Monday, October 14, 2024

Expired in 1938

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I have a small archive of old Kodak Verichrome roll film I acquired some years ago. The rolls are all exposed and stored in original boxes: ...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Eliott Erwitt

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Eliott Erwitt died today. Here my photo of him peeking into the room before his lecture in Miami in 2014. Taken on Tri-X / Leica M2 I thi...
Sunday, December 8, 2019

Fujifilm photo walk with Fujifilm X-Pro 3 camera + 16mm f/2.8 lens

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Hello All, it had been a while since I posted here...things changed. In the government building where I work, the high security access had ...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Interview with Yamasaki Ko-Ji

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Interesting interview with Yamasaki Ko-Ji, the photographer from Japan whose book "In Osaka" I published on Amazon in 2015: ht...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

DASCO bakelite and the Langoliers

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DASCO was (and the one above still is) a bakelite toy camera from 40s. It is, in essence, a cheap piece of pressed plastic with few litt...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Miami's Overtown

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Overtown is a place just north of Downtown Miami. Its use to be a real black town up until early 60s when the major highways (Dolphin, I9...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

On Pakon film scanner

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Been film scanner operator for ~20 years, I tried many Minoltas, Nikons, Epsons ugly ducklings. I settled on Epson V700 photo for preview an...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Pacific Image scanners

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I recently tested these two scanners from Pacific Image: Prime Film XE and Prime Film XA are also known as Reflecta ProScan 10T and Refl...
Monday, June 27, 2016

"In Osaka": one year anniversary

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Yamasaki Ko-Ji's book "In Osaka", published a year ago, had been sold on Amazon and in stores around the globe exactly (ta-d...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

The Night at Ocean

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This Saturday I've got a chance to stroll the South Beach. The Ocean drive was packed with folks celebrating, flirting, kidding, snappin...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Model A from Missouri

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Univex model A was a camera. A very small camera. Here is one, next to my "Zorki 5": Three ounces of Bakelite with a bit of g...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

118 Kodak Verichrome roll from 1940s

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I received these rolls from a antique dealer in Fayetteville, North Carolina with 2 other rolls and spools of different vintage.The roll in...
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Saturday, August 8, 2015

Brownie Vecta from UK

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I received this camera from the village North of Manchester, UK Small Kodak Brownie Vecta had been in production from 1963 to 1966 Lik...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

"In Osaka" by Yamasaki Ko-Ji at Leica Store Miami 08/20 at 7PM

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Join us on Thursday, August 20, 2015 for a book presentation: "In Osaka" by Yamasaki Ko-Ji. Publisher Emir Shabashvili will presen...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

11x14" Prints on Arista EDU Ultra RC paper

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I'm out of Ilford MG IV paper and switched to Arista EDU Ultra. All I have now is 11x14 inches. Last weekend I printed a few frames fro...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Bessa L / 25mm / Red filter : new darkroom prints

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Up until now I had just the digital scans and digital prints for this series of downtown street photographs from Oct 2008. Last week I pri...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Summer pattern

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I am really enjoying working in darkroom... Here is few more of the recent prints:
Friday, July 10, 2015

"IN OSAKA" by Yamasaki Ko-Ji

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So it happened: the >book is out . Yamasaki Ko-Ji is a photographer from Kobe, Japan. He documents his daily life with pictures taken m...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Printing in dark room vs film-to-digital workflow

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I started in darkroom in my early teens, somewhere in 68 or 69. Back then, everything was simple: not too many graded papers available, one ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

"In Osaka" by Yamasaki Ko-Ji

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Yamasaki Ko-Ji is a photographer from Kobe, Japan. Here is a dummy of his book I am working on right now. Printed on laser printer to check...
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Monday, December 1, 2014

Leica Store Miami Instagram Contest

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From Leica Store Miami: During the festival we will be running an Instagram contest. Share your best image that embodies the spirit of str...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Framing pictures for Miami Street Photography Festival

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Thursday, November 27, 2014

Miami Street Photography Festival is next week!

