december 29, 2008- switzerland

zurich traffic

reflections in glass barriers along the autobahn

albert driving tour bus blur

baden- tor blur mit fenster schmutz

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mirrors- arosa, switzerland

double self portrait in bathroom mirrors- grand hotel tschuggen, arosa, switzerland- 12.28.2008

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voodoo xmas tree

shot at my friend edmund's house in the early 90s

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cindy sherman/lucas samaras syndrome

i feel like i must have [or people must think i have] cindy sherman/lucas samaras syndrome, what with all the self portraits i post. i think i "shoot myself" mostly out of boredom. i'll see a polaroid or my digital camera lying around, pick it up and "click"; sometimes i get an interesting result...sometimes not. the sx-70 w/600 film usually yields something of interest, just because the film is too fast for the camera.

what i like about CS and LS is that they created situations/sets and posed IN them; photographers shooting portraits of themselves as other people/subjects. i havent quite gotten to that, except for halloween/mardi gras shots!

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digital of sx-70 blur

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self portraits

plane blur-self portrait- december 8, 2008

self portrait- reflection in a shop window switzerland - december 22.2008

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partial camera collection in switzerland

these are only a few of my cameras here in switzerland... even though i've carted most home, there are more here in the shelves, night stands, under the bed and couch... and god knows where else. i'm like an alcoholic who stashes his liquor then forgets where he hid it! and of course, not remembering, i brought even more with me! [not shown]

i plan to use the oldie Agfa medium formats to shoot in zermatt next trip up/down on the train, and/or while there... i need some medium format FILM shots of the mountains, snow, streams, etc. i didn't bring the rollei or the yashicamat...so, fixed focus is gonna have to do.

i recently went to new orleans for prospect 1- and took over 30 cameras, which ALL had film in them that i had meant to shoot- to test the cameras. out of the 30, i might have finished off only 5 rolls! oh well... at least they're loaded for when i head home.
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train shooting -december 17. 2008- switzerland

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train window- cameras etc

my reflection in the train window -bern- dec.09.2008

i left most of my cameras in Louisiana. i tried to pare down and only brought my nikon, a diana, 2 plastic vivitars, polaroid sx70, my sony video camera- 2 casio exilims. i might have thrown my old kodak pony 135 in my suitcase- it makes great double exposures. i also have an arsenal over here- my friend boris brought me a lot of old russian cameras a while back- and i have some others that i left here; a great old kowa, and maybe one of my all time favorites: a cosina.

my one big entertainment when here [europe] -when I"M not entertaining- is hitting the 2nd hand shops, and salvation army stores in search of cameras and lenses. i have gotten some real treasures. so, i know i'll be adding to the collection while here. it's a disease.

unfortunately it is so cold at the moment here in zermatt - minus 10 Celsius- that i have not been going out to shoot anything at all. i shot a bunch of digital stuff en route and from the train, but, haven't even been making photos in the hotel or the bar since i got here. i wrap up and walk out on the balcony to smoke, and shoot the matterhorn, daily... as it is just right there. but i have never been real big on landscape photography- except for the funky south.

i hope to do some night shots in bern and zurich -for the blur series- once i am off the mountain. but there are some great old barns and things here- hundreds of years old- that i should shoot; stuff i've probably already shot... since i have been coming here since the mid 90s.
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strangers from a train

self portrait reflected in the train window

entering bern by train

escalators- bern haupt bahnhof- 12.09.2008

train window reflections -bern to visp- december 09, 2008

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yashica self portrait

i found this small yashica rangefinder in a junk shop here in louisiana- this self portrait was a test in low light.
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keychain digital cam

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the lennon shrine- shot at enochs- 10.9..2008

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papa's got a brand new blog

as if i didn't have enough blogs and merde flying around, i put up another blog of "VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY" [as i found it was called] meaning= old found photos; i discovered that 'name' in some magazine i saw in the doctor's office.

i've been collecting old photos & negatives for years; starting with my family's. i got my mom and dad's, grandmother's, and several aunt's collections. i began buying them in thrift stores as well. i've been buying up all the old slides i can find in European thrift stores [it amazes me that family's would throw them out!] and i have huge boxes full- literally thousands of slides- in switzerland. i scanned a lot over the years and saved them [at hi-resolution, in case i decided to print any] to my computer, so decided to begin showing some online in lower resolution.

