My latest camera acquisition is a little Nikon point and shoot from the early 1990s. It is pocket-sized with a sharp 28mm len. I consider it a companion of sorts to my Leica M10, something to keep on me when I’m shooting with a digital camera. Anyway, I put a roll through it last month, and these are a few of the keepers. I used Kodak T-Max 400 film.
After scanning roughly two month’s worth of developed negatives, I found that I had only taken four images worth sharing. Here they are, from around town and the surrounding area. They were all taken using a Yashica-D medium format camera. The color photos were taken using Kodak Ektar, the black and white photos using Ilford XP2 Super.
Some quick descriptions.
The first photo is from a recent visit at the Lincoln Memorial. The second is of a re-enactor who was presenting at a festival in Gordonsville, Va. The third is of one of my favorite signs here in Charlottesville, for a convenience store that as far as I can tell does not sell either subs or pizza. And the fourth is of some apples at a local orchard.
You know, I’m always just walking around Charlottesville and taking pictures. Here is the latest batch from the last month or so of walking and living and exploring. I’ve been using a Yashica-D camera and this was Ilford XP2 Super film.
Laundromat over off of JPA.
Wayside Fried Chicken, a much-loved gem of the Charlottesville food scene.
The basement of this building contains the best wine shop in town.
Daedalus Books is this massive and magical warehouse of used books. One of my favorite places in town.
The Farmer’s Market at the Ix Art Park.
The water tower over in Woolen Mills. A little vignetting from the lens hood, I think.
Bought a new camera a little while ago and have been trying to use it as much as possible. Here are some highlights from the last few weeks.
A VW van I saw over at Barracks Road shopping center.
Little Star restaurant on an early Saturday morning.
A very lovely Oldsmobile, seen in my neighborhood.
Durty Nelly’s Pub over on Jefferson Park Ave.
The now-defunct Greyhound station.
Someone got a haircut pretty recently.
The boy and I went to a few more car shows last month. These are the best photos from both of those outings.
This first batch are digital.
And the rest are on film.
And here is the boy.
A few photos from the recent removal of the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville. Taken using a Leica M10-D and various lenses.
Taken around Charlottesville on an Olympus OM-1 using Fuji Superia X-Tra film.
This Memorial Day, I went to one of the cemeteries in town to photograph those graves where flags had been placed to honor veterans. This exercise ended up being a little more interesting than I anticipated (turns out we have veterans of the Spanish-American War buried here) and I thought I would share the (good) exposures from the outing.
Pretty self-explanatory. These are photos from around town, taken on my digital Leica, made with black and white in mind.
5th Street Waffle House
Lambeth Field.
McIntire Park.
Buford Middle School.
Warm weather and vaccines has meant the return of car show season in central Virginia. My son and I went to one such car show last month, at Eastside Speedway in Waynesboro, Virginia, just over the mountain from Charlottesville. I shot a roll of film and a lot of digital pictures as well. You can see the digital stuff on my Instagram. Here is the film. I used Cinestill 50D, which is converted motion picture stock, and a Yashica Mat 124G camera
