Monument Valley.
On the great scenic route 12 near Bryce Canyon, Utah.
the Little Colorado River near Grand Canyon.
OK here there is a trick, this is an infrared picture in Zion nat’l park, Utah.
My beautiful Rolleiflex 3.5F, a medium format twin lens reflex that uses 6x6 cm negatives. This vintage great beast is from 1961, But older models from the 30’s , barely different, are still out there doing great pictures. Not the easiest camera to use but it gives great pleasure.
a 1961 Rolleiflex 3.5F medium format to be precise.
The advantage of a ‘weird’ Rolleiflex Twin Lens Reflex is that it looks so special that people don’t see it as a threat. Maybe these 2 pretty girls wouldn’t have posed and smiled at me had I been pointing with a bulky modern digital reflex and big lens… then they may have seen the link between my vintage camera and their vintage Vespa?
this other pretty unaware model didn’t even notice me. Special feat of the Rolleiflex: the usual position to shoot is to hold the camera on your belly. People sometimes don’t even notice you're snapping away.
on the Trocadéro scene.
Spring in Paris, "à la Doisneau", that is a with an old Rolleiflex camera, his favorite.
shot with a 1961 Rolleiflex 3.5F, medium format
a wink to Cartier-Bresson, a man in partial profile with family eating on the Seine bank.
that is a vintage 1961 Rolleiflex 3.5F
Notre-Dame.
Montmartre, caricature artist at work.
Le Sacré-Coeur
people shot in various locations in Paris.
Buttes Chaumont.
le bassin de la Villette.
playing steel balls, aka pétanque. Far from the French stereotype, right? No black beret, no cigarette,no sleeveless shirt and no baguette under the armpit.
Opéra Garnier.
Paris without terraces would quite a different city.
all shot on a medium format camera from 1961, a Rolleiflex.
The pictures above were shot on a 1961 Rolleiflex 3.5F and B/W films. And below with a Nikon D300s, edited in B/W and cropped square. Interesting how digital is more and more used for old results. B/W, sepia, cyanotype,…even the imitation of various types of films is now available and sought after!
Paris, spring 2011. Street photography with a vintage camera, a 1961 Rolleiflex.
nail painting any time of the day was not an unusual scene.
many girls were smart and graceful….the legendary Parisiennes… (of course some might be tourists but tourists wherever they go tend to be poorly dressed, no?)
near the Trocadéro.
suddenly these tuk tuks were all over the place in Paris. I don’t remember them the previous years….
Karine and I thought this detail of the Eiffel looked like a piece of sexy underpants dividing imaginary buttocks.
place de la Madeleine.
all shot on a 1961 Rolleiflex 3.5F and b/w films
Spring 2011 in Paris, perfect weather. After the Fukushima accident, people were protesting even more than before. Here a lady at the place de la Bastille, symbolic place….
within the Louvre perimeter.
fireman on duty.
notice the old fashioned contraption to carry a hose.
scooters are all the rage in such a congested city. The old Vespa style still gather many aficionados.
all shot on a 1961 Rolleiflex medium format camera and B/W films.
I know it looks awfully touristic but these guys are often real artists. In Montmartre around the Sacré-Coeur, dozen of them offer their services.
le Sacré-Coeur.
Place de la Bastille.
2 views of Notre-Dame.
booksellers alongside the Seine. I just love wandering near these books shops, I’ve found great stuff there.
All above hot on b/w films and with a vintage Rolleiflex camera from 1961.
a little walk in Montmartre with a vintage 1961 Rolleiflex camera, stepping in Robert Doisneau’s steps.
notice the pink spot on the right lower side of the picture: vegetation which showed after some prolonged rains.
shot on Kodak Aerochrome EIR film and Rolleiflex 3.5F medium format camera.
these 2 lovely girls happily posed for me. I guess using a vintage camera like a Rolleiflex helps. It looks so much out of place one doesn’t look like a perv’ with a bazooka lens?
Opéra Garnier, a band member.
view from the Trocadéro.
happy couple, Louvre. I watched a bit and it seemed to me people, even kids didn’t really pay attention anymore. I guess the intolerant bunch stayed away…As said before, no chance to see girls behaving like this in some parts of the world…
Billy boys posing for a pro photographer behind me.
a bridge, Ile St-Louis, girls making up.
