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Olympic Diner closed down in June due to the hyper-gentrification going on throughout the city. I went there specifically because I read on Jeremiah's Vanishing New York and shot this on 8x10 color Polaroid film made by The Impossible Project. It was a test release that needs some more work. Hopefully they will be offering it again soon. The film is perfect for what I am trying to show.
Olympic Diner
Another beautiful old store with great vintage signs in Bed-Stuy
My wife and I are looking to buy a house. While checking out one in the Flatbush Brooklyn area I came across the Nostrand Donut Shop. There is something that I just love about old signage.
An image of Coney Island showing a building no longer there. It used to be a theater and from what I am told it was beautiful. You can see the wonder Wheel off in the background.
Ok Ok so my Daliy Pics post has not been everyday, but I am working on it and hope to have some more images for the future on a regular basis. This images is from Asbury Park, New Jersey, a place dear to my heart. I used to go there as a teenager to see bands like Social Distortion and Dramarama. I believe this building is no longer there. I shot it with some of the earliest Impossible Project color film.
The Lost City Liquor Store
Lately Asbury Park has had a small resurgence. Hopefully this time it will last.
This past weekend I took my second class with Carl Weese at the Center for Alternative Photography. The first one I took was Platinum Printing where we learned how to take, develop and print traditional negative. I wrote about it before. I learned a lot in that class, but when I went back home to try it, I ran into all kinds of problems. Carl was kind enough to answer some of my questions through email, but sometimes it really helps to take a class, try the process and take it again to follow up. One of the problems with workshops is that their is usually not enough time to go into trouble shooting. Especially with a process like platinum, that has so many different variables as to what could go wrong. Then add the complexity of digital printing.
Read MoreGutted Like a Fish - Photos from Hurricane Sandy
Two of my pieces are being exhibited at the International Art Fair. "Melting Into the Ocean" and "Gutted Like a Fish". The exhibition will take place from June 26-June28, 2013 at 25CPW gallery at the address: 25 Central Park West, New York, NY
Gallery open to public: June 27 from 12.30pm-10pm June 28 from 12.30pm-8pm
Opening reception on June 27 from 6-9pm.
This is the first exhibition of this work. I have another coming up in October.
Greg
Gutted Like a Fish - Photos from Hurricane Sandy
Here is another photo from the Point Pleasant New Jersey showing the effects of Hurricane Sandy. The house is right on the Manasquan Inlet. I took this photo once before, but I made a mistake in processing it. I was so taken with the devastation in the area that I went back multiple times to get it right.
I recently acquired an Agfa Isolette III with a Apotar 85mm f/3.5 Lens from Ebay.com. I paid around $40.00 for it. The camera is an old fashioned medium format rangefinder from the 60’s. It’s a quirky camera with an uncoupled rangefinder where you peer through the window, focus and then read from the dial on top and then change the lens on the front to match the settings of the rangefinder. Let’s just say it’s not an action type of camera. It also has no light meter either so it really is manual in a lot of ways.
The maximum shutter speed is 300th of a second so it can present a problem on really sunny days, but it is a really compact and discreet camera and great for walking around with everyday in NYC. The main problem with these cameras is that the bellows almost always have problems. The lenses usually have problems as well. They usually stick below a 25th of a second. I plan on sending mine to get a new bellows and the lens cleaned by Jurgen from http://www.certo6.com/cameras/agfa-isolette I have not tried him yet, but he has a lot of good information on the cameras. I also found this site: http://www.rolandandcaroline.co.uk/repair.html to be very helpful with repairs.
Below are some photos I took with the camera. I used HP5 and developed
them at home with Kodak HC110. They are a little noisy because the lens
speeds I think is not accurate, but I plan on testing and fixing that
soon. I will also have some color photos as well.
A test with the Agfa Isolette III
A test with the Agfa Isolette III
A test with the Agfa Isolette III
Torn and Tattered - Photos from Hurricane Sandy
In Point Pleasant, a whole street on the Manasquan Inlet was torn apart by Hurricane Sandy. An Oceanside restaurant suffered major damage and is still laying in pieces. The waterline still visible, the awning shredded. The place is just a skeleton of what it used to be. See more photos here.