Charlottesville. As always I had a camera, and as is increasingly usual, I had my Fuji GW670 with me. I only get 10 shots per roll of film in this format, so I had to make them count. And for the most part, I think I did. Film was Fuji Provia 100f, a transparency film.
We adopted a dog. Her name is Rose. And because of my flexible schedule, I spend a lot of time walking her, which is to say I spend a lot of time photographing her. Here are a few of those photographs, all taken with a Fuji X100f and edited in-camera.
Taken during a recent trip to Los Angeles, California, while walking down Pacific Beach and Venice Beach. Shot with a Fuji GW670II loaded with Kodak T-MAX 400 and using a yellow-orange filter.
