Everything Street Photography

This blog is out on vacation.
Feel free to visit and post comments at my new photography blog at: http://www.nonphotography.com/blog/

Your new blog looks really sharp -- I did like the old one but you've got a lot more potential with the new one. Any chance you can somehow integrate the community blog with your other? Not to put our posts into your main content area, of course, but just to give it all a similar look and feel, and maybe tie comments in that area to our "real" names over here? Mostly just cause it looks better

Actually, you should move all your site into the new style. Nothing against your old site. I just really like the new one. I might have to steal some ideas if I ever build mine again.

Come on people, I need my fix of photos...where is everyone?

I just got back from a week in New York with my three new girlfriends, the digital rebel XTI, the Ikon, and my somewhat eccentric Holga. Having never used any of the three until this trip, it was bound to be interesting...of course the digital camera performed as well as expected, but the other two were more interesting. I just got the negatives back today and have been scanning them in for some time (took a while to figure out the film scanning process).

Can't say they came out great, but I wasn't expecting much -- since neither camera has a REAL viewfinder, I didn't even know what I was actually taking pictures of! The Holga lets you look through a fake lens, but the Ikon only has a little box that hangs in space -- and the view you see in that is MUCH more zoomed in than what the film actually records.

I'm redoing my website again while I master the Ruby language, but hopefully I'll have it back up soon and can show off some of my work. It was an adventure, I have to say. This was the first trip where I felt challenged by the photography, and I think that's due in large part to the fact that I actually had to think some. And that is always a good thing.

No pictures yet -- but I was over at my folks' house last night and they had been going through some old stuff. My dad was quite into photography back in the day, then I came along and kind of distracted he and mom for a while...but they were cleaning up and found a camera that someone had given him a loooong time ago. At least 25 years ago. But the camera itself is up to 69 years old -- 1938 is when it was first built (it's a Zeiss Icon 515/2). The thing is built like a tank -- it puts my poor digital rebel to shame as far as construction. And it's so simple!

But the best part...there was a roll of film inside. It almost certainly is dead and won't have anything on it. But, I'm taking it to the lab tomorrow anyway -- I figure there's a 1 in a million chance that the film can be developed and will have some kind of captured gem from the past, from who knows when.

And I'll be getting some new film, too. I'll keep you guys updated with whatever I find.

Oh -- by the way, I "borrowed" the camera from my dad, but I think he realizes that I'm actually stealing it.

Well, I'm an idiot. I kept saying I would back up my drives next weekend, and next weekend turned into next month, next year, and here I am over two years later...can anyone guess where this story is going?

ALL of my street photos are gone. The drive is completely corrupted. I've run a few different file restoration utilities on it and they don't see any directory or file structure at all -- nothing. So, I'm going to have to take the drive in to a pro to see if they can pull anything off (for a large amount of money, I'm sure).

This is the one area where all you film shooters will get no arguments from me about the weaknesses of digital...but it was my own fault. The good news is that I do still have all of my hiking pictures from around Arizona and some California...but there are sooooo many others that are probably just gone.

One of my friends said, "Look at the bright side...god's telling you to get a better camera." And in my depression, I might just take that advice...

Hello All,

www.nonphptography.com has had a long history in my bookmarks and is a site I very much admire in terms of content and design. It was therefore with a great deal of pleasure that I recently stumbled across this related blog. I have taken photographs for a number of years now and I am starting to realise that for me, street photography is one of the most interesting and exciting genres of photographic art.

I, and two very talented friends of mine, also post to our own blog entitled Monochrome Brisbane. As the name suggests we post monochrome images of our home city; sometimes as part of a theme, other times as individual images according to our own taste. Some are very recognisable as street photography, others hint of a desire to explore architectural line and form, and yet others are a celebration of the characteristics of light itself.

I look forward to a long and hopefully reciprocally rewarding relationship with Everything Street photography and to celebrate this inaugural post have included “CDs for Sale” an image which I took recently on the streets of my home city.

Cheers,

Martin.