"In Osaka" by Yamasaki Ko-Ji

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 the layout, it became a real one the moment I attached the loose leafs of paper to each other with binder clips. Somehow the images survived a truly terrible print quality. If you familiar with Japanese photographers of PROVOKE era (Takuma Nakahira, Daido Moriyama, Yutaka Takanashi and others), you will recognize the style. The book will be on Amazon sometime this year (the release date still TBD). More images from the dummy book below. The site of the photographer: http://yamasaki.ko-ji.com/

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

Overtown

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

Shadows of shadows, shells of shells

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-based (i.e. flammable).
All three -- exposed, and in dated boxes:

Overtown

Morning at Haulover Beach

Haulover is my favorite beach. In the morning it is usually deserted.

Memorial Day's Night at Ocean Drive

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

Hammock park

This is from RRT gathering in Matheson Hammock park on Old Cutler road. RRT AKA "Russian Round Table South Florida" is a social club I am visiting sometimes; here we were celebrating the Soviet Army day Feb the 23rd. Nice weather, beautiful SF scenery and mother's tongue all around; the further in the event, the louder it was:) For this occasion I used something appropriate: FED 2 camera with 50mm Industar lens.

Kill it before it lays eggs

I bought this can of Kodak 35mm cine version of Tri-X film from late 50s in a hope to find it exposed, but it turned out to be not. So I used the opportunity to check my old film development process on it. First, I put it in my FED-2 rangefinder camera and exposed at 50 E.I. (originally it was 320 ASA but 50 ASA is my best guess of what's left of it), I also bracketed with +1 and +2. Then, I used my standard process for developing fresh Tri-X (4.5 min @ 75F/24C in TMax 1:4) and it turned out to be heavily fogged, barely printable/scannable. Then I developed it in 10% HC-110 at 50F/10C for 2.5 minutes (the time had been calculated based on test). It came out ok. Here is how it looked after the development:

Walking Downtown

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

In Wynwood

Night in Wynwood II

Again, Tri-X at E.I.1600 in Leica M2 but this time with Cosina's 35mm f/2.5 lens.
All on 1/15 and wide open.

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

Last night of November at Lincoln

Leica M2 with 28mm on TMax P3200 @ E.I.12500

Three Graces

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

Friday's Night Catch

Leica M2 has become my #1 camera for night work. Tried: Leica IIIf, Nikon F5, Nikon S, Contax IIa...you name it. M2 is a clear winner. The lenses are 35mm and 28mm (this is 28mm).

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...

Night at Ocean with TMAX P3200

Leica M2/28mm/Kodak Tmax P3200 @ E.I.12500 in Tmax developer