i also collect old cameras- and have sometimes found unfinished rolls of film in them. i had some of the film processed at wally-world, but after finding some semi risque stuff, was a bit afraid of what MIGHT be on there; you never know! so, i hand process any b&w, now! but i have several rolls of color 620 film i found in cameras that need to be sent off. i've also bought negatives in junk stores, which i scan.

on the new blog, i am mixing the format: images from slides, fotos, negatives, polaroids etc which i have found or bought. i really find them fascinating. i've even considered editing [cleaning up, possibly grey scaling] some of them and exhibiting them. the slides/Polaroids- ARE the originals, and therefore the 'negative'- and since i bought them, i own them, and therefore the copyrights. SO an exhibit/and possible sale of some of them is possible in the future.

as said, i own thousands of vintage slides. i plan to eventually donate them to the fotomuseum in winterthur, switzerland- since the majority of the stuff is swiss, shot by swiss... and needs to stay in switzerland, where future generations of swiss [and foreign visitors to the museum] can enjoy them.
i would also have the peace of mind of knowing they would be cared for.

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shots from the 1st post katrina mardi gras- new orleans 2006

new orleans non blur

decatur street

a wall on decatur street

st. paul church of god in christ- lower 9th

circle food store and interstate over-pass

[now defunct] st. roch fish market [the good gumbo & po-boys... gone!]

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more new orleans blur

some shots from harrah's casino- new orleans- september 27, 2008

brass band & dancers- harrah's casino- new orleans 10.27.08

okay... call me crazy, but i think these 'brass band' fotos look like impressionist paintings! they look timeless. i've scanned these negatives at very high resolution to be blown up 3 feet by 5 feet! yeah baby! can't wait to see them! BUT i might just make 16 x 20 prints from the negatives, myself... old school.

steve at the slot machines

masked sculpture- harrah's- new orleans

and one from jackson square!

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SX-70 enochs- MLU- 10.05.08

i stopped by enoch's tonight [10.05.08], and took some shots w/the sx-70- decided before developing negatives to scan and photoshop and post these. i did nothing to the originals [no tricks] but scan, gray scale, then EQ the levels.
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supply & demand

i just went to B&H and Adorama to price peel apart pack film- for my Land cameras and was shocked to see the jump in prices! Fuji has taken up the mantle of Polaroid and is cheaper, BUT the old B&WPolaroid peel apart pack film is the best- has the best tones. i did some series in Prague, Bern, and on Hwy 80 [from monroe to vicksburg] w/it and got some really good stuff.
thank god a friend gave me about 400 packs of 600 color instant pack film- which i have in 3 different refrigerators- and will use with the sx70 and my normal Polaroid cameras. i love the land cameras and their reults BUT on prinicple i am NOT going to 'go there' at the moment... and since i have a few backs in reserve. i can always shoot the 600 color, scan it at 4800 dpi, greyscale, and edit in photoshop. c'est la vie... mais, quel que fois, la vie est merde, absolutement!
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sookie & sebi blurs- shreveport- sx70

sept 24th, 2008- shreveport- post benfit jam fotos- drinking and playing dress up. the sx70 is great for this- due to 600 film being 4x too fast for the camera, it usually works well in low light situations. it also has a focus wheel, and lighten/darken wheel, BUT i sometimesforgot to focus, which is all the better... like thomas ruff! okay NOT that extreme yet!

foto stats: shot with polaroid sx-70 camera; polaroid 600 instant pack film; greyscaled, cropped and equalized in photoshop
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MLU 6AM

my friend chip white @ the monroe airport about 6AM - ran into him at walgreen the night before- hadn't seen him since NYC early 90s. he and Sebi -my bassist from switzerland- were taking the same flight to Newark. 09.30.08
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miroslav tichy

i LOVE miroslav tichy - his work and the fact that he built all the crazy cameras, lenses and enlargers he used to make incredible fotos. this man was committed- in more ways than one.
this article about him is really interesting as are the videos HERE and HERE
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art crawl- monroe, louisiana SX-70 SHOTS

foto stats: shot with polaroid sx-70 camera; polaroid 600 instant pack film; greyscaled, cropped and equalized in photoshop
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