Farewell Kurokiba, Farewell....

Death is never more appalling then when it comes to someone who has barely begun to live. Kurokiba came to us after her mother was unable to take care of her at 19 days old. We took her in, bottle fed her and made her part of our family. Unfortunately, the long life that should have been was cut short by an illness the Vet was unable to cure and, at just 18 months, she passed from our lives.

Nikon FE2 Micro-Nikkor 55mm f2.8 Kodak Ultramax 400 Arista C-41

Scanned using a Kodak Pakon F135 Plus using Pakon's OEM scanning software.

Backyard Archeology exposures no. 2 and 5

Nikon FE2 Micro-Nikkor 55mm f2.8 Orwo UN54 ISO 100 Arista 76 1:1 - I was digging out an old cooler some previous owner buried in my backyard, and run across this. What I thought was just an old cooler appears to have been the sacred tomb of some small creature. Since the occupy being had long since departed these crumbling bones, I decided not to pass up the interesting subject. Shooting Orwo UN54 ISO 100 again, this time developed in Arista 76 diluted 1:1. This developer film/developer combination has very nice grain and sharpness with nice tonal range.

Abstract Landscape exposure no. 5

Nikon FE2 Micro-Nikkor 55mm f2.8 Orwo UN54 Adonal 1:50 -  Another shot from my first roll of Orwo UN54. At first glance it looks like a rocking outcropping on a shear cliff, but it is actually a woody outcropping on a rooting tree trunk. I took a number of frames, and it took me a week to pick the one I liked most.

Orwo UN54 in Adox Adonal 1:50 exposure no. 21

Nikon FE2 Micro-Nikkor 55mm f2.8 Orwo UN54 ISO 100 Adox Adonal 1:50 - Another from my first roll of Orwo UN54. This one really shows it's tonal range. Scanned using a Minolta Dimage Dual Scan III.

Orwo UN54 in Adox Adonal 1:50 exposure no. 12

Nikon FE2 Micro-Nikkor 55mm f2.8 Orwo UN54 Adox Adonal 1:50 - I recently bought a 100' roll of Orwo UN54 ISO 100 35mm film from Orwo North America, having read several reviews singing it's praises as a good replacement for Kodak Plus-X. Orwo was originally an East German film company, the fell into obscurity after the fall of the Soviet Union. In the Late 90's production of Monochrome films restarted in the original Orwo Wolfen Germany factory, primarily for use as motion picture film. I am a sucker for exotic film. My first roll was developed in Adox Adonal, a Rodinal equivalent, and yielded great results.

From the Archive - Fog on Hampton Roads 1980's

Nikon FE-2 Nikkor 35-105 f3.5/4.5 Kodak Tri-X 400 HC-110 Dil. B - Just a grey foggy day on Fort Monroe in Hampton VA.. Shot sometime between 1983 and 1986, most of my negative pages from that time are not labeled very well. I am just happy I still have them.

From the Archives Barnacles 1986

Nikon FE-2 Nikkor 35-105 f3.5-4.5 Kodak Plus-X 125 HC-110 Dilution B - I burned through a of film in the mid to late 80's many rolls never made is past the proof sheet phase. Interesting to go back and visit some of those "lost rolls." Shot in the back yard of my parents house on the Hampton River in Hampton, VA.. I never printed anything from this roll, in hind site, that is a shame.