Tweed Ride Photo Booth #3

Pentax 67 w/105mm f2.4

Kodak PlusX in HC110 dil.B

Every year I photograph people at the Triangle Tweed Ride in downtown Raleigh. It's the part of the week-long Oaks and Spokes Festival where dapper gents and sassy lasses get together for a Sunday afternoon bike ride & picnic at the park, all while dressed in their finest vintage clothing. I take my portable studio set-up and do portraits, and there's always lots of great faces. While the vast majority of the shots I take are captured digitally, I just can't help but bring along a film camera to shoot for fun. The last 2 years I shot 4x5 Polaroids, but this year it was my latest acquisition, a 120 roll film Pentax 67 with the amazing 105mm lens. The whole gallery is here.

Tweed Ride Photo Booth #2

Pentax 67 w/105mm f2.4

Kodak PlusX in HC110 dil.B

Every year I photograph people at the Triangle Tweed Ride in downtown Raleigh. It's the part of the week-long Oaks and Spokes Festival where dapper gents and sassy lasses get together for a Sunday afternoon bike ride & picnic at the park, all while dressed in their finest vintage clothing. I take my portable studio set-up and do portraits, and there's always lots of great faces. While the vast majority of the shots I take are captured digitally, I just can't help but bring along a film camera to shoot for fun. The last 2 years I shot 4x5 Polaroids, but this year it was my latest acquisition, a 120 roll film Pentax 67 with the amazing 105mm lens. The whole gallery is here.

Tweed Ride Photo Booth #1

Pentax 67 w/105mm f2.4

Kodak PlusX in HC110 dil.B

Every year I photograph people at the Triangle Tweed Ride in downtown Raleigh. It's the part of the week-long Oaks and Spokes Festival where dapper gents and sassy lasses get together for a Sunday afternoon bike ride & picnic at the park, all while dressed in their finest vintage clothing. I take my portable studio set-up and do portraits, and there's always lots of great faces. While the vast majority of the shots I take are captured digitally, I just can't help but bring along a film camera to shoot for fun. The last 2 years I shot 4x5 Polaroids, but this year it was my latest acquisition, a 120 roll film Pentax 67 with the amazing 105mm lens. The whole gallery is here.

Portraits From Bentonville #8

Pentax 67 w/105mm f2.4

PlusX in HC110 dilB

Scanned from the negative

Portraits From Bentonville #7

Pentax 67 w/105mm f2.4

PlusX in HC110 dilB

Scanned from the negative

Portraits From Bentonville #6

Pentax 67 w/105mm f2.4

PlusX in HC110 dilB

Scanned from the negative

This one is sort of a follow-up from the last one, with an interesting side story… When I arrived at the Bentonville reenactment and started looking for shots, this gentleman was the first person I spotted. He had started a small fire and was heating up a snack of salt pork (that explains the look on his face in the previous photo!) I shot these two frames, thanked him and moved on. Shortly I realized that I'd failed to get his contact info so if the shots were great I could send him a copy. Walked back but didn't see him. The rest of the day I was pretty good about collecting email addresses.

After I posted the previous shot I got a message from a Facebook friend who recognized him and got me in touch! Amazing. There were hundreds of re-enacters out there- what are the odds? Small world.

Portraits From Bentonville #5

Pentax 67 w/105mm f2.4

PlusX in HC110 dilB

Scanned from the negative

Portraits From Bentonville #4

 Pentax 67 w/105mm f2.4

PlusX in HC110 dilB

Scanned from the negative

Portraits From Bentonville #3

Pentax 67 w/105mm f2.4

PlusX in HC110 dilB

Scanned from the negative

Portraits From Bentonville #2

Pentax 67 w/105mm f2.4

PlusX in HC110 dilB

Scanned from the negative

Portraits From Bentonville #1

Pentax 67 w/105mm f2.4

PlusX in HC110 dilB

Scanned from the negative

I attended the 150th Battle of Bentonville Civil War reenactment and shot a series of portraits with black & white medium format film. I still have a lot to scan, so there will be more of these soon!