Manhattan Grotesque

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I don’t remember exactly where this was. It’s in the same batch as a number of pictures taken at the Museum of Modern Art in New York so I’m guessing that it was somewhere in the vicinity i.e in the 50’s just west of Fifth Avenue.

I know it was taken with a Sony NEX 5N but Lightroom provides not information regarding the lens used so it must have been one of my many adapted vintage lenses, but I don’t recall which one.

New Portfolio – Black and White

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I’ve added a new portfolio: Black and White.

It turned out to be more difficult than I thought. It seems that I have a lot of black and white pictures.

They fall into a few distinct categories:

  • Digital pictures originally in color, but converted to black and white, often using Nik Silver Efex Pro 2. Rarely digital images taken in black and white. The bulk of my black and white images fall into this category
  • Color negatives and old prints, usually in color. Scanned and then converted to black and white, often using Nik Silver Efex Pro
  • Black and White negatives. Scanned.

I went through a large number of negatives to come up with 20 for the portfolio. It wasn’t always clear to me why I had selected some for conversion and not others. I fear that often if I had a color image that I didn’t really like I would see what it looked like converted to black and white.

Going forward I’m hoping to be more discriminating with the images I choose for conversion. I also hope to take more black and white negatives.

House Cricket

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For as long as I can remember we’ve had, from time to time, crickets make an appearance in our house.

I believe they live in the crawl space and make occasional forays into the lower level of the house. They don’t bother me and I’m hesitant to get rid of them. The thing is that our house is probably their entire universe. We’ve been there for twenty years and I’ve been seeing these crickets throughout that time period. Since I imagine crickets down have a particularly long life span, we’re talking about generation after generation of crickets.

The funny thing is that, unlike other crickets I’ve encountered, they never make any noise.

Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.