Mad Hatters Tea Party?
Outside Armageddon/Comicon… I have just finished reading Alice in Wonderland to my daughter and this shot reminded me of the Queen of Hearts with a gesture of “Off with your head!”
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
The Kind Of Shot I Want to Be Taking More Of
A shot of a couple of drunks on Saturday morning.
This is definitely the type of shot that I want to be taking more of, but constant don’t take due to being afraid to ask.
As it turned out the guy on the right asked me to take his photo after he saw my Rolleiflex and commented that it was a “cool camera”
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Government House Foray
Last weekend Government House had its first open day in about the last 4 years. They have just completed a multi multi million dollar refurbishment and I guess were trying to justify it to the public who paid for it.
When we got there the queue to get into the house was about two and a half hours long and having both kids with us there was no way that we were going to be able to wait that long so we joined the rest of the non queue waiters and went around the outside of the house and looked in. The amusing thing was that there were people working at their computers while a multitude of public looked in the windows at them… Very zooish 🙂
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Uncomfortable Sleeper
Last weekend I went out early to find sleepers only to find that the council was out in force mowing and cleaning everything in sight. However it did mean that this guy probably moved away from where he usually crashed and this was much more interesting.
In other events I have officially become a sleeper “Snob” walking past one in the weekend because they weren’t interesting enough… Not sure if this is a good thing.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Shooting Some Shooters
When you go to an Event that is like the Dragon Boat Festival a couple of weeks ago with a Rolleiflex a lot of the time it isn’t worth photographing the actual event due to the Rollei not having much in the way of a telephoto ability… But that doesn’t mean you don’t get to take images or have fun 🙂
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner
Collectors With Guns
The Armageddon/Comicon event was on in the weekend, I spotted this at the queue to get in. Is it ethical for collectors for (I am assuming) the Christchurch earthquake to have guns? Kinda takes it to the next level really. I did also miss a shot of Darth Vader also collecting…
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000 Scanner.
Watching In The Sun
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Parkour
A couple of different groups of guys practicing parkour skills down by the waterfront.
Rolleiflex 2.8E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
A Couple Of Angels
I haven’t posted any images of cemeteries for a while, having been concentrating more on street photography, so here goes a couple of shots from two different walks.
I really like the Bokeh in the first image…
The second image is from a roll I took with an extension tube and a 50mm lens with the purpose of getting images of textures and things that would be good to use with blending layers etc… Since I took it I haven’t had much motivation to sit in front of my computer much so maybe I will get round to it one day…
Top Image: Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Bottom Image: Nikon F5, 50mm f1.8 and PK-12 Extension Tube, HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Yet Another Sleeper
Last weekends sleeper find… The poll I ran last week was mostly inconclusive so I am still trying to work out what I should call this category of images.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Rainy Day
This was shot on a roll of Delta 3200 ISO Film pulled to 800 ISO. I ran out of film on a previous day (which was bright and sunny) and had to down rate the ISO of my remaining film, of course the next day I was out it was really dark and I could have used the extra couple of stops to freeze this shot… Oh well 🙂
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford Delta 3200 ISO Pulled to 800 ISO, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Food Vendor
A food vendor at a cultural festive held in Civic Square in Wellington… I guess his day wasn’t going so well… It probably didn’t help that it poured down with rain about 30 mins later.
I like how sometimes if you wait long enough it all come together 🙂
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
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