lazy sunday walkabout. (with film!)

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It was a sunny but brisk Sunday, just the wee-est bits of spring poking around.  Olivia, Nick, and I wandered around the East Village, down along the edge of  NYU and Soho, and finally to the Lower East Side, with our cameras in tow.  Though I have shot with film since entering the digital world, it was for a client, and not for my own edification.  So, feeling like I needed to reconnect with analog, I brought my long-neglected Leica M6 with me.  Nick offered up a roll of expired Kodak Ektar 100 — by far my favorite film stock — and voila!, some gorgeous, wonderfully saturated shots.

Here was our afternoon, from start to finish.  Only one of these photos — the ‘Open House’ storefront shot — was edited in Lightroom for contrast, to counteract the late afternoon haze.  Otherwise, all of these photos are as-is.  A good reminder of why film is the best.

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We ran into the fellows working at Carbone, getting out their fancy chairs in preparation for the dinner crowd.

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An afternoon filled with sunspots and shade.

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Gotta get back into my Backdrop Project now that it’s getting nice out again!

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Triple shootout!

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Above: Peter at the Stack, where I ended my afternoon.

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