More from Town Lake.

South lawn of the Capitol.

Taking a break from the Town Lake series

This is my boss, Monti. She, Polly and I went out to shoot some expired (1986) color negative film several weeks ago, and it still worked. This was taken on the North side of the Capitol.

This is the original scan:

A family at Town Lake.

The same power station as yesterday’s entry.

Returning to the Town Lake series. These are stairs that lead down to the water beside what seems to be an old, unused power station.

This is what happens when your film becomes loosely wrapped around the spool in your Holga. I probably couldn’t print this in a darkroom. Notice the numbers from the paper backing.

Deep Eddy is right next to Town Lake. The free swimming half of the pool was drained.

Another from Town Lake.

New images from town lake. These are geese, aren’t they?

Yet another from this series. Does it work? I’m going to be developing 3 rolls today, so hopefully some new stuff will show up here soon.

See Friday’s entry for an explanation of this series. I like this image the best of all.

See Friday’s entry for an explanation of this series. I think this is the lesser of the two shots I’ll be posting of people rowing.

See Friday’s entry for an explanation of this series.

I spent an hour or so working on my Holga tonight. I recently bought one from a friend to replace my original Holga. I ripped the lens off Holga #1 after (intentionally) leaving it in my car for a year, and having the lens melt. It didn’t produce the results I really wanted. But luckily it’s still good for parts. So I ended up putting the lens from Holga #2 on Holga #1 and turning the new body into a PinHolga. So maybe you’ll be seeing some results from that before long.

On a totally unrelated note, I applied online to be a White House photographer tonight. That sounds a lot more important than it actually is. The truth is, I’ve been throwing the idea of following this government photography work through to another level. Watching the photographers on the House floor during the State of the Union address impressed it upon me even further. And it’s not like I’d have even a remote chance of getting that job. But there was a way to apply on the White House web site, so I figured it certainly couldn’t hurt.

I’m really excited about the images I’ll be posting over the next few days. I took my newest Holga down to Town Lake a few weeks ago and shot a roll of Tri-X 400 as I walked the trail. I was expecting some decent images, but I’m quite pleased with how the majority of them turned out. As I left, I loaded up another roll of film, and I haven’t been able to find the camera since. I thought I might’ve left it in my car, but I’m really not sure. I’ll be looking all over the house for it this weekend.

I’ve never had a film scanner, though I’d like to get one, so when I started working for the state, I started to learn to use the Fuji Frontier. The good thing about this is that instead of printing, I can just scan film and send it to my computer. This explains my return to film on BeyondMonochrome. Actually, this explains why I even began using film on here.

You have to choose between B&W, Color Negative or Reversal when scanning 120 in manual mode. I accidentally left it in color negative mode and achieved these seemingly toned results because of the purple film base. So I stuck with it.

This particular image shows the train tracks for the small train that takes passengers around Zilker Park.

On 45th St., just off Lamar. Taken at the “worst time of the day”.