As Changeable As The Weather

Easy to make a commitment to shooting mostly black and white in the middle of a gray, Chicago winter. But then Spring arrives early and you begin to rethink all your plans . . .

"Too Early Magnolias" - March 2012, Chicago, IL (Panasonic GF-1, Lumix 20mm f/1.7)

Ghost In The Machine

These were taken back in late April or early May of this year.  (Notice the trees are just beginning to bud out.)  This was the first pack of the ill-stored and expired 669 which I took out to experiment.  Blue cast is very strong and other colors are muted.  The odd developing streaks that you see on the left or top of the photos was on all of them.  When I changed to a new pack I cleaned the camera's rollers and that seemed to help, but it may have just been a quirk of that film pack.  The streaks actually work, I think, for some of these shots, giving them an ethereal, ghostly feel.