After last Friday night’s nowhere-near-a-blizzard, the recess area of the local elementary school was blanketed with snow. On my way back from the gym on Saturday morning, I snapped this photo*, with the blurry section of the chainlink fence framing the sad little trees standing guard over the empty playground.
* What? Who doesn’t take their clunky 1960s Pentax to the gym?
I work in a windowless office. When I'm not here, I take a lot of photographs. Those two facts may or may not be related.
Cameras:
Leica M6/M9 + Zeiss Biogon 35/2
Hasselblad 500c/m + Zeiss Planar CF T* 80/2.8
Pentax 6x7 + SMC Takumar 105/2.4
Nikon FE + Nikkor 50/1.8
Pentax Spotmatic + Super Takumar 50/1.4
Contax T2
Yashica Mat 124
Minolta Hi-Matic 7S
Lomo LC-A
Holga 120
I live in Brooklyn, NY. I sometimes think about moving to Berlin. I used to shoot 99% of the time with film. Now that I have a Leica M9, there's a bit more digital in my life, but I don't plan on abandoning film anytime soon.
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I can be reached at ruinista [at] gmail [dot] com.
you can buy some of my darkroom prints over here.
interview over at serious eats.
another interview at great food photos.
featured on daydream lily.
indeed, that was probably awkward, though now sadly defunct.
my food photos.
hong-an tran