Posts Tagged ‘Voigtlander Bessa-L’
All photographs taken with a Voigtlander Bessa-L running a 15mm Heliar lens and Fuji Superia 400 film.
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Tags: 15mm Heliar, beach, coast, ocean, Pacific, Point Reyes, Point Reyes National Seashore, rangefinder, Superia 400, Voigtlander Bessa-L, wideangle
snow blossoms at yoshino
The plum blossoms are at full strength, the white magnolia in my backyard is covered with so many blossoms that it looks like a performing waiter balancing a thousand ceramic cups on a thousand arms like some kind of woodland Shiva, and the songbirds have returned to scope out all the good early nesting opportunities. […]
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Tags: 15mm Heliar, 35mm Ultron, aerial ropeway, ancient Japanese poems, asceticism, Buddhism, Buddhist statuary, cherry blossoms, 紀 友則, En no Gyoja, 金峯山寺, 蔵王堂, 蔵王権現, 雪, 西行 法師, Ki no Tomonori, Kinpusen Temple, Kinpusen-ji, Mount Yoshino, mountain ascetics, Nara Prefecture, Saigyō Hōshi, Shugendō, snow, snow blossoms, somei-yoshino, Voigtlander Bessa R2A, Voigtlander Bessa-L, waka, winter, Yoshino, Yoshino Ropeway, Zao-Gongen, Zaōdō, 冬, 吉野ロープウェイ, 吉野蔵王権現, 吉野山, 和歌, 奈良県, 役行者, 染井吉野, 桜, 修験道
Two years ago I spent six months living on Swan’s Island, one of the most beautiful spots on the planet. The house that I stayed in was relatively isolated and so I spent a good deal of time by myself, reading and writing, of course, but also spending time down at the two coves that […]
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Tags: 15mm Heliar, Back Cove, coves, drifting, Fujifilm GF670, Maine, ocean, Ricoh GRD2, sea, Swan's Island, Toothacher Cove, Voigtlander Bessa-III, Voigtlander Bessa-L, wooden canoe
Somewhat ironically, the majority of the film I managed to salvage from my 2009 trip to South Korea wasn’t even shot in Korea. Because I managed to leave my entire bag of exposed film behind on the ferry ride from Busan to Osaka, the only film that I was able to develop was the film […]
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Tags: 15mm Heliar, boats, Busan, cruise, ferry, Korea, LOMO LC-A+, lost film, PanStar, rangefinder, shipping, South Korea, Voigtlander Bessa-L
I’ve been to see the Yodogawa Hanabi fireworks festival several times. It’s glorious and amazing and definitely the singular largest annual display of fireworks that I’ve ever seen. They launch something like 20,000 fireworks at Yodogawa Hanabi and hundreds of thousands of people come to watch. It may not be as large as Osaka’s famous […]
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Tags: 15mm Heliar, available light, 花火, fireworks, fireworks festival, night, Osaka, photography, Voigtlander Bessa-L, wide-angle lens, Yodo River, Yodogawa Hanabi, 大阪, 淀川, 淀川花火
the happenstance quadrille
Many of my favorite photographs are the result of accidental openings of the shutter, miscued snappings, bizarrely disfigured exposure times, and unexpected slips in the winding mechanism. My back catalog is full of mistakes like these, which were especially rampant when my primary camera was a LOMO LC-A. These photographs are like dreams that have […]
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Tags: "beautiful imperfection", "photographic mistake", 15mm Heliar, 35mm Ultron, 50mm Nokton, accident, chance, happenstance, LOMO LC-A+, mistake, photography, rangefinder, Ricoh GRD2, Voigtlander Bessa R2A, Voigtlander Bessa-L, Voigtlander Bessa-T
