Valentine Bouquet
Our granddaughter visited over the Valentine’s Day weekend.
She gave her grandmother the yellow bouquet, and I gave the orange/red one which were then combined into one vase.
The CR200 slide film renders these colours to perfection.
Perhaps not exact, but perfect none-the-less.
Cloud Mountains
Looking over at the Olympic Mountains from Victoria with clouds like mountains.
It was the only sunlight to be seen in any direction but at least there was some.
Plus-X Pan Expired 1979 and Electro 35 GS
Looks like I forgot to reblog this post from 52 Rolls. It is my Roll 7 for 2016 and features film that expired 37 years ago shot on a camera that is about 45 years old.
This roll of Kodak Plus-X Pan which expired in 1979 came to me via a giveaway draw at Utah Film Photography. Check out Shaun Nelson’s post for more and better images from the bulk roll. And while you are at his website, have a look around at a lot of other great film photography.
In my response to the giveaway I said I would shoot the film in an Olympus XA2. However, I found that the film was a bit tight in the very cool vintage cassette it had been loaded into and would not pull through in the XA2 which only has one set of teeth for the sprocket holes and they were slipping. So, I reloaded the film into a Yashica Electro 35 GS, a robust rangefinder from the early 1970s with an excellent lens. I took Shaun’s advice and metered it at ISO 100.
I first loaded the film just before Christmas but…
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Spring Reversal
Our flowering plum has been out in full bloom for more than a week now.
I made this image on Rollei CR200 a colour reversal (slide) film that I have not used before.
It has a bit of a yellow cast and is quite grainy, but I really like the look of it and minor adjustments in Lightroom deal with the colour as needed.
I think that I should probably shoot it at ISO160, at least in this camera, as it seems a touch underexposed and that might help with grain too.
The Elan IIe is working very well, other than needing the door taped shut, but a part is on the way and I will fix it.
Tripping III
Yet another photograph from my test roll in the Olympus Trip.
This is part of Ross Bay west taken from the storm drain that shows up so much in these parts.
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Soaked in Beer
Being the dad of a young musician who started playing pro gigs in bars in grade 9, I spent several years as a roadie/chauffeur getting to know the back doors and often back stairs to bars and clubs and halls, some of them dives and others very swish.
That was nearly ten years ago and these doors opened into something called the Jellyfish Lounge. Who the hell would want to drink in a place called that? Just imagine what might be floating in the cocktails: a siphonophore or a ctenophore or even a box jelly. It was a pretty horrible place, with a preponderance of 18 and 19 year olds, many barely able, or unable, to stand up by midnight, or much past nine. Which answers the question about who would drink in this place – those drunk and young enough not to notice the occasional jelly slipping down the gullet.
The Jellyfish Lounge was all tarted up in white, including cushion covers, carpets, walls, ceilings, “stage”, everything. I think the decorative scheme was tried as some kind of exorcism to rid it of the ghosts from a former life as one of the worst dives in town called The Churchill. I only drank there a couple of times in my own youth – it was a place where you sat with your back to the wall, preferably near the door, and only moved to leave or to dodge a fight.
With a very faint frisson of nostalgia, I noticed the other day that this building has reclaimed The Churchill name. The exorcism wasn’t working so maybe they have accepted it for what it is; a space with a long history of stabbings, fists, theft, broken pint glasses to the face, broken dreams in the head and a small ocean of vomit. For me it will always be a dark, semi-subterranean, windowless bar with terry towel table cloths, soaked in beer, and indoor/outdoor carpet, soaked in beer, and sleazy customers, soaked in beer.
Good luck with the rebranding/retrobranding guys, I hope it works out this time.
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