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this is one of the last frames on the roll of kodak 160vc i shot in sonoma last weekend. i took it while everybody else was in the car waiting for me. i saw this barn off in the distance and decided to use the o-o-f foreground to frame it. when i was looking through the viewfinder, i wasn’t sure if it would make or break the image. it’s atypical fo me to frame a shot like this. what do you think?
negative scan, kodak 160vc, 6×7. pentax 200/4.
this past weekend ryan and i took some friends to a pair of wineries in sonoma, chateau st jean and gundlach-bundschu. gunbun is 150 years old and under the management of a descendent of the original owner. st jean has a 96pt reserve chardonnay that i liked (despite not being a fan in general of chardonnays), but what really impressed me is the malbecs they have now. i decided to join the st jean wine club, in fact.
last weekend after i met jared, i spent the following morning walking around downtown los angeles with my pentax 6×7. i’d never really spent time in downtown before.
i started near the gehry-designed disney concert hall and walked my way through chinatown, then down through central city.
one of the things that caught my eye on my walk was the all the textures and patterns. i decided to make it a theme in the photographs i took. it’s something you can find in every city, but what makes it interesting to me is the sheer scale of patterns in larger cities.
mustard growing in pescadero, california.
i took this on the recent large format outing in pescadero. this field of mustard was growing in a lot just off the main drag in town. a short walk from the gas station / taqueria we had lunch at. scan from kodak e100vs.
shooting in color makes me want to upgrade to a scanner that can do full sheet scans. i want to start including the film edges, especially in 8×10.
this weekend i met jared and his wife on saturday. we introduced ourselves to each other, and i went over the research i’ve done so far. he didn’t have much to add, but they both have some good corrections for my notes. i’ll be contacting his father to see what he knows. we had a laugh at the end when we realized that all of his schlachets are his height, and all of my schlachets are my height.
it reminds me of meeting a distant relative years and years ago. shane. she lived in kentucky with some of my grandfather’s relatives. i now have distant relatives of my own (daniel, david, anita, elan, jared, josh, joel, ….) but you know, i have no solid connection with them aside from a last name. i am hopeful that we are all not-that-remotely linked. it will be nice to fill in the missing pieces about the family. questions like, who are these other schlachets, and why didn’t i know about them, or them about me?. i may solve these questions. genealogy, it turns out, is about obsessively investigating history.
i shot this last weekend. kodak ektachrome e100vs. i used my jamin-darlot lens.
so spring is basically here. time for new things to be borned.
i’m off this weekend to go meet jared. bringing my notes. taking the laptop with a copy of
some of dad’s slides.
in my mind, i’m building up this rendezvous to be something really special. but as i’m winding down from an exciting and busy week at work, i’m realizing i shouldn’t expect anything. i’m just hoping to not have car problems.
anyways.. 2008 is already a big year for me. i hope it’s big for you too.
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