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120, animals, art, autumn, bridges, film, foraging, friends, hudson river, interior design, kingston, medium format, nature, photography, present, train tracks, vericolor, water, wreath
a series of curiosities.
i’ll start with the obvious then. this is a parallel and series project (intersecting/interdimensional) between time, space, media, and, again, dimension.
these portraits/process photos were taken on Kodak Vericolor film from the early 1960s, found perfectly (read, per photographers: messily) entombed in a darkroom of that era in peekskill, new york. being 120 format, i used my beloved, but perhaps retarded, 1954 Yashica Twin Lens Reflex. the film was rated at iso 160, and i lacking an electronic light meter, used my beloved but perhaps retarded brain for exposure calculation on an overcast autumn day.
okay: film expired, camera likely expired, brain questionable.
so those are the specifics. more vaguely, kat took to the shore of the hudson at kingston point to forage for a holiday wreath. i tagged along with camera in hand and we created this series, this photo montage, and this wreath which adorns the front door of our house.
this being film, and not 35mm film, it is apparently now quite a challenge to find a service to fit the bill readily! i was shocked that even in new york city, at locations where it was once easy to get film processed in just one hour, now one can expect to wait a week or more for film processing, and of course at a great premium! WHAT. and one can of course expect substandard and dubious processing in the printing department, as if one’s negatives weren’t violated enough. gross. of course the further away and more impersonal the source, the lesser the satisfaction with the product.
luckily in Kingston, Artcraft on Ulster Avenue still offers in-house film processing, even though their prices and the quality of their printing services (these prints were provided by Artcraft and several are not centered in the frame from what was amply available in the negative) are as good as a 1990s CVS… which might net you $5 and you’d still feel ripped off. thank you Artcraft, for offering a needed service in speedy processing, but the prints are the same sort of quality you’d expect from amateurs at a cornerstore.
so, here is the adventure . . . !
foraging #1
december 6, 2015
kingston, ny
foraging #2
december 6, 2015
kingston, ny
foraging #3
december 6, 2015
kingston, ny
foraging #4
december 6, 2015
kingston, ny
foraging #5
december 6, 2015
kingston, ny
foraging #5
december 6, 2015
kingston, ny
foraging #6
december 6, 2015
kingston, ny
Thomas Macom Photography 