Trip to Nashville

Last year I took a trip to Nashville Tennessee to see miss Laura Partain. I brought a few cameras with me and some film. But I realize that I didn't take as many pictures as I hoped.

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American Airlines

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A view from Above

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The shaky landing... the interesting thing about landing was that it was late in the afternoon when the airplane I was in had come gliding above Tennessee, however, by the time I landed it was dark.

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This is a view off Laura's street.

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This is a vase in the garage turned patio that leads to the backyard. After a few days in Nashville, we embarked on a road trip to Knoxville TN and we met this nice lady at The Waffle House:

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At Kean Coffee

Lately, I've been thinking about taking less photos and being more intentional about shooting film. I mean, film is relatively expensive and it takes time to aquire, use, process, and scan. I still carry about 2 cameras with me at all times, I just don't hold it up to my eye everyday.

The following photos were taken a month or two ago on a weekend. With the Mamiya RB67. I've been shooting Ilford FP4.

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Kat and I at the coffee shop.

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Strangers at the coffee shop. (Actually, they're married.)

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Having a camera around is always going to be fun. I'm just going to be taking less photos for now. Things in my life are moving around and I need to catch up first.

Film Palettes

Food, I love food... I think everyone loves food. Its a means to its own end, it sustains and nourishes me. It can be pretty delicious, sometimes even so delectable that I'll crave certain foods every now and again. I've known a few friends who take this fondness for food to another level, becoming somewhat a connoisseur of sorts of a particular variety of beer, coffee, burger, or what have you. I tend to ask them the most about what would be an enjoyable place to eat those particular foods. After having a meal or a drink with them and figure out relatively, what their palette preference is, I begin to build my own.

I've started the same process with film. Lately I've been shooting Fuji and Ilford trying to develop a “taste”, a palette for my film preferences. I'm still getting to know these films, this is one of them:

Fuji 400H

From the first roll of Fuji 400H I've ever used

I've heard some people describe Fuji 400H as being comparable to Kodak's Portra 400ISO. Portra is known for its pastel hues while maintaining saturation, bright highlights, clarity, grain, and ability to capture great detail. In this image, we see a structure being lit by a setting sun. It is brighter and has higher contrast values than what I would expect in Portra.

From the first roll of Fuji 400H I've ever used

In shadows, Fuji's 400H has a decent amount of detail. I love how less saturated the mid-tones can be.

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I think a few kids rolled these two snowballs up.

Portrait of Jason Slavin

A picture of Jason Slavin in Fullerton California.

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Echeverias

Here are a few pictures of echeverias:

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