Konica Auto S2
Mark Rhoads lost his job as a journeyman stagehand when his eyesight degraded so much he couldn’t work. While he waits through the months-long process to get disability payments, he’s making ends meet by playing his hard-worn Sigma guitar on Denver’s 16th Street Mall. Taken with my Konica Auto S2 rangefinder camera, which I wrote about this weekend.
Another Denver Sunset
Heroin in Denver: Photos from a Denver Post Special Project
A life of panhandling on the streets of Denver is brutal, boring and soul-crushing.
Many of those who do it are long-time substance abusers, caught in a vicious cycle: You wouldn’t stand out there 12 hours a day unless you desperately needed heroin, and then only another dose of heroin would get you through another 12 hours.
Angel Gamboeck was one of those stuck in that terrible, seemingly endless circle, for much of the past two years in Denver. A young, once-promising girl from the Wisconsin heartland, she ended up here after a failed move West to seek a new life with her boyfriend.
Read the full story – Fallen Angel: A young heroin addict finds a home in Denver
This is scary stuff and hard to look at, but really amazing work and a frighteningly intimate look at heroin on the streets of Denver. Amazing photos by The Denver Post’s Joe Amon.
Walking in the Rain
Shot for Roll in a Day on Kodak TMax 400 with a Nikon FM2 and Nikkor 50mm f/2.0. See the rest of my roll for more photos of a rainy day in Denver.
(Source: scrollwright.com)
Imperial Herco 620 snapshot toy camera
An antique-mall gem, which I used to kick off writing about the many cameras in my collection.
Cathedral 2
Unique faces anchor the ends of each detailed door arch on St. John’s Cathedral on 14th Avenue in Denver, Colo. Taken with 35mm Ilford Delta 400 in my Minolta SR-T200, 45mm lens at f/2.0.
Cathedral 1
Fresh flowers on a memorial marker in the churchyard of St. John’s Cathedral on 14th Avenue in Denver, Colo. Taken with 35mm Ilford Delta 400 in my Minolta SR-T200, 45mm lens at f/2.0.
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.
