I took a new (to me) lens to San Francisco, the Canon FD 50mm/1.4, which I haven't had a chance to test before going (which I in hindsight realized was not very wise). I shot 4 rolls of film on the trip. Eagerly awaiting the scans to come back from the lab...
Let's try a new format for photography / storytelling.
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Lately, I've been thinking about what it means to have come from the equator. Imagine growing up with no seasons, except 'rain' and 'monsoon' and 'hot' and 'hotter'. Everything around you is green, all year round, never brown. Lush is not just the word they use in magazines about tropical travel, but it's the only world you know.
Image of the day is Spiky, an in-camera double exposure on film.
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Near me there are no cacti large enough that I can use them for textures. On a business trip to Berlin in March, I found a couple of hours to check the Botanical Garden and the desert glasshouse there had these amazing cacti. This is one of the images that came out of it.
Accidentally underdeveloped these negatives by a LOT by using a 1:127 instead of a 1:31 solution of Legacy Pro L110. But Tri-X is a forgiving stock, thankfully!
There’s only this life, this light
on earth; there’s no darkness or death.
We’re all already on the seashore,
and I’m one of those who hauls in the nets
when immortality swims past a shoal.
[Arseni Tarkovski].
(2024).
iPhone camera, digital processing, Polaroid i-Type film emulsion lift on watercolor paper.
Check out the person I met at the farmer's market last week! (They were dressed like this because they're a CPA, and they help you with your money, hence gold, haha)
(Yashica Mat 124G, Portra 160, developed in Bellini C-41 chemicals and scanned on Fuji Frontier SP3000)
Some guy posted on photomarket that he had a film ’lot’ to sell. It was.. just four rolls. Not forty. Clearly we have different ideas of what a ‘film lot’ is.
I feel like sometimes random people just change your life in so many ways, like the girl who gave me a film camera in 2003 when I visited Kolkata, India for the first time. i haven't spoken to her in 20 years, but she gave me the gift of having my memories in still film photographs for the rest of my life
I took a photo of my mum's cousin at work. Turns out she runs Singapore's best rated wanton noodles shop! Very proud of her family for what they've built