Category Archives: Lomography
Weekend Reflections – Lafortune Park
James B. Ross, The Best Drummer in Tulsa
I took my new camera out for a test run the other day. The funky one on the right is the Lomography Fisheye No. 2. It has a field of view of 170 degrees. In other words it will take a photograph of everything it is pointed at. The results are a little distorted. Which I love.
It’s a film camera which means that learning how to use can be a little expensive. I took a bunch of pics on my first roll. Not very many are presentable.
While taking a late lunch downtown a man asked me if I would take his picture. Little did he know.
His name is James B. Ross, he is new to town, and he said that he is the best drummer in town. He said that is saying a lot because Tulsa is a music town and is known to have great musicians. He just came here and is staying at the Salvation Army Shelter. He asked me if I knew that they had whole families down there. I said yep, I know.
Anyway he is between gigs and doesn’t have a drum set. He told me, “No worries, it may take me a while but you will be hearing from me again.”
He asked if he could see the pictures I took of him. I told him that I can’t because its a film camera. He looked at me and laughed. “I’m so sorry man, the new cameras are digital. You need to get one. So you can see what you are doing.”
Have you ever had a homeless guy feel sorry for you?
Good luck James B. Ross, I’m going to keep my ear to the ground for you.
Signs, Signs – Central Library
I’m a big fan of libraries. Tulsa has an excellent system of libraries scattered all over the City and County of Tulsa.
Two views of the sign at the west door for Central Library of the Tulsa City County Library System.
You’ll find me at lunch at the library two or three times a week using their free wifi to play Scrabble and Words with Friends on my ipod or actually checking out books. I’ve been doing that for about 20 years now.
My fellow patrons are in doing their homework, listening to music, reading newspapers and magazines. For some, they are getting a respite from the cold. Everybody is treated with respect. I love libraries.
Outdoor Wednesday – Dance With Me
I love trees, I love’m in the summer with all their leaves and I love them in the winter when you can see their bones. I love how they adapt to each other as they compete for sunlight.
This grove of trees looks like a wild dance party to me.
“Oh come and dance with me, my baby
Let’s dance, till we go crazy
The night is young and so are we…
…Let the music hypnotize
Let our bodies synchronize
One dance and you’ll be mine…”
Do you see it?
No? Do you see my son SuperPizzaBoy swinging to the beat?
Not only do I love trees, I love film also.
Skywatch Friday – Winter
A scene from one of my running trails in south Tulsa. The grass is dead, the leaves have dropped and we can see the “bones” of the trees. Trees amaze me how they make space for each other. These two seem like they are dancing.
Metal Art
At the Garden Diva in Tulsa. Right across the street from The Church (see yesterday’s post.)
Lomography Walls
As some of you know I sometimes I use a a film camera. A Diana Mini. The use of cheap film cameras to capture images is called Lomography.
Lomography has a feature where members can create mosaics very simply. The mosaics are called Lomowalls and are quite popular. Here are a few Lomowalls I have created recently. I think they are pretty self explanatory.
SuperPizzaBoy and his friend jumping on the trampoline in our back yard.
Swinging at a local park before his comedy improv class.
Swinging at a State Park during a camping trip.
His style of camping. Bringing along electronic entertainment.
Related articles
- Lomography (markharless.wordpress.com)
Lomographic Oops!!
As some of you know I have been experimenting with a Diana Mini 35 mm camera. I’ve had a lot of fun with it but sometimes I struggle.
(I’m sorry I love my boys smile.)
Sometimes I screw up. A roll of film takes about 24 photographs in the standard mode. The last roll of film I put in seemed to be taking lots and lots of pics. Apparently the film wasn’t in the sprockets quite right so it kind of “slid” along. The negative strip looks like a continuous exposure.
(I love pumpkins and all things Orange in the Fall, no I’m not an OSU fan.)
When I picked up the photo cd from Walgreens and looked at the index print it seemed like I had about 60 photos on the the roll. They were all jammed up together and partially double exposed. Most of the result didn’t look too good (although the Lomography folks love mistakes. The encourage the practice of double exposure where you take pictures with a roll of film and then give it to somebody else to take another set of pictures with the same roll and then see what you got.)
As I looked at them though I thought there were a few that were not half bad. Like the top pair of photos of SuperPizzaBoy on a fishing trip. The next pair are of a pumpkin town near our house. I liked the one above. I cropped it because the edges didn’t fit the sun on the river.
The above is a mash up of SuperPizzaBoy swinging. I intended to do multi-exposure but on three different pictures so I have about six images superimposed on the one frame. Full confession, the frame was so overexposed I used Picnick.com to increase the contrast. I think the Lomo police are going to come take my camera, do any of you care?
I’m going to continue experimenting. I love the old timey feel of the photos. I know it doesn’t make any sense.
Do you ever do anything that doesn’t make any sense?
Related articles
- Lomography: A world of film and plastic cameras (framework.latimes.com)
Woof Woof Grrr Woof
My Diana Mini lomo camera has an option where it shoots half frame shots. In other words I can take two photographs in the space of one frame of film.
I’m not sure why they did it that way but it means that I can put two related subjects together like the photographs above sharing a frame. It was the same house bordering a city park and I think maybe the homeowner is a little tired of the dog walkers in the park fouling his fence.
Note that one sign is for the dogs and one for their owners.