I started off as a fine arts photographer, and one of the projects that I concentrated on was urban landscapes at night, shot with a 4×5 camera on film. It was grueling work, but very rewarding. As I got busy with weddings and portraits I stopped working on that project for a long time, but last Saturday I decided to push myself again. The night was beautifully foggy and I couldn’t resist. I left my apartment at 10pm with my 4×5 and came home at 6am. In those 8 hours I produced 8 images, and these are the results. Most were shot in Everett and a few in Somerville.

Disclaimer: these were scanned at home on a crappy scanner and not worked on much. As such they are not complete. I will be printing these myself in a darkroom, at which point the final version of the images will reveal themselves to me.

Song Ie is a great cellist, and she wanted some promotional images for when she applies to various orchestras around the world. We started in Boston at Beacon Hill, then proceeded to Medford and finally we did some studio shots in Somerville.

I asked her to play as I took some shots.

For the longest time Suzi and I have been dying to see some roller derby, and yesterday we finally got our chance! There were almost 1600 people at the Shriners Auditorium in Wilmington to see the Boston Massacre battle against Maine’s Port Authority. We won, 128-24. It was a blast. Here’s some images!

The announcers.

Maine is introduced.

The Boston Massacre.

Slim Jim and the Mad Cows performed at halftime.

Boston’s mascot gets the crowd fired up!