Color

I don't shoot much color film these days, in fact, never really have done much with color. It's mostly because I love B&W, but also has something to do with the fact that I've never been very good with color film. Despite that, I put some color into one of the Leica's recently and found that the color images worked much better for what I was doing that particular day.

This is one of the images. Shot on Kodak Portra 400 (the new stuff), it's gotten me thinking about what I'm going to do for Uruguay next year. Actually, a lot of the shooting I'm doing now is to tweak my process to make sure I've got all the technical stuff covered for the trip. So I'm experimenting a lot right now with different cameras, lenses, film and process. It's been quite fun for me to get out with nothing in my head and just shoot. Keepers are far fewer but I'm honing my skills sufficiently to make sure there are less mistakes while I'm on an important shooting excursion.

Laguna Beach

This has been an image a long time in the making. We don't get clouds all that often here in sunny Southern California, at least not as often as I would like. And I need clouds to make this image work.

This is an image of persistence. I've been going back to this site for a number of years and this is the first image I have that has really worked for me. It's taken with a Chamonix 45N-1 and a 110mm lens with FP4+ just in case anyone wants to know. I plan to have this one drum scanned and make a large print. Can't wait.

Fort Point

In April I took 10 days and just photographed whatever came my way. A one camera, two lens set up, let me worry about the images and not about what camera I was going to use. It was a bit liberating actually as I just focused on images.

I came away from that trip with about 60 rolls of 120 film, all of it B&W and all shot on the Mamiya 7. I don't get chances like this very often so I tried to make the best of it while I had the opportunity. It may be another 4 years before I get to do something like this again.

Fort Point, in San Francisco, is a gravitating point for me. I simply love the place and I usually try to make an image or two there while I'm in San Fran. They usually don't turn out this well.

I've wanted to make this image with a LF camera for some time but never had the chance. So I tried it with the Mamiya and the 43mm and I like it a lot. What I had envisioned actually worked for a change. I can't say that for many other images from this trip though. But I'll take this one and be happy.