Film advance lever

At the Houston's FotoFest a young photographer asks, pointing to my Bessa (above):
- you always push this little thing when you snap a shot, what it for?
Me:
- its a film advance lever. I have a film camera.
He:
- yeah...film camera...do you still have a screen in the back so the shot can be checked?


dixi

Walking Downtown again

+ some more Downtown shots I took last month:

July: shine and rain, rain and shine

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.

Independence Day

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

Overtown

Ocean drive's nights in September

The film has its limits; when the light is as weak as it usually is at the Ocean at night its failing to record anything at all, even at the sensitivity as high as 12500.
Still, people at night are open as never during the day and I just keep shooting, hoping for the sudden glimpse on the subject, just like in the picture above and below...

"Nash Chelovek v Maimi"

"Nash Chelovek v Miami" can be translated from Russian as "Our Man in Miami".
It is a heading of an article on my photography and other things just published in "Kazan" magazine. "Kazan" is a paper publication on art and culture; it is based in my native town of Kazan, Russia (Tatarstan province). Here is the link to the web version of the article:

http://kazan-journal.ru/pages/item/391-nash-chelovek-v-mayami-ob-emire-shabashvili

and here is the pdf:

http://emirco.net/photo/projects/Kazan/kazan.pdf

The photographs below are the few published in the issue

Happy reading!

Winwood in June

Winwood is a neighborhood just North of Overtown; colorful, strange and beautiful. It has Art and Fashion sub-districts. Out of two, I like the Fashion; primarily because of the people. It is full of small humble shops swarming with customers during the day, at the same time, it is still Winwood -- with all the colors (which I proudly ignore with my B&W setups) and all the murals/graffities...plus, of course, the famous signature of the place: the emptiness. I've been there last May with the folks from Miami Street Photography Club, had a chance to use my Bessa L and my Nikon F5; all in all the time well spent

The last few days of decent weather...

The hot and humid South Florida summer is around the corner; it is becoming increasingly hard to stay in the streets for a long time. Shot on Tri-X 400 with Bessa L/25mm. The last two are night shots on Ilford Delta 3200 film exposed at E.I.8000 in Leica M2 camera with 21mm Voigtlander lens and developed to E.I.12500 in Tmax Developer (13 min at 74F/25C)

April's rain, April's shine

Here are images from the few rolls I shot last week. Most of them shot on Tri-X 400 with Bessa L/25mm, some on Ilford HP5+ with Olympus P&S, including the one on top. Enjoy:

April in Miami

first batch of April's catch...these are taken on Bessa L/25mm and Olympus Stylus Epic. The film is Tri-X as usual, but I started getting tired of Tri-X's grain and now shooting Ilford HP5+, the film I love dearly for its lower contrast and beautiful grain.

"Streets of Downtown", pictures

The yesterday's event turned out great; the weather was nice, not too hot and it was windy which I like very much; I enjoyed shooting with you guys for good 3 hours. I brought my Pentax K200D with 20-30mm Tokina zoom, very unusual to me: I now shoot only B/W film and forgot when I used digital in the streets. That was a challenge! Colors jumped out of shadows, distracting my visual thinking -- I used not to think color and suddenly I should! Anyway, somehow I survived this and at the end switched to my trusted B/W setups with sigh of relief. Here is few more street pictures and then few more of you all, shooting and talking...enjoy:

2PM

Downtown, late March. Bessa L/25mm/Tri-X at ISO 1600

Miami Avenue's Sun

This had been taken last week with my usual short-lens street setup: Bessa L/25mm/Tri-X

Like a Bird in a Cage...

Caught this scene getting off the bus on the way from Little Havana the other day. Bessa L/25mm/Tri-X at ISO1600

Little Havana Forever

Taken on Calle Ocho with Bessa L/25mm Scopar lens on Tri-X film

Drops

Again, Bessa L/25mm/Tri-X at 1600 in Diafine

Dry Season's Rain

Last week, Bessa L/25mm om Tri-X rated at ISO1600

One day in February...

The last batch of street B/W shots right out of my darkroom. These are Olympus Stylus Epic P&S camera and some from Bessa L/25mm. All shot in February/late January on Tri-X and developed in Diafine, my favorite soup. Enjoy:)

Wire and Flag

Voigtlander Bessa L camera; 25mm Snapshot Scopar lens; Tri-X shot at E.I.1600 and developed in Diafine