Ads

Sorry about the flashing banner on the home page and some of the other adverts that I'm experimenting with - but you know - I'm convinced that 90% of the people who stumble into this place really want a big poster. Let's see how it goes.

And here I was - just the other day complaining about all the ads on the tube. I'll try not to clutter the place up much more.

Portrait in Corridor

Portrait in Corridor

TMZ @ 1600 in Microphen - not the magic solution for me. In other words - grain size appearance is only every so slightly reduced compared to other developers I've used with TMZ Shots certainly weren't ruined but the developer / film combination is really your palette and what you want on that palette is very subjective. I like it better than the fast delta film - but it's just so-so in this solution.

I'll have time over the weekend to try the Tri-X @ 1600 in Microphen.

TMZ and Hospital

What happened was that on Thursday I was on my way out to spend some time (thought it would be a few hours) with my father at University Hospital (he's fine). But it turned into a monumental wait. Anyway - before I left at 8 a.m. I had a bit of Tri-X in the M3 which I had started at @400 and I knew that wasn't going to do it for shooting in the hospital and I wanted the quietness of the M3 so I pulled the Tri-X out and switched to the TMZ.

All day, and it was all day - I thought I was shooting Tri-X a@ 1600 but was surprised this morning to find it was TMZ @ 1600. I just developed it in Microphen: 10.5 minutes / stock / 68F / 3 inversions per minute. It's washing. Can't wait to see it. It was one of the combinations I wanted to try anyway.

Well, I have a roll in the other camera with Tri-X @ 1600 which I'm halfway through. There's at least one shot on that roll that I think is good, maybe. So I hope I didn't blow it.

Justice, Black Eye

This is from a few years ago at the "old" Bronx Courthouse. When I was there last, there were plans to turn it into an urban mall. Don't know if that happened yet or not.

When my father was a teenager, he was arrested for climbing over the fence at the Bronx Zoo (on an off day) and brought here and held for a few hours. He tells me that when he came out - he was greeted by his friends who considered him a hero - first one to be arrested in their group. He went on from this to fight in WWII and become a professor - but his eyes still light up when he tells the story of his "day in the Bronx pen."