My friend Lauren had told me about a group of people that get together on Thursday nights at a local high school to use their darkroom facilities for personal photography, leaving the commercial work behind. While it sounded like a really nice group of traditionalists, I for some reason thought of myself somewhat removed from simple b/w processing. I’m not sure why… but I didn’t feel the need to “go out of my way” when I do so much with scanner/photoshop.
However, with the colder months coming on, I decided to sign up for the Fall Quarter workshop. Next week will be our last and all I can think about is, “When will Winter quarter start!”
It has been a real test of commitment to consistently shoot film, but more difficult, to put four hours aside to do nothing but make pictures.
Just. To. Make. Pictures. In a dark dark room.
Image: Corey and I walkin’ around downtown on a Sunday afternoon. Shot with HP5 at 400 using Canon EOS and 16-35L. Printed on Kodak paper with an Ilford 4 filter.
scanned darkroom print
canon eos 35mm film camera w/ illford hp5 b/w film
canon eos film rebel w/ canon 16-35L and ilford hp5 400
the morning after
canon eos film rebel w/ canon 16-35L and ilford hp5 400
not good looking but i like the lines
canon eos film rebel w/ canon 16-35L and ilford hp5 400
canon eos film rebel w/ canon 16-35L and ilford hp5 400
leaves are wet here.
canon eos film rebel w/ canon 16-35L and ilford hp5 400
canon eos film rebel w/ canon 16-35L and ilford hp5 400
canon eos film rebel w/ canon 16-35L and ilford hp5 400
at the bus stop
canon eos film rebel w/ canon 16-35L and ilford hp5 400
canon eos film rebel w/ canon 16-35L and ilford hp5 400
this afternoon i decided to take advantage of an increasingly rare sunny day and walk my absentee ballot to the king county administration building where the city installed a “ballot box”.
afterwards, i walked around downtown, taking photos (none of which really turned out) and then made my way to barnes & noble. collecting a stack of magazines to read, including the new issue of ‘W’ with brad pitt’s images of angelina, i made my way to the cafe to order myself an americano. the barista says, “you look familiar”. i laugh, slightly embarrassed that i was was about to take advantage of their cafe to flip through $200 worth of magazines with my $1.80 drink in a setting that was rather anonymous only a moment before, and she then asked, “what is your name?”. i told her, to which her response was, “oh. right.”
what? what was that? so i ask, and she says, just one word.
“flickr”
must say, made me feel pretty rad.
image: canon 30d w/ sigma 10-20mm
canon 30d with sigma 10-20mm
spent the afternoon walking to the ballot box at the king county admin bldg to hand deliver my absentee vote.
yay!
canon 30d w/ sigma 10-20mm
a walk around the waterfront… taken from pike place market
on my walk home from work… i get to trek over the university bridge.
every time i travel this bridge, i am totally overwhelmed with how exciting it is to live in a city. i once overheard a conversation between a chatty passenger trying to convince the bus driver (and i suppose anyone else eavesdropping on their conversation) about how he considers seattle to be a “world-class city”.
since then, i’ve found myself thinking, “you know puj, that passenger was right!”. i think about this often on my way home. along my walk, as i exit my office building i have a beautiful view of mount rainier, after which i take a double-leaf bascule bridge (don’t worry, i didn’t know what that meant, it was one of my wikipedia discoveries) and then continue down a tree lined winding road through a mountainbike stunt park into the city’s amazing skyline which my home faces almost too perfectly.
its nights like this that make me wish i could thank the man on the bus in person… for helping me realize, discover and appreciate the amazing city i am fortunate to be living in at the moment.