Everything Street Photography

No pictures yet -- but I was over at my folks' house last night and they had been going through some old stuff. My dad was quite into photography back in the day, then I came along and kind of distracted he and mom for a while...but they were cleaning up and found a camera that someone had given him a loooong time ago. At least 25 years ago. But the camera itself is up to 69 years old -- 1938 is when it was first built (it's a Zeiss Icon 515/2). The thing is built like a tank -- it puts my poor digital rebel to shame as far as construction. And it's so simple!

But the best part...there was a roll of film inside. It almost certainly is dead and won't have anything on it. But, I'm taking it to the lab tomorrow anyway -- I figure there's a 1 in a million chance that the film can be developed and will have some kind of captured gem from the past, from who knows when.

And I'll be getting some new film, too. I'll keep you guys updated with whatever I find.

Oh -- by the way, I "borrowed" the camera from my dad, but I think he realizes that I'm actually stealing it.

This image was taken back in November 2005 and has been languishing on my hard-drive. Taken on Ilford HP5 from memory using a Canon EOS 3000 I have since sold. (The only Canon I ever owned that was the proper colour for a camera - black of course).

Martin L (Not to be confused with Martin K aka spiritwalker)

Well, I'm an idiot. I kept saying I would back up my drives next weekend, and next weekend turned into next month, next year, and here I am over two years later...can anyone guess where this story is going?

ALL of my street photos are gone. The drive is completely corrupted. I've run a few different file restoration utilities on it and they don't see any directory or file structure at all -- nothing. So, I'm going to have to take the drive in to a pro to see if they can pull anything off (for a large amount of money, I'm sure).

This is the one area where all you film shooters will get no arguments from me about the weaknesses of digital...but it was my own fault. The good news is that I do still have all of my hiking pictures from around Arizona and some California...but there are sooooo many others that are probably just gone.

One of my friends said, "Look at the bright side...god's telling you to get a better camera." And in my depression, I might just take that advice...

Hello All,

www.nonphptography.com has had a long history in my bookmarks and is a site I very much admire in terms of content and design. It was therefore with a great deal of pleasure that I recently stumbled across this related blog. I have taken photographs for a number of years now and I am starting to realise that for me, street photography is one of the most interesting and exciting genres of photographic art.

I, and two very talented friends of mine, also post to our own blog entitled Monochrome Brisbane. As the name suggests we post monochrome images of our home city; sometimes as part of a theme, other times as individual images according to our own taste. Some are very recognisable as street photography, others hint of a desire to explore architectural line and form, and yet others are a celebration of the characteristics of light itself.

I look forward to a long and hopefully reciprocally rewarding relationship with Everything Street photography and to celebrate this inaugural post have included “CDs for Sale” an image which I took recently on the streets of my home city.

Cheers,

Martin.

A couple years ago I took a great trip to New York in the winter -- I've posted a few pictures from the blizzard that hit while I was there. But my favorite pictures were a series that I took in Central Park, which was oddly quiet that time of year. Apparently, New Yorkers don't like going outside when the average temperature is only 15 degrees! Here's one of them -- click the title to see the others.