Morning Walk, a brief Agfa Precisa 100 CT review

After some rather disappointing results with Cross Processing the Agfa Precisa 100 CT, I resolved not to shoot the second roll I had until I got some proper chemicals… That day finally came in late 2016, and so I shot my second roll one Saturday morning, on a nice, long walk around the neighborhood, and around the house shortly after.

tl;dr (not that this is going to be that long anyway): it may be a bit contrasty, it goes a bit red/gold in early morning light, and it turns a horrid green when x-pro’d, but Agfa Precisa 100 CT (apparently repackaged Fuji Provia 100F Professional (according to Dexter)) is a great, relatively inexpensive, slide film, and I’d shoot it again. Continue reading “Morning Walk, a brief Agfa Precisa 100 CT review”

“We’re all skulls”

Thanks to Jon Wilkening and his Monday Morning Dispatch for 1/8/2018, I watched the American Master’s episode on Richard Avedon recently. At 1:00:10, Julius Lester says, of one of Avedon’s portraits of his elderly father

We’re all skulls. And I look at that photograph and I see his skull. And then I wonder, what if we went around and related to each other as if we were all skulls, and we’re all going to die, and whenever we die, it’s going to be too soon… Everything else is irrelevant. Race, religion, gender, all the squabbles we get into is irrelevant to the fact that, in the end, we all look alike: we’re all skulls.

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Eduardo Paves Goya – ‘Several Hours Ahead’

Eduardo Pavez Goya‘s several hours ahead is a sort of travel zine, featuring selections from the 27 rolls of film he shot over a two week period in Tokyo back in October 2017. If you’re familiar with Ed, it’s almost a print version of one of his fun Shoot Film episodes, and the zine itself is beautifully made.

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