Here’s my first color roll of film with the little Poketo Slim Angel Wide Angle. These turned out exactly as I had hoped and it’s so amazing to see the difference in the light between NYC and LA. I love NYC, but look at the February weather in LA.
A few months ago I found this red Lomolito sitting in a cabinet in my studio. It still had about a dozen shots left on it so I took with me to the farmer’s market at Grand Army Plaza and took some shots there as well as in Prospect Park. Some of the ones turned out pretty well. I find with these disposal lomo cameras you get a lot more grain on the photos which I like, but the color are less unpredictable and saturated as your standard Lomo. Regardless, I think you get four disposals for about $12. If you put the little colored lens over the flash it is supposed to put a filter on the images. This worked best with the green one while the yellow filter made everyone look really sick.
Here are a handful of photos taken with my Lomo Diana. They’re all from Half Moon Bay – one of my favorite places on Earth and home to my favorite meal on Earth: The Dungeness Crab Sandwich at Barbara’s Fish Trap.
It’s our last Winter in New York City. The first snowfall of the season is always the best. It’s so beautiful out. No one seems angry or agro right now – just lots of people out walking around, catching snowflakes on their tongues and pulling kids in sleds. Cars drive slowly and are courteous. The city seems soft. It all changes 24 hours later when everything turns slushy and grey, but for that first little bit you forget where you are. It’s that perfect kind of snow like soft confetti that sticks and mounts up perfectly. I’m looking forward to taking Jack out for some sledding in the AM – his first time. I’ll miss this next year. So, I figured I’d dust off the tripod and head across the street to Prospect Park to take some pics.
My dad grew up swimming and surfing on Muizenberg Beach in Cape Town and it’s still one of the best places you can swim in the World except for the numerous shark attacks. I came across this great photo of Muizenberg’s colorful changing rooms on Flickr. The photo credit belongs to Wayne Champion.
I managed to get out of work at a reasonable time and got to hang out with Jack and Mindy in the Park early this evening. I love dusk. It’s the best time of day. I love it so much that we made it my kid’s middle name. It was a perfect almost-Fall evening in here in NYC. It felt cold and the park smelled like trees and grass and not gross bbq, garbage and soda. We lay on the grass for a bit watching the planes go by as Prospect Park is right in the flight path of planes landing at La Gaurdia in the early evenings. I’ll miss a lot about NYC. Prospect Park (anytime but during bbq season) is right near the top of the list.
William Abranowicz
Art + Commerce is asking various people from all walks of the creative world to choose their “favorite” image from their impressive Image Archive. I was happy to be asked as I am a big fan of many of their photographers. William Abranowicz’s series of photos from an “Island in Maine” was a no brainer for me – choosing that one photo was a little more difficult, but everything about this one I chose is everything I am looking for in my life right now. Visit the Image Archive at Art + Commerce.
foosball table outside of Bar Tabac
I took this pic outside of Barbes on Court St. I love this old table. I used to love Bar Tabac until I got really sick from eating there one night.
the old NY Transit Authority logo
We took my son to the Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn today. It’s nice to see what the subway used to be like before it got disgusting, although the “new” F trains are nice. At some point the trains went from being rather beautiful with soft benches to the institutional looking beasts they’ve become today. Anyway, it’s a worth a trip – but there is basically no air conditioning which made us hurry through. Some shots below.
nice train from the 40s - look at the fans
When I was young my grandfather let me use his old Pentax and then showed me how to develop the photos. I was hooked forever. I’ll never be anywhere as good a photographer as he is and I wouldn’t be anywhere as good a person without having him in my life. The guy is 92. He’s amazing. He’s such a talented guy and, one day, I am going to scan all his photos and try and post them for everyone to see. He’s pretty reserved with his work. I saw him last week in Vancouver and he told me he’s going to be packing it in in the dark room due to being too old to stand around for that long. It made me sad and figured it was as good a time as ever to document what’s in this his dark room.
He built the dark room in a closet between his bedroom and bathroom. He has loads of wires running in and out of the room and he’s always making new tools to help with developing process. I missed working in the dark room this time with him, but we had a good chat discussing some “tricks” he’s learned on his new Lumix Digital which is a fun toy, but he told me digital will never give him the experience and the love that film has. His name is Derek, we call him Pop, some call him Cooksie. Check out the full set of photos right here.
Copyright © 2004–2009. All rights reserved.
RSS Feed. This blog is proudly powered by Wordpress and uses Modern Clix, a theme by Rodrigo Galindez.