I’ve been dealing with an emerging disability recently that’s v scary for me as someone whose chief / only pleasure these past few years has been walking. Atm I can only manage max 15 minutes a day, cane assisted, & idk if it’s gonna get better or worse or what.
Anyway - I’m still taking photos through it all. Thank god for tiny cameras you can use with one hand! Here are my favourites from the past couple of days
I’m sorry to hear that! I hope things look up for you. Thank god for tiny cameras indeed, nice shots you have here!
Just shot my first bulk rolled vision 3 500T yesterday at a lunar new year parade and developed it this morning. I was a bit apprehensive about the process, but I am shocked at how well it turned out!
I used the same process as my regular C-41 film (cinestill kit), but added a prebath with the homemade remjet remover detailed above. I wasn’t 100% sure the best way to actually perform the prebath, but this is what I ended up doing:
(as an aside, I was somewhat concerned at this step because the solution i poured out was just barely tinted a purple/black, so I was worried that it had hardly accomplished anything at all)
(second aside–this was my we’re so back moment, because this first tap water wash came out almost completely black with a few larger intact bits of remjet material. It was working!)
After all was said and done I was frankly amazed not to see a single bit of remjet clinging to the film by the end of the process. It’s really a shame Kodak doesn’t want this stock making its way to dirtbags like us…maybe it’s time to stock up before the supplies run dry. The roll I developed is hanging to dry right now, will come back and post the scans when I get around to that :)
Hahaha, nicely done! There really is something about a quiet walk on an empty beach in the winter.
Comforted by how little has changed to the unassuming lakefront properties of Rogers Park—mine were from 2008. Also, happy to see that bird is still alive and well.
Good news on the film front:
^Lucky bringing new “affordable” color film this year!
^LightLensLab making new stocks of everything under the sun!? (Seems ambitious…)
I dig everyone’s street photography and forays into film…
But I’ll keep sharing my wildlife photography niche if that’s cool!
Ditched work to spend the morning at a wildlife reserve, which ruled.
I was staring down at a duck in some grass below me, and a guy behind me yelled HOLY SHIT!
Two eagles flew right over my head and then up into the air, dogfighting over the wetland area.
Luckily that guy yelled, maybe I wouldn’t have even noticed.
Anyway, wildlife photography can be a fun and frustrating challenge at times like this. You have a few seconds to try to get the animals in frame, zoom in, and take your shots, while operating the camera out of muscle memory. I actually kind of messed up in this situation, I tried to switch to a custom mode with a fast shutter speed that i use for birds in flight, but I accidentally switched to a slower shutter speed. Luckily, the bigger the bird, the slower the shutter speed you can get away with, and I shot enough frames that a few were sharp. I think the slow shutter speed actually resulted in a lower ISO and higher quality pictures than I would have otherwise gotten, and it was an accident…
Anyway, here are the highlights:
I think this next one is probably the best photo I’ve taken so far, from an interesting subject+technical implementation perspective.
I have tried to spoiler it because it shows an eagle carrying a dead animal / its prey.
Holy smokes, that spoilered shot is incredible!
I’ve really struggled to get any decent shots with actively moving wildlife so can relate to just how challenging it is.
Nice shots! I certainly enjoy seeing wildlife photography, quite welcome here!
Went for a walk last night now that the snow and ice is melted. I’m taking mostly studio classes this semester and as a result literally all I can think about is interesting textures lol
Here are some of my favorites:
It’s nice doing something different after primarily working in portrait photography. I feel like this is challenging me to be more intentional in my subject matter and general composition. I also appreciate my surroundings a lot more so that’s cool!
Interesting, I’m the exact opposite—I’m too shy to take street shots of people, or portraits, so I end up just finding interesting lighting, shapes, or alignments around me 
Really hoping to get more comfortable with people-watching.
What gear you use
Been shooting on the same Sony NEX-6 for years, which I got because it was a pretty cheap option for shooting video back in 2015 (student film stuff). Don’t have a lot to say about it except that it’s nice and compact. Someday I’d like to put some money and time into investigating other gear.
I took these while exploring in recent months. Photography can never truly capture the real thing of course, but that’s felt especially true in some of these old cities.
Gap
Marseille
Savona
Rome
Oh my social anxiety is horrible lol I can handle portraits but asking to take a photo of someone on the street?? Scariest thing ever
A lot of work I love is in photojournalism so I read occasionally on photojournalists. It’s inspiring! It makes me wanna take photos of random people! Just really hard to start. But honestly though when I went on that walk I actually saw someone I wanted to photograph, so maybe I’ll try and ask someone next time. Exposure therapy baby!!
that doorway chair bathed in light is a lovely observation. What’s the ‘Bell’ mean on that phone box? I’m very ill-travelled lol
the sun finally came out in southwest England! it’s gone again now (thank god), but here’s a few of my favourite snaps from the past week :)
Oh that’s Bell Canada, one of our oldest telephone companies, and one of the Big Three telecoms in Canada that are basically an oligopoly that are actively anti-competitive 
