Rolleiflex shot of a now For Sale ice cream location. Used to be Frosty Freeze in Garwood for 20-30 years, then closed and renamed somewhere around the pandemic. Now FS again. This taken in late June, now in late July the For Lease is gone. This taken with my Rolleiflex, but needed extensive Ps work to correct perspective and clean up the area around the structure.
Behind Young Paint in Fanwood, NJ, there sits an old shed. Probably used by that business for storage. Young Paint was a great, local paint store with a bunch of very knowledgeable guys who would spend the time to work with you to get the right paint or varnish for your needs. Founded in 1957 it was a fixture of the community. I don’t know what actually happened, but I imagine it succumbed to the big box Lowes and Home Depot like so many neighboord hardware or paint stores. Regardless of the service, the big paint companies don’t want to
Quick shot of a dandelion plant trying to take over a now-abandoned garage. Sevelle’s Auto Garage, sold by the family, now slated for a pocket park and multi-family housing, just like so many old businesses around here. The days of all these gritty businesses clustered around the train lines on North and South Ave in Westfield and Garwood is numbered. Nobody wants large industrial businesses, of course. Stuff like metal bending, textile mills, ets. The time for that is LONG gone. Now the commercial businesses are being scooped up by landlords who have decided that rather than have an Auto
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Sprocket photos from Atlanta. This is 35mm, Double XX film in my Lomo LC-A 120. I did make the mistake of not setting the focus before the shot, which I find is the most irritating aspect of this camera. Because it’s so much of a Point-and-Shoot camera……and it’s viewfinder camera, i.e. no rangefinder, it’s very easy to forget to focus. What I need to do is develop a better routine when shooting these sorts of cameras, i.e. those with no focusing aid. With a rangefinder patch or an SLR’s focusing screen, it’s super-intuitive to remember to focus, or something is
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Went outside to see a lovely bush of Pink/Orange miniature rose bush that I have. It just started blooming last week and probably has 100 blooms on it. I took a few “normal” rose shots of the pretty flowers but wanted something different and I did not have a lot of time. So I took my iPhone and shot up at the sky from underneath the roses. It was too dark, of course, with the iPhone. And I just didn’t have the time to run back inside and get my “real” camera and take what I had envisioned. So I
