Updated my Photo Portfolio with a new design. It’s real basic and easier/faster to navigate.

Also added a few new photos.

The Best of Junkparty. RIP junkparty.com 2007-2009 with 1,400 photos.

I have the Voigtlander Nokton 50/f1.1 for the next week and I’m planning on running several rolls side-by-side against my Zeiss Planar 50/f2.

I’m considering replacing the Planar with this so we’ll see. I’m a little skeptical though, since Zeiss bokeh is pretty hard to beat imo.

Stay tuned for results and photos!

It’s been a while since I’ve devloped some black and whites, mostly shooting color these days. Here’s a few from Cappadocia and Istanbul.

Hasselblad + Distagon + T-Max 100

The second roll from Istanbul. I hate dust. I know most of these are portraits, but wait until I start scanning the slide film I took on this trip!

hasselblad + planar/distagon + fuji pro 400h. click the photos for bigger view and captions.

Finished scanning my first roll from Turkey. It ended up going through this old scanner at the Aya sofya, and I’m guessing that’s the reason behind the strange colors and artifacts. No worries though.

hasselblad + planar/distagon + fuji pro 400h. click the photos for bigger view and captions.

Following up on my last post, I got the final piece to my Leica M3 kit today(hot shoe meter VCII).

Very excited.

Oh and I'm starting to sell my other camera gear too.
Hasselblad Distagon 50/f4 C T* - $600

Leaving the Hasselblad here in Turkey for keston to play around with. New, to me, Leica M3 + 50/f2 Planar waiting in Hawaii when I get back.

Taking a break from my normal fashiony setup portraits. I'm thinking street portraits for now.. if that's the right term. I think it will mesh well with my time divided by the new secret project.

Not to mention, I have at least 25 rolls of undeveloped 120 from the past several years, AND 4 rolls of provia, 1 roll of velvia, 2 fuji 400h, and some tmax from this turkey trip alone.

Magnum's Alex Webb

Very nice day today. Jacket, T-Shirt, Jeans kind of day. Keston and I walked from Uchisar through Goreme Valley to Goreme town, had tea at a merchant in the middle of no where inside the valley, got to Goreme and had some lunch, smoked some Nargile, and caught the bus back up to Uchisar. I mostly shot the Hasselblad + 50/f4 Distagon but snapped a few with the Leica M8 + 35/f2 Summicron for the blog.

Winding down the night with some french press coffee, forgot the type of coffee, and mapping out a project me and Keston are working on. Can't say though, for now, it's a secret! And it's not a photography project.

Leica M8 + 35/f2 Summicron

Keston and I took a hike around the mountains here in Uchisar, Cappadocia. We were accompanied by some random dogs who seemed to make sure we were okay and wanted to keep the wild wolves away from us.

Leica M8 + 35/f2 Summicron

Took a stroll around Uchisar today on the way to the our cave friend, Hasan. His shop is in a cave, and he sells many fine turkish items. Snow is still here, but it’s getting a little warmer. My feet get cold very fast.

Leica M8 + 35/f2 Summicron.

They say March is very unpredictable here. Three days ago it was sunny, now it’s snowing!

Today we went south to Nevsehir(in Cappadocia) and visited Derinkuyu to explore the underground christian city.

Amazing amazing experience. It was very cold and very dark, with lights on the basic path or pitch black if you wanted to head through other tunnels.

I’ll have more up later, but for now..

Taken with a Leica M8 + 35/f2 Summicron

Just arrived in Cappadocia this morning and it’s absolutely beautiful. I’ll be here for the next week so look for updates.

For now, feast on these photos:

Taken with a Leica M8 and Elmarit-Asph.

the view(click to see bigger)

the place we’re staying at

keston

lunch

the upper part of where we are staying.

entrance to our room

Ran around Istanbul today, got most of the tourist stuff out of the way.  Had lots of tea.  Walked several miles around the city.  Cold and rainy, felt good. Efes(turkish beer), and Hookah during the night.

Cell phone photos will have to do since I’m only shooting film on this trip.

Just some film I’m bringing on the trip to Turkey.

ETA < 24h

Catching up on a lot of old negatives and rolls from years ago.

Two of my friends got married in 2006 and I snapped some photos with my hassy. Not much of my style, but weddings do look amazing on real bw film. Click them to see bigger size.