Yesterday after a shoot, I walked onto the beach near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. I was testing out my old 5×7 wood field camera (read about it 2 posts down). I had one film holder which holds two sheets of film. I shot one photo of the bridge and another of a nice couple that was curious about the camera. They did this spontaneous piggy-back thing. I’ll do a few more tests before I decide to try some color film. Only Kodak still makes 5×7 color film and it costs $4.00/sheet + developing. This is Efke 100 film which costs $.70/sheet and I can develop it myself. It’s not cheap, but I like that I have to slow down and that I only get a couple shots. It’s the opposite of digital SLR which is fast and unlimited.
It’s been a while since I last posted. I’ve been spending free time on a vegetable garden and framing photos for the house. However, as part of an ongoing personal project, I did attend the Foxfield Races on April 25th. For those of you who don’t know what it is, please visit robertowestbrook.com and click Foxfield for a description. I wanted to make some portraits of jockeys this year to show a different side of the race, but the PR person shot me down. This was the response to my request, “I just went to your website and what you write and choose to show about the races is the worst behavior of Foxfield. I do not feel to expose the jockeys to your point of view.” So instead, I was confined to the infield photographing the revelers. Seems like that was not the desired outcome for either one of us. I’ll post a few more in the coming days.
