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Jersey City as seen from Battery Park
Every once in a while I happen to come across this rare day where everything is just about perfect: The weather, the location, the lot.
This happened to me today, more to the point, around 7.30am in Battery Park. It's too early for the tourist to have flooded and spoiled the place, so all you will encounter is the handful of locals doing an early work-out as well as a few people dipping their fishing rods into the Hudson.
I've fallen into the habit of never taking more than one lens with me. This morning, it was the Sears 135mm f/2.8 (which I had to replace several times till I finally got a specimen with a working diaphragm), with a yellow-green filter screwed onto it. Camera was the Pentax K2 whose metering I've come to trust better than that of my smaller ME Super.
This morning would have maybe called for color film but Ilford Delta 400 was what I had. I shot it at ASA 200 and developed it in Ilfotec DD-X for six minutes at 20/68 deg.
Jersey City as seen from Battery Park
Every once in a while I happen to come across this rare day where everything is just about perfect: The weather, the location, the lot.
This happened to me today, more to the point, around 7.30am in Battery Park. It's too early for the tourist to have flooded and spoiled the place, so all you will encounter is the handful of locals doing an early work-out as well as a few people dipping their fishing rods into the Hudson.
I've fallen into the habit of never taking more than one lens with me. This morning, it was the Sears 135mm f/2.8 (which I had to replace several times till I finally got a specimen with a working diaphragm), with a yellow-green filter screwed onto it. Camera was the Pentax K2 whose metering I've come to trust better than that of my smaller ME Super.
This morning would have maybe called for color film but Ilford Delta 400 was what I had. I shot it at ASA 200 and developed it in Ilfotec DD-X for six minutes at 20/68 deg.