Photos

From Chelsea and Flatiron in Manhattan. Taken on Kodak T-Max 100 film.

This isn’t quite the order I took these in as I was walking; I’ve reordered the photos a bit to make the spacing work out on the Web. It’s easier to hold a camera on its side than a laptop.

Looking at these, it turns out it’s hard to take black-and-white photos of rainbow flags.

The sun’s started going down, so I’ve been taking longer and longer exposures. Now that we’re in Flatiron you’ll see the photos blur a bit from my hands shaking within the exposure.

At this point, the sun had set far enough that I wasn’t able to take photos any more. So I stopped and went out again the next day.

Fin.

All shot in one afternoon, on Neopan 100 Acros.

Some friends and I were working late on September 11 and we saw the Tribute in Light in the distance. We decided to visit it.

I picked up my camera, loaded it with ISO 400 film since it was the fastest I had, and we started walking.

Taken in April 2017. Digitized much later, when friends in the Google Creative Lab reminded me you could do that with film photos 🙂

Camera: Pentax K1000. Not sure about film/exposure, I think I lost the envelope with the info on it when I had them scanned.

These photos have a tortuous history. I took them five years ago, left the film in the camera for a year and a half until I remembered it was there, and had it developed and printed.

I showed them to some friends, who asked “hey have you thought about digitizing them?” Which I did, for two years, and then had them digitized in summer 2019.

Then I forgot what order they were in, so I sat on them again because I wasn’t sure how to make up a believable story about them. Until now, when I thought to look in their envelope and saw that I had a contact print which showed this.

Without further ado:

These photos of my sister’s Hydra painting are the first photos I’ve taken on film in more than a decade. At least my camera’s light meter is working.