A rare thing happened this week: I shot a roll of film on which I liked every image. In the old days we used to say if you got a good picture out of 36, the number of shots on a roll of 35mm film, you were doing fine. I was shooting my Hasselblad 1000F which makes 12 images on a roll of 120 film, and I went 12 for 12. This seems so unusual to me that I felt like I needed to commemorate it here on the blog. The images are from Road 151 which goes out to Christ in the Desert Monastery. I’ve shot out there a lot; I really like it! Anyway, I was shooting with the 80mm Tessar, the “normal” lens on the Hasselblad. I was using an orange filter, to darken the sky. The film is Kodak T-max 400 and I processed it in xtol. This Hasselblad was built in 1956, the same year I was assembled, so it doesn’t have a meter or any other electronics, very old school. Thanks for your attention
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A few links
I did a large show when I was still in Indianapolis called Courting Chaos. The link will take you to the pages which describe the work and its evolution. These images are, well, chaotic and many of them are nudes. I hope you’ll find it interesting.
Links to my books, still available at Amazon!