The final part of my series shot on Ilford film, with the Canon F-1 manual SLR.
As a final word, I don’t know if you can notice the film grain in these small images but, well… I find it absolutely amazing. There’s no way digital will ever be able to mimic the texture of grainy film. [...]

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Live bait dispensing machine, Goose Lake, Illinois, Ilford HP5 400 B&W film, May 2007

Grass, Goose Lake, Illinois, Ilford HP5 400 B&W film, May 2007

Overgrown barn door, Goose Lake, Illinois, Ilford HP5 400 B&W film, May 2007

Rusted grain conveyor, Illinois, Ilford HP5 400 B&W film, May 2007

Abandoned barn, [...]

Back in May of 2007 I drove with some friends somewhere south of Chicago, to a place called Goose Lake. I had the notion that the place would be interesting. I was wrong. The whole thing was flat, featureless prairie. To be truthful, there was a big lake there and a nature preserve, but it [...]

Here’s the final installment of photos from my winter beach trip. It’s high time I switched to “warmer” subjects, since it is almost summer in the northern hemisphere.

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Small correction: I mentioned in my previous post that I had shot these photos at high noon. Well, it wasn’t exactly at high noon but nevertheless the light was quite harsh. ‘Nuff said.
The first photo in this series shows the silhouette of a nuclear power plant on the shore of Lake Michigan.

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