Apocalyptic City

Storms have been skirting my city and leaving interesting cloud formations in its wake, which is a nice change of pace from the usual formless sky w get.

Most of my planned photography outings yesterday fell through, but I did manage to capture the city from a few vantage points. There is a great flood wall lining the river, as apparently decades ago the lower downtown area was prone to flooding.

I have managed to find a way around the wall, and should be shooting from the rocks you see in the river, assuming the water stays low enough to get to them.

Colour shot from my Nikon D2x, converted to B/W, with a 50mm Macro lens

Welcome to Cubeville

A 200mm lens attached to my Nikon f3hp, gives this cubist view of downtown. A sunny day just after lunch casts just the right shadows.

If only the city was as interesting as the pictures portray it to be, it'd be a fun place to explore. As it is, it's just old and rundown.

Awaiting Snow

Ok so the title of this post has nothing to do with the picture to the left, I admit that. The weatherman is predicting snow for Sunday and couple that with having Monday off (hooray for state jobs!) this will be one view I will re-visit in the snow (providing we get more than our usual 1/16 of an inch)

Taken from the same batch as the rest. Kodak B/W film, nikon f3hp, overcast day, 28mm Sipratone lens

Over the Wall

At the other end of the parking deck, there is a pretty good view of the rest of the downtown city. Here is part of it overlooking the train station.

The lens I used it pretty sharp, but I don't think the film was scanned at a high enough resolution for me. That's ok, one day I'l start doing my own scans and fix that problem.

Downtown Skyline

The parking deck near my office has installed solar panels on the very top deck. It had been closed off for some time while they were working on it, but it just reopened and I had the chance before work to see how it looked.

I've been carrying my f3hp with me and loaded with kodak (grrrr it's a drug, I'm addicted to their film) BW400CN film I'm really enjoying using it.

Results from the one hour labs are always unpredictable but that adds to the fun for me.

Graffiti

And what city scene would be complete without a little urban art? Not sure what it was supposed to mean, but it was next door to a lawyer's office, so make of that what you will.

Duality

More from the same place. There were three statues hoisting a sail, couldn't get them all in with people in the background (it was lunchtime after all) but that's ok, I'll get them on a sunday when downtown is closed.

Strength

Lunchtime stroll through downtown. I found this statue outside of a bank, hoisting a sail. As it was lunchtime it was difficult to compose with no people in the background, so I had to get in close.

The weather is just getting better which pleases me no end, hope to get a lot of shooting done.

D1x and a 20$ thrift-store lens, I'd say I got a deal :)