catching up

It has been a while since I posted photos on here so this is a bit of catch up. Most of these are black and white darkroom prints, and a couple polaroids.

The first few were taken in Poland with a Leica IIIc.

Sadly she did not catch her train. At the central train station in Warsaw.

A toy store in Warsaw.

A cottage just outside of Warsaw.

This photo of Half Dome at Yosemite was taken with a Tachihara 4x5 field camera that I had to return after just a short time of use since it had something wrong with it. I'm still on the lookout for another one.

A creepy looking door at the San Francisco Armory.

This is another camera I have been using lately. It's a Yashica Y16. I almost always have this tiny camera with me. You can't get the film cassettes anymore, but it takes 16mm film, so I've been spooling it onto the cassette that was with the camera when I found it.

The last two photos are polaroids taken with my land camera.

polaroid

My acquisition from the suitcase of inherited cameras is a Polaroid Land Camera 250. The negative battery cable was broken, but after an easy battery mod it was working again. It's taken a bit of playing around to get the exposures right. It still has a tendency to underexpose, but I think I have a hack worked out. This second shot is a darkroom print from my Canon FTb. I've had this camera for almost a year now, but don't think I've posted anything from it yet. This was taken in Golden Gate Park.

burning man continued

Below are the rest of my Burning Man photos. The first five are scans from prints, the rest are scans from negatives. You can see the first set here.

burning man

Here are my first Burning Man prints. These were taken on a camera I found at a sidewalk sale a photography store nearby had. I really wanted to shoot medium format at Burning Man, but did not want to risk roughing up my Autocord. It is a Balda Gloria made in 1934 in Dresden, Germany. This folder shoots 6x9 medium format (120) film. The bellows had a few pinholes in them, but nothing some RTV sealant couldn't fix. The trickiest thing on this camera is that there is no focus. You simply estimate the distance to your subject, and set the lens to that. Luckily I found this site and made my own paper rangefinder.

lost southeast asia photos

Found some other photos I neglected to upload. These are from my Southeast Asia trip. I also scanned a good amount of my negatives from the trip that can be found here.

Traffic in Bangkok, Thailand. The skytrain can be seen above.

This cow was grazing in Duc Hoa, Vietnam, just outside of Ho Chi Minh City.

From a trip on a row boat around Ha Long Bay, in northern Vietnam.

One of the many islands in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.

A beach in Sihanoukville on the coast of Cambodia.

italia

These have been sitting on my hard drive for months. From a trip to Italy I took back in May. All of these are from Rome.

Inside Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.

Taken in Rome, Italy from the steps of the Capuchin Church of the Immaculate Conception. I highly recommend checking out the Capuchin Crypt. Sadly photography was not allowed inside.

Looking down from the window of our Bed and Breakfast in Rome, Italy as the sun was setting.

Sant' Ivo Alla Sapienza

Sfera con Sfera inside the Vatican courtyard.

Next up, Burning Man prints.

dark history

Some photos from the darker parts of my travels in Cambodia. Nearly half the population of Cambodia was wiped out under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.


A few of the skulls in the Buddhist stupa at the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia.

Scan of a print on Ilford Fiber paper. Shot on Kodak Tri-X 400 pushed to 800. Scanned in color with a few tweaks to try to recreate the print as it looks to the eye.


One of the irrigation rooms at Tuol Sleng Genocide Prison in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia.

Scan of a print on Ilford Fiber paper. Shot on Kodak Tri-X 400 pushed to 800. Scanned in color with a few tweaks to try to recreate the print as it looks to the eye.

chambok village homestay in cambodia

This set is from Chambok, Cambodia. We had a homestay for one night in this village near an eco tourism center. The center coordinated homestays with a few families in the village. We also went around a school and temple in the village where I got some of these photos. I'm in the process of contacting the eco village to have a copy of these photos sent to the village.


These girls were hanging around the temple in the village. This is one of my favorites from the trip.


Classes were on break when we visited the school. The students were coming back into class and these guys were eager to pose for the camera.

Da told us he was the only student who spoke English. He had learned it from his dad and was happy to practice with us.

A boy who is too young for school, but was following his mother around.

This is our homestay host and her son.

first photos from southeast asia

I've been slowly developing and printing rolls from a trip to Southeast Asia I recently took. Other than a point and shoot, I took just my Minolta Autocord. Other than a few minor problems it held up during the trip, although it's still scratching some of my negatives. I think I got some good results though. I've been spending much time in the darkroom the past few weeks getting my favorites on paper. Below are a few from Cambodia. There will be more in the weeks ahead.


This photo was taken at Phnom Pros in Kampong Cham, Cambodia. There was a family of these guys and I think this guy was putting himself between us and the youngins. Luckily he didn't give me rabies.


This is part of the Bayon Temple Complex in Angkor.


This was taken on out way to Sihanoukville in Cambodia. There are two or three pigs in the cage on the back of the bike. They did not look very happy, but perhaps they are still too small to be dinner.

squared

Been using my Autocord TLR shooting both black and white and color film. I'm really liking this camera. The waist level finder is like using the best lcd ever made and I've found I can hand hold it still for stupid long amounts of times. Gotten sharp images down to an 1/8th of a second. After the jump is a set from the past few rolls I've shot.

He might be orange, but we call him Blue. My roommate's cat was relaxing then perked up at the sound of the buzzing self timer on my autocord and froze perfectly still for the half second exposure.

Arts Market at Civic Center.

train east

Finally got photos from my train trip out to Chicago uploaded. You can view the set here on Flickr. I've also created a set of my favorite shots.