The American Southwest II: 35mm color slides
At long last, my second installment of photos and tales from the 2012 Southwest trip with Kate. Above, Utah state highway 261 just south of 95, after the snow. An excerpt:
We headed west toward highway 261 in search of views and on the way to our anticipated stop for the night at Mexican Hat, on the border of the Navajo Nation. The snow came down so hard and fast it was nearly impossible to see the road and I was stuck at about 20 mph for half an hour or so. When about an inch had fallen, the snow stopped as suddenly as it had started and the sun came out, melting the snow on the roads almost as fast as it fell. It nearly skipped the liquid state and turned into billowing steam.
Another Denver Sunset
You can do really neat things with a $1-2 “Color Optical Lens” toy camera. I had heard that, even seen evidence, but doing it myself really showed me there’s no need to buy a Holga when you can do the same thing with $2 rolls of 35mm film and a thrift store camera. Check out these light leaks!
Medium-format photos from the Southwest
In April, I took a road trip through the Southwest with Katchabird and took along a bunch of cameras. I had a wonderful time and got some good frames, like this one looking back down at the entrance road in Colorado National Monument.
I used Kodak Portra 160 film in my Yashica-D TLR camera for these. I already loved the camera; these just made me love it more.
”HOTEL”
Another Fuji Provia slide film shot that really, REALLY came out spectacularly. It’s just seconds after sunset and I underexposed it about 2/3 stop. This is almost exactly as it came out of the camera (but less dusty); I didn’t mess with the color at all. Love, love, love this film.
I wrote more about the place and getting the shot on my blog.
Last Remains of a Dying Day
Taken with Hipstamatic, John S Lens, Pistil Film, No Flash.
The Sky’s on Fire II
Taken with Hipstamatic, Libatique 73 Lens, Pistil Film, No Flash.
Last Splash of Color
Taken with Hipstamatic, John S Lens, Pistil Film, No Flash.
Denver Zombie Crawl 2011
Young and old dressed up in the finest cadaverous rags and painted their faces the color of rotting flesh before covering themselves in ersatz blood and gore to shamble down Denver’s 16h Street Mall in the 2011 Zombie Crawl.
View my complete slideshow (44 photos)
Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs and captions are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
View the complete gallery of 70 striking historic photos
This blog entry is from last year, but it’s enjoying a resurgence we thought we would share.
I -love- these images.
