out and about

Snapshots from around Charlottesville. No particular theme, just things I thought were visually interesting.

new hampshire, again

Whenever I travel somewhere, I take photos on my digital camera and I take photos on film. The latter always take awhile to get developed and scanned, which is why I’m just posting them now, over a month after the primary. If you’re curious, I use a Plustek Opticfilm 8100 to scan my 35mm film, and an old Epson Perfection 4870 Photo to scan my medium and large format film.

oceanfront (on film)

I almost always have two cameras on me — one film, one digital. I shared the digital photos from my Virginia Beach visit last week. Here are the film, taking on a Yashica Mat 124G medium format camera with Ilford XP2 Super film. I think black and white is perfect for the beach on a winter morning — it captures the starkness of the environment. Also, these aren’t just random shots; they are in a sequence. A little journey, so to speak.

lobby day

I went to the big pro-gun protest in Richmond on Monday. I wrote about it in the context of the history of gun rights, and I also took pictures. Some of those photos are on film and I’ll share them once developed and scanned. But others were digital and I can share them now. These were taken outside the capitol grounds, on the streets and corners that were crowded with gun enthusiasts, most of them carrying weapons.

For most of the time I was there, I had my Yashica Mat 124G around my neck, and it was interesting (and funny) just how many attendees recognized the camera and wanted to chat about my photography gear. As someone very invested in cameras as tools and aesthetic objects, I can see the overlap between gun enthusiasm and camera enthusiasm, and in a weird way, talking to these guys about my camera helped me better understand their attachment to their guns.

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Update! I shot a roll of film during the event finally developed and scanned it. Here are those shots, which I like quite a bit.