Personal Photos - Travel In Southern Utah / Nevada

A couple of weeks ago I met up with my two best friends in Las Vegas and the three of us took of through the desert in search of photos and fun for a week. We had a blast and got tons of good photos too. For space reasons I had to choose between digital and film. Since film has always been my preferred way of shooting, I took two cameras with me: the Contax 645 and the Mamiya RZ ProII. I started years ago with the Mamiya 645 (bought that baby when I was 17) and have progressively grown to nicer cameras. These two are my favorite. The Contax has a ridiculous lens that unfortunately can’t be duplicated on any other setup. Unfortunately, because Contax went out of business long ago. So, it’s only a matter of time before these cameras give up the ghost and we have to find a way of strapping that lens on another body. It really is the nicest lens that I’ve ever worked with. The RZ, on the other hand, is just an amazing camera in general. It’s 6×7 and takes almost as nice of photos as large format.

I realize that film is becoming antiquated, but the feeling that you get in the photos when you shoot film still can’t be duplicated in digital. They have gotten way better than even 5 years ago, but when it comes to personal work, I still prefer film 🙂

you might be able to tell that i don’t like being on the other side of the camera very much 🙂 also, joe insisted that i take off my hat since every photo that he had of me was with a hat on. unfortunately, this is the only photo that i have of me and it’s with a look that i call “homeless” 🙂