I found these lips painted on the side of a building in downtown Seattle. I liked the peeling paint. Another shot with my (cheap plastic) Holga on Kodak Portra 400 film.
Lips
The Backside of Buildings
This is downtown Seattle near the ferry terminal. The buildings are all facing 1st Avenue … I liked the fire escapes. This was taken with a Holga (a cheap plastic film camera) and Portra 400. The single element plastic lens (like the old Kodak Brownies) does okay in the middle of the image, but gets a little blurry as you go to the edges.
At The Beach
When I want to try out a ‘new’ film camera, the first thing I do is run a roll of film through it as fast as I can. Usually, I spend an hour or so down on the waterfront, shoot the roll and drop it in the mail on the way home. Lately, I tried out a Pentax 645N. This is a fairly large camera that shoots 120 film (this was Kodak Portra 400). I really enjoyed it, but found a streak on the negative (still trying to track down if it was a light leak, a scratch or an issue with the scanner at the lab). The nice thing about larger size film is you can crop a bunch off and still have decent quality… here, I cut off the left third of the image to eliminate the streak.
Sunset and Sailboat
Photos of sunsets and sailboats are pretty common and a challenge to make unique. I thought the warm colors of this boat anchored off of the Port Townsend waterfront made this image worth sharing.
Shot on Kodak Portra 400 … this is an image that would have been noticeably more sharp with my digital camera. I like the feel to this one, though.
Wild Rose in Autumn
As a photographer, I wished that I had been able to isolate the red rose hips of these Sitka rode bushes … but it was nice to have a sunny day, and if it meant that I had to deal with sunlight on background, I couldn’t complain too much.