Hi all. I like the fact that this weekend's thread will be built on a solid brick foundation (or something). Nice
Carlos: Have fun in the big city with the small camera. I lusted after a GR1 for years and then I got 2 and didn't like them. Crazy. Sold them on at a small profit and I'm really glad I tried them out, but it's still a total mystery to me as to why I didn't get on with them. In fact I didn't actually not like them, I just didn't use them enough to warrant keeping them when they had such a decent re-sale value.
Anyway, last weekend - inspired by the Taschen Polaroid book and buring to do something creative and slightly weird with the camera - I decided I was going to take some time out on Sunday to do some photography. I had an idea of getting the kids to draw on sheets of perspex with markers and then take portraits of them through the various layers. It was going to be awesome. Unfortunately, real life intervened and by the time I had my makeshift studio set up, the kids were
SO not interested in getting involved. But I had the itch. I needed to press the shutter a few times and get it out of my system, so I resolved on a Plan B that involved taking a few photos of some beetroot. I know, right. Pff.
Tachihara field camera with Polacolor 125i.
Beetroot by
Ed Wenn, on Flickr
Beetroot by
Ed Wenn, on Flickr