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Monday, November 3, 2014

Testing Kodalith in Dektol

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I always wanted to try the extreme, absolute contrast; so here finally comes (ta-daMM!!) a Kodalith. Kodak Kodalith is a very high contrast...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

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Counting change in Rain...love the grain of expired EK5222
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

ORWO N74 Plus in TMax

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ORWO is a trade name for a range of film products from Germany, from the company named Filmotec . I the 70s, I use to shoot ORWO slide film ...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Jesus 24

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

The Street Photographer's Manual by David Gibson

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Received it yesterday, seems to be nice book...not a manual at all, more like non-stop obscure rumbling accompanied by pictures -- just wha...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Overtown

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Olympus XA, expired Kodak Double X cine film in HC-110. It was hot as Hell.
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Я-Стрит, или как фотографировать в Яндексе

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конспективненько: Я-Стрит это такое занятие вроде уличной фотографии, только вместо реальной улицы используется виртуальная, расположенна...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Streets of Russia in Yandex Panoramas

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Yandex is the internet search engine Russians use. Yandex Street Panoramas , part of Yandex maps , is a close match to Goggle's street...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Current content

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Friday, June 13, 2014

Rain and shine, night and day, June and May...

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Some of my recent shots in no particular order. Downtown, Opa-Locka, South Beach...enjoy (:
Monday, June 2, 2014

35mm compact camera craze

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Disclaimer 1: GAS or G(ear) A(cquisition) S(yndrome), originally known as Guitar Acquisition Syndrome. I went through all stages, includ...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Leica Camera Russia blog on my Found Film project (Russian)

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http://blog.leica-camera.ru/2014/05/15/19242/
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

How to get rid of stuff and stay sane in 5 easy steps

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Things. Stuff. Junk. If you like me, i.e. the one who keeps things, you know what I am talking about. I had a small house and this problem ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Film advance lever

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At the Houston's FotoFest a young photographer asks, pointing to my Bessa (above): - you always push this little thing when you snap a...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Walking Downtown again

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+ some more Downtown shots I took last month:
Thursday, January 23, 2014

My fellow Russians, the time is NOW!

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Scholarship grant available for Alex&Rebecca Webb workshop in Miami, January 2014

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here: http://goo.gl/cd5uIe I have been through the workshop like this and can recommend it to anybody who is into human-interest photogra...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Chinese demonstration in Miami

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My friend Wenbo invited me to this brouhaha related to recent Jimmy Kimmel's stupid joke .
Friday, July 26, 2013

A Bigger Globe

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Do you know that inside the Earth there's another, a much bigger globe? I leaned this long time ago from "The Good Soldier Švejk...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Free professional inkjet prints on Ilford papers using Canon pro series printers

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"...Exclusive to United States residents, Try My Photo gives you the opportunity to have one of your favorite images printed for fre...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Shadows of shadows, shells of shells

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Here they are, 116 format rolls I recently received from Oregon. Agfa D6 rolls on the spools with wooden stem, bigger then the 120, nitrate...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

July: shine and rain, rain and shine

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portion of July's work...mostly Bessa L with 25mm and red filter, some Bessa R3M with 28mm; all Tri-X at E.I.3200 in TMax.
Sunday, July 7, 2013

Independence Day

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Few frames from morning SoBe walk with Hector Isaac . Bessa L/25mm/Dark Red filter/Tri-X @ E.I.3200 in TMax developer.
Monday, July 1, 2013

Overtown

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

People Mover

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Riding People Mover in Downtown Miami, taken with Olympus XA camera on Tri-X film at box speed.
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Morning at Haulover Beach

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Haulover is my favorite beach. In the morning it is usually deserted.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Memorial Day's Night at Ocean Drive

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Leica M2, shooting TMax 3200 at E.I.12000, accompanied by Hector Issac and Wenbo Wang
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