Happy 2012! I thought I’d start the year off right, with a photo of course. 2011 kind of got in my way and didn’t let me ART like I wanted to, so I’m going to try and do better this year.

We haven’t exactly had a big winter (yet)– not that I’m complaining at all. But this little guy managed to hang on this far into the season, usually it’d be covered under a lot of snow by now.

Holiday Lights, originally uploaded by lisbokt. – click to see full-size photo

I hope all of you out there have a nice holiday season this year and that 2012 will be good to us all.

Danger, originally uploaded by lisbokt. – click to see full-size photo

Some more from NYC!

I grabbed a roll randomly from my frighteningly large stack of undeveloped film. This was unlabeled – and hey! NYC! Fun surprise.

Marching, originally uploaded by lisbokt. – click to see full-size photo

I spent the weekend hanging out in Madison with some good friends of mine- Lady Fox, Nic, and ABMann. Turns out that nobody was really in Madison for the weekend aside from us but that made wandering around downtown easy and quiet.

I like these.. they’re for parking bicycles but I think they look like dancing stick men.

Fresh Squeezed Lemonade, originally uploaded by lisbokt. – click to see full-size photo

Another cross process medium format!

I shot this in Bellows Falls, Vermont, on my way to New York from Sonja’s wedding. I had a little bit of time before the train arrived so I stopped and got lunch from a little café next to the train station. I got a rhubarb lemonade- it was pretty awesome.

Afternoon, originally uploaded by lisbokt. – click to see full-size photo

Woo! I made it into the photos from Vermont. These had to wait a little bit because they are medium format, E-6 (Slide) film. I decided to develop all of the medium format colour film myself, which was fine… except I’ve never developed colour before! So I had to learn. I did a test roll, figured out what I did wrong, and then tried a real roll- which, naturally, was cross process! (All I had for colour rolls were slide film. Go figure)

Anyway, this was taken while I was visiting with Sonja the day before her wedding. It was a lovely little spot out in the middle of nowhere and I had to capture it with the Hasselblad.

Another image from the Chaika in New York City. I like the diptych here, of both ends of the building. I really love these buildings- I took a LOT of photos of them.

I also took a lot of photos of the marina. It was kind of fun scanning this set of film- I took a lot of photos with the chaika that I also took with other cameras. I think when it is all done I will do some comparisons. Same object, different camera.

Hey look! It’s something from the Chaika! (Definitely one of my favourite cameras I’ve ever used)

A very different part of New York City than I found in my other photos, but just as exciting in my opinion. I shot a LOT of film on the Chaika while I was in New England. I like how random it all is. How piecemeal it is.

This is, obviously, Times Square. Hopefully my other photos demonstrate that it is kind of its own little world in NYC and not really like the rest of it.

A different sort of film from my NYC visit

double exposure! I have to admit, I was kind of disappointed by this roll– I overexposed most of the images. But I like this one! I took this in a combination of walking through Brooklyn and then taking the train randomly around town.

Incidentally, it is also cross-processed. Ektachrome! Yeah! I love it so much.