Shooting The Shooters
Shot from last weekend when Fergus aka Cunningvision and I went out for a street shoot, which 10 minutes into it the weather packed up and rained for the next hour or so…
This didn’t mean that we packed it in just that time was also spent at Galleries, drinking coffee and later on drinking beer 🙂 I got some shots while drinking both coffee and beer so a productive use of time all round.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Street Art: Girl With Giant Moths
Saw this awesome piece of street art on Vivian Street and had to take a shot. Unfortunately it was on the other side of a chain link fence so didn’t quite get the angle I wanted.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Second Hand Book Sale
Last weekend as I was walking along the waterfront I noticed that the rowing club was having a book sale and it started in a couple of minutes… Now I love books so I thought this would be a good opportunity to see if they had anything I wanted as well as get some shots of people looking at books.
If you have ever been to a second-hand book sale right as it starts you know what a chaotic place it is as everyone tries to scan through the books before anyone else to get the best books. This pretty much meant that after the first minute of looking for books I was pretty much invisible when I started taking images as everyone there was focused on the books… Invisible is Awesome!
It was upstairs and the sun was still pretty low in the sky so it made for great lighting.
I didn’t end up getting any books but the images were great 🙂
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Sitting
Random shot while sitting on Courtenay Place… This is a good example of camping to get images 🙂
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Boat Fight
These yachts were following/dueling right next to the wharf a couple of weekends ago… I have to say that I had no idea that boats this size were so maneuverable as these guys were ripping it up something fierce!
Rollei doesn’t have a tele lens and this image isn’t cropped so they were pretty close!
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Dan And 4×5
I found this shot of Dan using my 4×5 camera at Point Halswell while I was looking for images of Fort Balance
Nikon F5… Cant remember what else sorry it was a while ago…
Fort Balance Retrospective
On the front of Fridays Dominion Post there was an article about the military wanting to sell off the land that a number of the historic fortresses are on. A few years ago I decided to go and investigate all of the old forts and battlements around Wellington and found this one while looking for something else… I think these were taken around 2008… I have kept meaning to try and get actual permission to go back since this one and a couple of others are on Military land but have never got round to it… Possibly because I have no idea where to ask 🙂
Here are some shots of Fort Balance which was built in the 1880s. There is a good article HERE which details most of the history of the fort.
Nikon D70s, 18-70mm Lens, ISO 200.
Fishing Boat
Couple of shots of fish being sold off the boat at the Waitangi Park Farmers Market last Sunday.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Bus Fatality Memorial
Last Saturday while I was wandering around I spotted this memorial of flowers on Willis Street… I decided to lean up against the wall of shops and wait for people to interact with the memorial. It turned out to be quite an interesting 20 minutes. There seemed to be an invisible line where people wouldn’t stop if I was too close but didn’t seem to notice me at all if I was behind this line. The difference was only something like 30cm difference.
Unfortunately it started to rain after this and the foot traffic just disappeared…
It turns out that the Tuesday before a woman was hit and killed by a bus here (News article HERE)
This is part of the Manners Mall bus lane change where road layouts have changed and previously one-way streets have been turned into two-way streets for buses.
Addition: Walked past the same spot today and all the flowers are gone… I wonder if the council didn’t like the reminders…
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Sequence Of Sam
Straight out of the camera and scanned as one negative… I really like the flow of this image… Half Frame is cool 🙂
Canon Demi S Half Frame Camera, Kodak Supra 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Half Frame Tripod With Legwarmers
A couple more shots of the Tripod with its legwarmers. I thought the Pom Poms were a nice touch 🙂
This time in colour from my half frame… Not sure what is up with the crazy yellow shift in the first one. It probably means the film was somewhat expired 🙂
Canon Demi S Half Frame Camera, Kodak Supra 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Even Tripods Get Cold
Its a bit hard to make out but the sculpture at the end of Courtenay Place has had legwarmers put on it by some Knitting Graffiti Personages. I took a series of closer shots on half frame camera but since it took three weeks to shoot 12 frames on Rollei it might take a while to get through seventy two on the Demi…
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
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