Little Dudes

Stuart, Fl 

April 17'

Canon 1v, 28-70L, Ilford HP5 @ 1600 in Ilfosol 3

Mr. Elevator @ Calhoun Street

Calhoun Street

6/2/2017 Fort Wane, Indiana 

Lights: Dr. Roberts Ocular Odyssey

Mr. Elevator  Heaven's Gateway Drugs

Pretty fortunate to have caught this show. Mr. Elevator(and the brain hotel) a synth/organ pop-psych band with hints of a dark circus and genuine chaos from LA. And the local band, Heaven's Gateway Drugs, who's sound, personally, places them as good contenders in the Desert-Psych ring despite their MidWestern origins. HGD has been a loud voice amongst many artists within the Fort Wayne area helping to carve out their own niche putting Fort Wayne on the psych radar. This show had me really second guessing the amount of radical material to feed our brains with, and assumptions about lands yet to be visited need to be re-thought. There's a small, but modest, pocket of enthusiasm for the psychedelic with some really fresh specimens for the lobes to snack on. A heart warming sentiment sweetened by the fact these sounds and caliber of characters were experienced outside of the well established musical meccas within the United States supporting the notion that the big name cities aren't the end all be all when it comes to the psychedelic genre. 

Canon A1 & 1v ; Ilford 3200 @ 6400 in Ilfolsol 3 (1/14)

agitation kept to a minimum with only 2 inversions every 2 minutes.

 

Zoo Days

Naples Zoo

Naples, Fl. March 17'

Canon A2e, Fuji superia 800

 

Picayune Strand

A large patch of swamp land with a checkered past... Scooped up by the feds from the inhabiting ranchers for wetland conservation and sold to a development firm. The Gulf American Land Corp. cleared out large blocks of heavy jungly forest and laid paved roads to accommodate the 30,000 planned lots over the 60,000 acre area creating the largest sub-division in America, Golden Gate Estates. The canals that were cut to drain the swamp land were inadequate and failed to keep the wetland habitable year round. The project proved a failure but the lots continued to be sold never to be actually fully developed associating "selling swampland" with "selling the Brooklyn Bridge." In the years later the paved roads we used by drug smugglers as landing strips and also made for a good place to make body disappear. In 85' the Save Our Everglades conservation program put up $25mil to purchase close to 17,000 of the nefariously sold lots back from the dupped snowbirds, creating the Picayune Strand State Forest

I took a turn off a dirt path that ran through a wildlife preserve I was driving through. I crept through a few miles of trail that was less than friendly to a Toyota Corolla. The trail opened up to paved roads complete with road signs canals and bridges in the middle of no where, a little surreal when you don't know the information mentioned above.

Shot with a heavy red filter and Stand developed in a 1+9 dilution of Ilford ddx; agitation for the first minute then left to sit for 45min.

Canon A2e, 24 & 50mm, Ilford Hp5 @ 1600 

Xmas 2016

Here we see the Kwasny family enjoying a lovely Christmas together. Aww, so precious.

Cleveland, Oh

Canon A2e, 24-105, Ilford Hp5 @ 1600 (ddx)