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  1. The Charles

    Two weeks ago I took a bag full of cameras to Boston to shoot some film for the Frugal Film Project. I got half way though things and had to leave to go home for something. It was the day after the 4th of July and I wanted to walk along the Charles River by the Esplanade.

    Today I went back. I also stopped at Acorn Street and wandered around Arlington and Berkeley Streets near where I used to go to school. I shot a roll of Kentmere 100 in my Lubitel for the Frugal Film thing. I also had most of a roll in my Nikon N90. I loaded it at Sail Boston last week and only shot a few pics before it was too dark for film. Finally, I had a roll in my dad’s Pentax K1000 that I loaded in… April? May? I don’t remember. I finished all three rolls. 

    When I got home I took those three rolls and three other rolls that I finished over the last two weeks and sent them off to get developed.

    While I was in town I also shot a bunch of stuff with my Digital camera. My Nikon Z5. Here come some highlights.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55404544780

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55404153271/in/photostream/

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55404153991/in/photostream/

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55404546150/in/photostream/

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55403199007/in/photostream/

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55404279528/in/photostream/

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55404548725/in/photostream/

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55404332219/in/photostream/

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55404551560/in/photostream/

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55403203392/in/photostream/

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55404159466/in/photostream/

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55404551665/in/photostream/

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55404161886/in/photostream/

    #AcornStreet #Boston #CharlesRiver #nikonZ5 #photography
  2. Recreated

    I think it was Father’s Day in 2006. I had a nice little Kodak point and shoot camera and I wanted to use it so I drove into Boston and just walked around. I had an idea to stand at the base of the Hancock building and point the camera straight up. That didn’t quite work the way I had hoped, but when I moved just a little bit I got this:

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/3508496301/

    It might still be my favorite photograph that I have ever taken that doesn’t have Jen or Harry or Bellana or my niece or any of my nephews in it. I like it.

    Every time I get a new camera I think, “I’m going to try and recreate that picture” and then it never works out as well. My Nikon D90 gave me a bunch of really good pictures, but nothing close enough to the accidental original. I just couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong.

    Ever since the film obsession began a few years ago (when my sister found my father’s Pentax K1000 while cleaning out his dresser and asked if anyone wanted it and I suddenly realized that I really, really, really wanted it) I’ve been wanting to go into Boston and see if I could pull it off on film.

    Today I went into Boston to see if I could pull it off. I had the K1000, the Lubitell 166, and my digital Nikon Z5. I was messing with the K1000 when I accidentally figured out what I needed to do. I didn’t move to my left, like I thought I did. I moved to my right. All three cameras tried it out. Obviously we have to wait to get the film developed to know how they did, but the digital I can already see.

    Close enough?

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54547114851/in/datetaken/

    All I need now is the airplane to come back.

    #Boston #camera #cameras #hancockBuilding #hancockTower #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photography #recreation #reflection #z5

  3. Photos

    It’s been a while but I did something mildly creative this morning. Not really, but a little bit.

    For the first time since August I filled up a back pack with cameras and went outside a-shootin’. Digital, film, the works.

    More often than not when I start feeling the photo-takin’ need I head to the ocean at sunrise. That’s what I did today. As sunrises go it sort of blew chunks. The forecast I read last night said it would be clear skies at sunrise today. It was not. Not even close. There was a little gap between the horizon and the cloud cover that sort of let me see the sun when it rose, but it was a pretty underwhelming view. Thanks to our friend the Nikon Z5 with the cheap-ish 85mm Chinese made lens I can show you what I’m talking about…

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242277189/in/album-72177720333420003/

    At least the waves looked cool. They were about as high as this little corner of the Atlantic Ocean gets.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242042321/in/album-72177720333420003

    There’s our friend, Mr Sun. It was trying its best to break through.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242277649/in/album-72177720333420003

    My sunrise stop this morning was at Salisbury Beach which is on the Massachusetts side of the state line. I was planning on starting at Hampton Beach in New Hampshire, but I needed to stop for gas and I knew there were a few stations on the way to Salisbury so I wouldn’t have to go out of my way. Also, Salisbury is closer to home so it gave me more time to take care of things before the sun came up.

    After a few minutes on the beach I wandered around the area a little bit looking for things to shoot… and I ended up more or less shooting the same things that I almost always shoot when I go there. Oh well.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242185648/in/album-72177720333420003

    Someday I will be there when these lights are actually on.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55241136417/in/album-72177720333420003

    Artsy chair pic alert:

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242279429/in/album-72177720333420003

    Lame life preserver pic alert:

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55241136747/in/album-72177720333420003

    Every now and then the sun would break through the clouds and we’d get a few seconds of glorious golden hour light but the clouds kept getting in the way and blocking the sun. It was a little frustrating.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242043196/in/album-72177720333420003

    After a few minutes of wandering around I got in the car and drove up to Hampton Beach. That’s two towns North across the New Hampshire state line. I stopped at a usual fishing boat view. Again, the sun kept breaking through and going away. I think I got some good light here using one of the film cameras, but not so much using the digital.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242186228/in/album-72177720333420003

    As usual, let’s all say hello to the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plan before it blows up and melts everyone.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242186418/in/album-72177720333420003

    Out on the beach itself, would it surprise anyone to learn that this pic was a total accident? It probably shouldn’t.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242278729/in/album-72177720333420003

    The seagulls were my friends today. They mostly didn’t run away from me.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242187043/in/album-72177720333420003

    Again, when the sun cooperated the view was fantastic.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242279654/in/album-72177720333420003

    I left Hampton Beach and headed South to Plum Island to say hello to the Merrimack River and the Plum Island Lighthouse. I made the obligatory stop at the airfield as well.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242044771/in/album-72177720333420003

    By this time the sky was pretty blue. The clouds were losing the battle.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242442925/in/album-72177720333420003

    Is the water at Plum Island the bluest water on Earth? It’s gotta be in the running, right?

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55241138947/in/album-72177720333420003

    I mean… seriously… just look at that.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242045386/in/album-72177720333420003

    I don’t know anything about this boat except that I shoot it every time I come here.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242281674/in/album-72177720333420003

    And in closing… the Plum Island Lighthouse… which has to be the most underwhelming lighthouse in the world. I mean it’s not even as tall as the trees that surround it. It’s also not even on the water. It’s a little ways down the street from the river. How effective can it be?

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/55242190423/in/album-72177720333420003

    There you have it. A few highlights from this morning’s wanderings. I also shot some film. I had a black and white roll in my FG-20 that was loaded back in August and still had a few shots left (Kentmere 400). Last night I put a roll of Lomography 800 into Dad’s K1000 and a roll of Kodak Gold 200 into my medium format camera. I finished all three rolls and mailed them off to the lab to get them developed. Hopefully I won’t have to wait too long to share the film version of this masterpiece of a post. Be on the lookout.

    Will there be another photowalk tomorrow? Depends on the weather. I am off work again on Tuesday too so there could be something then, again if the weather cooperates. Hopefully it will be better than today but who knows.

    It felt good to just go outside and shoot stuff, even if it was really cold on the water. Summer is coming. Maybe some day soon I’ll be able to repeat this experience without wearing a winter jacket. That would be sweet, huh?

    #AtlanticOcean #merrimackRiver #nikonZ5 #photography #photowalk