Miami's Overtown

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, I95) were build through the area; its remnants of the past now, in a form of half-empty old structures with modern condo towers popping around here are there. Once a year,there is a street fair called "Overtown Music and Arts Festival" which I am trying hard not to miss. Yes, its not the biggest one; the weather of mid-summer is atrocious; and it is scheduled for the hottest time of the day. Still, its the best event in Miami one can photograph. Every year I bring something interesting from it.
Here are some of this year's catch:

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

Current content

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

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

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.

Morning at Haulover Beach

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

Little Havana, backstage

This winter I started walking working class neighborhoods of Little Havana. I liked it better then the Calle Ocho. Yes, it is less iconic, never too crowded and there is nothing here to catch tourist's eye, but I'm not a tourist, more of a local already. Here are the few frames from the last week's wanderings:

Lucas, I'm watching you

Again, Olympus XA/Tri-X

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.

This phone is broken. Who did it?

[Order Print]

This was taken with Olympus XA camera, beautiful old P&S. I liked it more then I actually anticipated when I first hold it in my hands. It is aperture priority rangefinder, I use it as a scale camera most of the time but here I actually used the rangefinder and it did the job. The film was Ilford HP5 at E.I.800 developed in Diafine.