NickHeaphyPhotography

Some new images made over the long weekend.

The Hidden

Picked up a new little compact (already out of date even though it is brand new) for our trip to the UK at the end of the year. Decided that rather than lugging the Hasselblad around like I did last trip, that I really needed something small. While I would love to be able to find an affordable Mamiya 6 so I could keep shooting 120 film, my Trademe watch list has come up empty. In the end the size and the square format crop mode on the Canon S95 appealed enough to get a digital compact (though I will probably take the Oympus XA with some Orwo B&W too - even though I loath scanning 35mm)

Needed to try it out, hence the Hidden series.

If anyone has a Mamiya 6 that they want to sell off, let me know.

Trying to get through my processing and scanning backlog. Found another roll of film containing shots from the Barricade series so have put up 6 new images...

Have finally gotten though scanning a roll of film from the Parking series. Rather than putting all the buildings on a single page I have decided to break the series up into individual buildings...

Have just added 10 images to MyWellington (shout out to Karim Sahai who hooked me up with the roll of Ektar 100 that they were shot on (I know is says Fuji 400H at the bottom, but not really sure yet how I am going to change the pages style sheet to reflect different film types))

I like coffee. I like photography. Wellington has a place where both of these things exist in perfect harmony. PhotoEspresso. I can wander in, drop off a roll of film ($6 for a dev only 120), or a memory stick of images, and while I wait I can have a pretty damn good coffee. The staff are friendly, they embrace analog photography (they still have a wet lab, rare in this day and age), every 5 coffees you have you get 5 free prints (I have been getting 4x4 prints made and building a physical version of Random Wellington) - what's not to love?. If the place had a couch I might never leave.

Decided to take advance of the strong NZ $ and finally upgrade my crusty old Velbon (ex video) tripod to a nice new Manfrotto 055XProB with a flash ball head. I must admit that I am not really much of a tripod user, but having dropped the cash, I now really need to make sure I take it everywhere!

To that end, I wanted a method of carrying the tripod, but I did not really want a bag to get in the way. The goal was to have a shoulder strap that I could use with the tripod collapsed down, but also with a camera mounted and the legs extended.

Visited a local haberdashery shop and picked up some D rings, slides, clips and webbing and proceeded to raid my toolbox for cable ties and electrical tape.

The D rings were attached to the tripod with cable ties and electrical tape (the idea was that the tape would stop it moving round) while the slides and clips formed a strap that would stop the legs opening while I was carrying it. The shoulder strap was donated from an old laptop case.

Overall it works pretty well, might have to rethink the upper attachment as the D ring tends to slide around under the electrical tape when the head is not oriented with the D ring up, but not bad for $8 worth of parts.

Was a cold rainy day when we visited the World Press Photographic exhibition today. I probably should have realized that the depressing day outside would have been reflected by the imagery inside, based on mans disregard for each other and our propensity of enjoying seeing the misery of others.

Don't get me wrong, not all of the images were of war and natural disaster, however there was a significant percentage. The images of course were amazing and very sobering. I can't imagine what possess a photographer to want to go into these places to make images (though if you have not seen it, War Photograper does give some insight)

Well worth the $5 entry fee. On until 7/9/2011 at the Academy of Fine Arts