In addition to taking photography classes in college I studied drawing and painting. My style at the time was “figurative” but looked more like abstract expressionism. I started paintings thinking about the figure but it became abstracted.
Now with not enough time and space to do paintings, I’m trying to express my painterly sensibilities with some of the color photographs I make. My aesthetic is now more minimalist and I am trying to capture moments in which someone like myself would see something and ponder something else. The subject is therefore the scene a framed 2-dimensional moment in time. I hope to have time to actually paint some of these on a large canvas but for now they are in color negative and digital form, waiting….
Camera/ Image notes: the above images were taken with a Yashica Electro35MC and old, expired CVS brand color film I found at my uncle’s house. They where in a dusty old case stashed away in a cool dark place and I estimate the film to be around 20 years old. I read that people think Fuji made the CVS brand film. The Yashica has a clouded viewfinder window and a little corrosion at the flash mount but its 40mm f2.8 Copal lens makes wonderful images. Shutter speed is automatic and it only uses zone focusing which I am used to doing with the Leica M6 on the street. An interesting “feature” on this camera is that the winder slips at the end of the roll so I get double or triple exposures on the last frame. I highly recommend the Yashica Electro35MC for everyday or even travel film photography. It is pocketable in a jacket and you can find a whole kit for around $70 on eBay.
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