*Temple Door*
Ricoh GR1 + Kodak T-Max 400
Ever since I started photography as a serious pursuit, I’ve been fascinated with doors. Not just any door, of course, but distinctive doors. If you go through this blog you will find many examples of doors, and the fascination continues. I can’t quite explain it. Anyway, here is the door to a Chinese style temple in Bangkok’s Yaowarat area. Even though it’s anything but canon, I like that my silhouette can be seen in the bottom part of the photo.
*Two Elephants*
Ricoh GR1 + Kodak T-Max 400
As I was wandering around the Bangkok Chinatown on this hot and sweaty day I stumbled on this building. I found the mural quite fantastic and so Thailand that I had to take a shot. Really pleased of how it came out.
*Don’t Mess With the Law!*
Canon A2 + Ilford FP4+
Looking back, I probably did not ever have a single roll as successful in terms of good / meh shot ratio than that single roll of FP4+ I shot in Dublin in June 2013. The weather was fantastic, and I spent a good amount of time walking around the Trinity College campus. One of the things that caught my eye was this copper talking what I assumed was the guard, framed by these two massive columns.
*Barbershop Paraphernalia*
Canon A2 + Ilford FP4+
A few weeks ago, having been immersed in my xpan shots for a while, I started revisiting older film photos that might benefit from a 65×24 framing like that of the xpan. I found this picture of a barbershop window quite adequate for that framing, that I call fauxpan.
*Lost in Translation*
Ricoh GR1 + Kodak T-Max 400
Sai Kung really is a place apart in Hong Kong. There are lots of stores there that would not survive anywhere else in Hong Kong, selling organic wine, or bulk foods with no packaging. As I was walking past this butchery store, I was struck by this Chinese man trying to decipher a French poster detailing beef cuts.
*Dublin in a Sphere*
Canon A2 + Ilford FP4+
I can’t for the life of me remember exactly what I shot here. I remember it was a sunny day in Dublin, and I think it was a silver sphere in a shot window but looking at the photo I’m not quite sure. Still, there’s something properly surreal about this (undoctored) photo, so I thought I’d share it.
*Stiff Salute*
Fuji TX2 (XPAN) + Cinestill BWXX250
I must admit I wasn’t overly impressed with the Cinestill BWXX250. The film was not contrasty enough for my taste, and very grainy for a 250 ASA film. Still, from the roll of BWXX I shot in Paris, I kept that one because of the composition, the pantheon at the horizon and the long afternoon shadows of the trees over the Jardin du Luxembourg.
*Panthéon*
Fuji TX2 (XPAN) + Cinestill BWX250)
I got some gorgeous weather in Paris for a February month when I was there, and had my XPAN with me at all times. I walked a lot and this shot of the Panthéon in the 5th arrondissement was one of my favourites.
*Chinese Medecine*
Ricoh GR1 + Ilford FP4+
As we were wandering around in Sham Shui Po for the street photography workshop, I spotted this vertical sign for a Chinese Medecine store. There’s not a lot of good opportunities to do vertical compositions with the XPAN and I thought this was perfect. I waited a while for someone interesting to walk by, but no one did (I still shot two frames, but they’re crap). The irony is that 10 minutes later I went back with the GR1 and immediately got this shot, which I really like.
*Masked*
Fuji XT2 + Kentmere 400
So our assignment on this street photography workshop in Sham Shui Po was to get one portrait and three good shots. I (barely) got that from three rolls, which says a lot about how much I have to progress in my street photography. This (as you will undoubtedly have understood) is the portrait I got. I like the subject, the composition makes no real use of the wideness of the shot, but one step at a time !
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