Outskirts is the sort of follow-up, companion book to House Hunting, featuring more apartment complexes and dead ends, and fewer homes than the earlier book, much like the outskirts of my hometown and probably yours too. As a good little Hido fanboy, I jumped on the 2021 edition without a second thought.
Continue reading “Todd Hido – ‘Outskirts’”A brief visit to Lake Worth
One weekend in late December, 2021, or early January 2022—the days do run together—my darling, adorable wife and I took a drive out to Lake Worth, northwest of Fort Worth, Texas, and took Watercress Drive along the north shore for a bit, with a brief stop at Sunset Park to pick up some kindling (Hana) and make a few photos (me).
Continue reading “A brief visit to Lake Worth”Todd Hido – ‘House Hunting’
I came aware of Todd Hido’s House Hunting work probably close to 20 years ago. I remember seeing it in college, I think, or maybe grad school, but I wasn’t really too hip on ordering photobooks online back then, so when Nazraeli Press announced a third edition of the long-out-of-print and wildly-expensive-on-the-secondary-market classic, I jumped on it.
Continue reading “Todd Hido – ‘House Hunting’”Jason Lee – ‘Galveston’
Jason Lee’s Galveston was a long time coming. I preordered as soon as I heard about it, within days of the announcement on the @filmphotographic Insta, if I recall, and it was delayed several times by the pandemic. It’s here now, and it’s pretty much everything I expected.
Continue reading “Jason Lee – ‘Galveston’”20 shots from the LC-A for no good reason
After 1/26 and 1/27 comes 1/28, with which has no obvious association with an obsolete film format, and so is just another Friday… While shooting some for 126 Day and 127 Day, I also happened to be testing an LC-A that I had taped closed and written ‘Stuck Shutter’ on some months or years ago, and, well, the shutter wasn’t stuck after all, and since I shot pretty much the same stuff with the LC-A as I did with the Agfamatic 200 and Kodak Brownie Reflex Synchro, well, why not share some…
Continue reading “20 shots from the LC-A for no good reason”11.25 frames for 127 Day
The only bad thing about 127 Day is that it follows immediately after 126 day for 2 of the 3 times it rolls around every year (1/27 follows 1/26, June 12 is a month before July 12, 12/7 is a day after 12/6). Shooting a whole pack or roll of film in one day is hard enough without trying to do it again the very next day.
Thankfully, the old, obsolete 127 format is merely 12 frames…
Continue reading “11.25 frames for 127 Day”19 pictures for 126 Day
126 Day is a day to celebrate 126 format film and cameras that happens 3 times per year: January 26 (1/26), June 12 (12/6), and December 6 (12/6). I missed 12/6/2021 (and 12 June, 2021, and many prior), and when I remembered, I quickly loaded some Foma 200 into an old Kodacolor II cassette to shoot right away (as well as some Pro Image 100 into a Kodachrome X cassette for 1/26).
Since I’m working most of the day today (1/26/2022), here’s most of the roll of Foma 200 that I shot over several days in late December and early January. Enjoy!
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