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Trying new things

I finally got around to loading some film into my pinhole camera (as previewed on here) and visited downtown Tulsa...or close by so I could get some photos of the city skyline.  Spent a couple hours out and about with my pinhole camera and my Holga camera, photographing the skyline as well as some daylight scenes around Centennial Park in Tulsa.  Of course, I'll have to re-visit it again sometime to capture some low-light photographs and maybe even some night time long exposures with the pinhole camera - reciprocity failure fun ahead!!

New project in progress

I got inspired to start taking a series of photos of a collection of bronze statues that are located along Riverside Drive in Tulsa.  So far I have only visited three of them: bears, otters and bobcat - but there are quite a few more that I will get around to visiting soon.

I primarily photographed them with my digital SLR and 20mm lens but I also had my Holga with me so have some photos on 120 slide film to check out once I have it processed.

Bear Statue:

Otter Statue:

Bobcat Statue:

These are some of my first photos of the statues and I fully intend to visit them again to capture them in different lighting conditions - and photograph the remaining statues.

Weekend project

This weekend I started off on my experimentation with pinhole photography.  I completed the assembly of my camera (from a kit) that will shoot on 35mm film.  I haven't shot any film through it yet as I need to pick up a few rolls of colour neg film - I don't have any on-hand right now.

I thought I'd add a quick photo of the camera here and will be reporting back once I have run some film through it.

More photo restoration work

My photo restoration project before Christmas was such a hit with my in-laws that I now have another couple of photos to work on.  These new photos are not disintegrating like the last one (and I still need to try and slow/stop the process) and are primarily very faded and were drawn on with pencil/pen. 

Have to say I'm enjoying the "other" side to photography and working to save/restore old images that hold importance for someone.  New images and photos are certainly important but saving the past is more important as they can never be replaced as the people, places and moment have long gone.  It's also interesting to try and see the moment that the photos were originally taken, or to try and see things from the eyes of the photographer.

Photo Restoration - update

I just finished restoring the old, damaged photo for my mother-in-law.  I left some of the "defects" in the image as I didn't want to make it too clean and take away from it's age.  A bit of a judgement call as to how much you repair/restore and how much you leave as-is.  Hopefully I chose the right point to stop.

Another photo post

I decided to post another photo from my old 35mm negatives that I have been scanning.  The films date from the 80's and 90's and bring back memories of another life in another country for me.  Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.