11x14" Prints on Arista EDU Ultra RC paper

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 from 2012 and they came out fine. The prints are somewhat more neutral compared to Ilford (I use LPD developer in 1:4 dilution) and the image takes longer to appear in developer, but otherwise the paper is great. The office scanner I used does not do the prints justice, but that is what I have for this bigger format.

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

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 printed them in darkroom, they came out good; better than expected, better than digital!

Summer pattern

I am really enjoying working in darkroom... Here is few more of the recent prints:

Counting change in Rain...love the grain of expired EK5222

Current content

Walking Downtown again

+ some more Downtown shots I took last month:

People Mover

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

28:22

Yesterday I run in Downtown Miami in a company of 25000+ people. My time is 28:22, which is about the same as the last year (27:40) when the photograph was taken and at least 5 minutes better compared to 2004, first time I run the race. .

Walking Downtown

Olympus XA/Tri-X at box speed in TMax developer

Olympus XA again

I switched few things last week: went to TMax developer from Diafine for Tri-X and stopped pushing the film; I tried again little Olympus XA which had been sitting on the shelf for the last 2 years. So far I like both changes. What killed my interest in XA last time was Ilford HP5+ at E.I.800; it was not very good combo. Tri-X @ E.I.400 is much better.

Winter

Leica M2/28mm/Kentmere 400 @ E.I.800 in Diafine

November Witch In Downtown Miami

November 31st, Olympus Stylus Epic/Tri-X at E.I.1600 in Diafine

Ii's coming

Three Graces

Taken downtown last week with Olympus Stylus Epic camera on Tri-X film

Walking Downtown

This shot and few below were taken in late September/early October with Olympus P&S camera on Tri-X film

At Bayfront park in September

that was the rainiest September I remeber...

Every Day Is A Sun Day!

I remember my very first day in Miami 10 years ago. We flown from Moscow to NY and then to MIA where a relative pick us up. It was August 2002, same time of the year. There were waves of heat coming in every day, night rains, resulting in the humid sauna outside of the house we stayed. Everything was so new, so unusual to norther the people like us...not anymore. I am much better managing the weather now. I move slowly in the shadows and survive easily in the streets for a long time, taking pictures. Here are few from the last week:

Bayfront Park

This Monday at Bayfront park during lunch break with Olympus Stylus Epic/Ilford HP5+

The Shadow

I had not been shooting much lately and the films I still have developed do not give anything interesting; I fished this one from the old 2011's pile while looking through my archive for something else. It is Bessa R3M/35mm lens on Tri-X film rated at 1600 in Diafine.

Walking Downtown

It is a rare occasion when I develop a film the same day it had been exposed, like today. I saw this "mummy" holding the door on SE 3rd Avenue, close to Biscayne; shot few frames with Olympus P&S I always have with me; this is the better one out of 3 or 4. It hold no meaning or morale; has no story to tell; everything it has is purely visual -- just what I'm looking for:)