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| Kira - February 25, 2024 |
Yesterday after I scanned a white dahlia from my garden I looked up in Google the story of the origins of the plant. I was completely dazzled by the fact that it was a plant that was indigenous to the Aztecs in Mexico. I wrote that had I told myself in the last century that I was going to research dahlias at the Vancouver Public Library I would have been too lazy in the end to go.
What I keep explaining and writing in many of my blogs is that combining the technology of the 20th century with that of this one will result in astounding results. With many of my photo peers I seem to be trying to sell a sick horse. I am ignored.
Today I want to show the photographs I took of a lovely but mature woman friend of mine called Kira. She posed for me in my little Kitsilano studio on February 25, 2024.
In my little studio I have on the opposite of my middle grey wall a large mirror. I turned my camera in that direction and photographer her in what I saw in the mirror. I used slow shutters and during the exposure I tended to move my camera downwards. In these photographs I am seen on the right.
I also decided to shoot b+w film in my medium format Mamiya RB-67. In the pictures here you can see it on the tripod on the left.
A few days later once The Lab had processed my film I chose one negative. While I was scanning it I was also pulling it gently towards. I have cropped what might have offended the folks of the “Community Standards”.
I cannot understand why living in a city where we have The Lab (they even process the Ektachrome I like to shoot), Beau Photo (they have the latest lighting equipment which can be bought or rented and a large refrigerator with film that you might not even know exists) and Kerrisdale Cameras with experience experts like Jeff Gin at the North Van store, we do not have more avid photographers.
