*Lantern Abstraction*
Minox 35 + Kodak TMax400 @800
I am fascinated by those paper lanterns in front of Tin Hau Temple. I’ve tried to shoot them many different ways (with more coming), and this is a more abstract version of Monday’s photo highlighting the shadows.
*Tai Hang Nap*
Minox 35 + Kodak T-Max 400 @800
Tai Hang is wonderful because life is on the streets. Which means that the national Chinese sport of napping everywhere is in full display!
*Masked and relaxed*
Minox 35 + Kodak T-Max 400 @800
Until recently I only used the Minox for a couple of months. I quite liked the results I got, despite the fact that you cannot focus, but the unreliability of the camera was too frustrating to bear. Now that it’s fixed, I’m rediscovering why I loved it so much. It’s about as small as it gets, very simple to work and while you have limited control over exposure, it nails exposure pretty much every time. At 800 ISO, it’s reactive enough that I can shoot from the hip with good accuracy, which is what I did here.
*The Shadow of the Lamps*
Minox 35 ML + Kodak T-Max 400 @800
I had a rough summer in 2016 with a massive round of surgery and moving to Hong Kong from Shanghai. My dad had previously given me a small camera that was gifted to him in the 90s (when presents were still part of business culture), a Minox 35 ML. I really liked this manual camera, tiny and inconspicuous and I had it with me on all of my early walks in Hong Kong. I shot close to 10 rolls before finding a lab I liked, and only then did I realise the camera was faulty and half the rolls were either unexposed or partially unexposed and fogged. I stopped using it. A few months ago, Vish at Camera Film Photos told me it could probably be fixed and so I handed it to him. A few weeks later it was fixed, an the first roll I shot through it was this roll of T-Max 400. I love walking around the city with the camera in my pocket and just going through a roll in a couple of weeks instead of one sitting. This is the best shot in the roll. I wanted to capture the shadows of the lamps in front of Tin Hau Temple in the late afternoon light, and this old masked woman peeked just as I was shooting.
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