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Top and Bottom

Top and Bottom, originally uploaded by lisbokt. – click to see full-size photo

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.

Afternoon Nap

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

I shot this while hanging out in NYC’s Battery Park City on my visit with my pal Lisa.

This was an exercise in patience and plotting. All day I had been seeing bicycles, which for inexplicable reasons are a subject I like to shoot. I kept photographing them, but at no point was it “the one I wanted”. A bicycle here, a bicycle there- but boring! None of them were good (at least I think, I can usually guess when a film image is good before developing it). And then, exhausted and sun-spent, I hung out in the shade by the marina for an hour or two. There was this Russian girl also hanging out under the same big tree, she was eating her lunch and chatting on her phone for a while. She kept noticing me and my camera and any time I would point it her way (even if it wasn’t even pointed at her, she’d grimace and put her hand up. The sun moved, our shady spot moved, so we moved too. She kind of half-moved the bicycle and it fell into this heap here. Yes! Fantastic! I got one shot of it and she noticed (thinking I was shooting her photo, perhaps?) and said some rather not-polite things to me in Russian.I said something polite back to her. “велосипед?!” she said back to me. I’m not sure she believed what I said.

Pumps

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

Woohoo! My test roll of my Hasselblad turned out great.

I’m pretty excited about it. The experience of shooting on the Hassy is significantly different than any of the other cameras I use (of which, there are many.) I am going to scan the rest of the images properly over the next few days, but here is a sneak peek!

That’s what F/4 looks like on a C-Series lens.

Spiral Staircase

I took quite a few photos today. You’ll have to come back over the next few days to see them all! I’m pretty impressed with myself.