I chortled at this one. Night time flash shot of #lomomatic110, of a snowman I swear looks a lot more whimsical in person.

I forgot I had a red filter in the flash, which might explain some of the underexposure.


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One of the few #110film shots I was able to take during the recent NYC snow storm. #Lomomatic110 really pulled through in the middle of heavy snow - I took out my camera without thinking, only to realize the snow's heavy enough to maybe damage the electronics.

Curtains of buildings in #NYC often lightly fade away under cover of heavy snow or rain. I love those moments when the whole city turns into a hazy ink wash painting, like an old sumukhwa frame.


I think I'll really miss this scene in a few months.


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Finally got around to #caffenol developing my #110film from the recent #NYC snow storm. Not too many of the snow scenes themselves (I was stuck shoveling and pulling extra shifts) but there are some interesting photos spanning three different 110 cameras.

This is one of hand-held bulb mode attempts with #lomomatic110, into an empty lot just as the snow was beginning to accumulate on the ground.

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#lomomatic110 snapshot walking under the crisscross of overhead rail tracks webbing through court square.

Still trying to figure out how to make #110film work. It's certainly a different beast from the usual 120+toy camera combination I prefer.

There's a certain 90's newspaper print photo quality to all this that I want to explore, but I'm still figuring out how it might work.


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There's always a #110film camera in my pocket, and that often leads to mystery shots that I just can't remember ever taking, like this one.

Not the best practice, but #caffenol developing #blackandwhitefilm does allow me to take some liberties at about 30~40 cents a shot.


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One of the few #110film snap of an industrial building across the road from where I work. Taken last summer-ish. I still lament the loss of the very fascinating murals that wrapped around the entire building. It's all been painted over in the course of a single night into drab, dead gray.

One of these days I really need to ask round for history of the erased paintings.

The whole neighborhood is changing to accommodate more expensive condos. What's the future for people like me in the city, I wonder.


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Old snap I took during #momaps1 Julien Ceccaldi exhibition, #lomomatic110 with OrcaBW #110film

While this is part of a global trend, PS1 exhibitions are always great at working with the museum space as an integral part of the curation. Current Ayoung Kim and Vaginal Davis exhibits are great examples of how they approach usage of space as part of the narrative as well.

Speaking of space - I've used quite a number of 110 cameras by now, and lomomatic is turning out to be a unique beast among them. Shots I take with 110 shooters of the era, like the Minolta I took on my train trip, render as expected within the film mask. The image is designed to sit within the frame.

The lomomatic, I'm beginning to realize, might be intentionally engineered to have its images spill out into the frames. I like it, but I can also see other photographers not being too crazy about it.

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Something I did with bulb mode long exposure using #lomomatic110 - but I'm at a complete loss to what I actually did, or what I took the photo of.

Undisciplined snapshot like this isn't the best practice, but at least this one resulted in a very unusual looking image.

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#lomomatic110 testing out bulb mode shenanigans while hurriedly moving about at work. I like how this one turned out.

Even accounting for my crummy scanning setup, #110film is based on 16mm cuts and fundamentally lossy. Accurate and full representation of the view is not really the strength of the format.

I originally began shooting in 16mm (hand spooled and otherwise) due to personal circumstances rather than preference (cost, minimal storage, moving often). But now, I feel 16mm type film as a medium changes the photography for me, from a tool of documentation to rendering with silver, light and coffee, much like sketching.


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#lomomatic110 snap, peeking out around the Union Square area.

Historic buildings in downtown Manhattan, especially the early cast iron ones from the Civil War era are particularly beautiful and always stand out from the environment.

The building with white columns in the center is an especially storied one, designed by Griffith Thomas and built in the mid-1860's. Originally made for a Tobacco magnate to be used as an office-distribution-business building in a busy mercantile area (as all buildings were back then), this is one of the many downtown lofts later taken over by artists post WW2.

I believe this was William de Kooning's last #nyc haunt before he moved out to the Hamptons.

Some people, new yorkers included, seem to think these downtown locations somehow feel European which I think is nonsense. Their planning, layout and design are all unmistakably American and New York, reflecting needs of the bustling Civil War era city that required practical, high ceiling buildings adaptable to high traffic business and manufacturing needs. The same airiness ended up being a boon to visual artists requiring a ton of wide open space and light in the later generation.


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