Scanning and Developing Roulette: A Procrastinating Game

So, I am a procrastinator who photographs a lot. shooting daily for myself on sometimes up three cameras (dslr, iphone, 35mm film).  I can fall way behind in processing, archiving and editing.  Luckily for me, I am highly organized in my archiving and I do upload the digital files on a regular basis. It’s the black and white analog film situation that I am way behind in, like a year backed up. In not only scanning the film, but also processing and developing. the rolls.  I have bags of undeveloped film, dating back to Kay and I’s two week west coast road trip last June 2011, OY! The fun part, so says my brain, is when I do get my butt in the dark room to develop, I am always surprised on what I pull out of the tanks. The last batch of processed rolls included a few current day to last year Austin rolls to the Redwood Forest, a lot of  shots I totally forgot  snapping, until the minute I lay them on the light table.

I am still back logged, I can’t stop shooting, yesterday after about two weeks of not shooting any film ( I was out and was trying to not add to my load), with a fresh 200 ft of film in the house, I rolled a canister, biked and photographed on two cameras. These are the iphone images. The 35mm roll is still in my camera, got about half more to shoot, then well, it’ll go in the mix.

Today, it a  well needed rainy Tuesday in Austin, the perfect day to sit home and scan some of those random rolls. All the following black and white images were shot on my Nikon F100 over the last year and scanned today, the color images are the matching ones taken with my iPhone.

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Fort Clark and Krispy Kreme- Shot 03.08.12 during a walk around south Austin while “Gina” got an oil change at South Point KIA (I35 and Stassney)

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Same spot/street corner photographed in 2008 (click here).

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Parking lot Gibson and South Congress, Austin, TX

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Congress Ave and Annie or Mary, Austin, TX between Jan-March 2012

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2100 and Guadalupe 3.28.10 at 1:28pm

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iphone 4 #instagram

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walking around West Campus – March 28 2012 around 2:00pm

I moonlight as a server at Perla’s Seafood and Oyster bar, one of the “perks” of the working in the service industry is the food and wine knowledge acquired through “tasting”. Lee Ann holds monthly wine classes at our sister restaurant Lambert’s for all employees. Each month, she focuses on a region. February’s class was Champagne, France. As a bonus, Lee Ann invited her friend, June Rodil, Beverage Director and Sommelier for Congress Austin to demostrate “How to saber a bottle”

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iphone, Perla's champagne tasting, Lambert's Austin, TX 3.28.12

More random shots on a roll shot around Austin in February 2012.

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South Congress, Austin, TXImage

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Walking Iso around our old hood, Emerald Forest and Aberdeen Dr.

Austin: live music, food and wine festival

Everyone knows Austin, TX is a music town, it is known as “Live Music Capitol of the World”. The secret is slowly getting out, Austin is a food town. It seems like overnight this breakfast taco and BBQ loving city has turned into a culinary destination. You can’t walk or bike 5 feet within seeing a food trailer. Not sure if you would ever eat at a food trailer: current Top Chef winner Paul Qui,  is the chef of the  East Side King food trailers.

If you weren’t convinced of Austin’s food scene: Last week, we were invaded by celebrity chefs, tv personality’s and foodies from all over for the  first annual Austin Food and Wine Festival.

To kick-off the festival- The Food Republic (co-founded by Marcus Samuelson) set-up an Interview Lounge and Test Kitchen at the W Austin. I was lucky enough to be Food Republic’s still photographer.

Here are a selection of portraits from the W.

Andrew Zimmern, Bizarre Foods

(L-R) Chef Pichet Ong and Trace Executive Pastry Chef Janina O’Leary. Matt Hines, musician/ The Eastern Sea

La Condesa Pastry Chef Laura Sawicki and Executive Chef Rene Ortiz

Brad Orrison, Black Angels/The Shed BBQ.

Team Uchi/Uchiko Chef’s: Tyson Cole, Paul Qui (Top Chef Winner) and Philip Speer.

Food Republic co-founder Chef Marcus Samuelsson

Food Republic co-founder Chef Marcus Samuelsson

Gail Simmons, Top Chef judge

Chef Tim Love of Woodshed

Welcome Sign and a reminder

As always, Austin.

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Looking at this image in on my digital contact sheet, aka Lightroom, it reminded to look at my Arms: http://www.joannsantangelo.com/armsofprogress

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Las Manitas and the building of The Austonian

Arms of Progress: a series of black and white photos taken during daily bike rides around Austin:  October 2006 – August 2008.

 

 


Welcome Sign and a reminder

As always, Austin.

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Looking at this image in on my digital contact sheet, aka Lightroom, it reminded to look at my Arms: http://www.joannsantangelo.com/armsofprogress

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Las Manitas and the building of The Austonian

Arms of Progress: a series of black and white photos of the “building of Austin” taken during daily bike rides around Austin:  October 2006 – August 2008.


back to the dark

I’m a constant clicker. I am always photographing on film and with my iphone. I document my daily life in my house, my night job at Perlas and my travels via bike or foot

Problem is I am not always developing, scanning, editing. At least I haven’t for the last year. Now it’s time to go back to the dark. Time to develop, edit,scan, and print all that film, all the frames I’ve been clicking away for the last year.  A few weeks ago, I started the first step: develop the film. Today, I started another step, scanning.

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This image was taken April 2011

In the last week I developed 12 rolls of film, I have a back log of over 20 rolls and growing daily. Excited to see what develops. Image