#Texas Leica

[iso3200net]

Snow story {digging through the archive}

Digging through the archive, film I've developed, scanned and left waiting. It was one of the drives through the countryside my father and I take every December. Here, a spring water pool in a middle of a village. December 2011.

Taken with borrowed Fujica G690BL medium format 6×9 film camera, its EBC Fujinon S 100mm F3.5 lens, on Kodak T-Max 100 Professional film. Developed in Kodak Xtol, 1+1 dilution. Scanned with Canon CanoScan 8800F flatbed scanned, using VueScan.

[graph100]

my favorite name for something has to be the nickname for that one 6x9 fujica camera. i know the name is like fujica and then a bunch of numbers and letters but that doesnt matter. its called the texas leica because it looks like a leica camera but big. i love that name so much. texas leica

[jonthefro]

Burbank Sunrise

Worked in CA for like three days a couple weeks back. Morning light is always great, and you've gotta love palm tree textures.

GL690 + Cinestill 400D + 100mm

[xltl]

tall can for comparison

[americaisdead]

austin, texas. september 2023

© tag christof

[jscolman]

...Texas Bluebonnets.

The Lady Bird Johnson Gardens, Austin, Texas.

Spring, 2024.

[timothymichaelhanley]

Galveston Texas

Leica 111f Ilford film

[turquoisebindle]

McKinney, TX

[msogavt]

Moon setting over Pine Canyon

If I had a choice, I would have chosen a longer focal length than 35mm to make this image, but 35mm was all I had. To my eye, the moon looked a whole lot bigger, as it always seems to do compared to the images I capture. As it is, you have to kind of work to spot the faint moon. Still, the image has a certain John Ford vibe that I like.

[idriserba]

[patendude]

Photo walking downtown Austin. TMAX 400 loaded in the Olympus XA1 and Ektar 100 in the Leica R3.

[deborasmail]

Behind the scenes with

Cal-a-Vie Cookbook II.

Houston, Texas - in-studio.

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[spacecityexposures]

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[julietstjohn]

Rooster's photography extravaganza part 2/?

You can find part 1 here if you want

Jake has always been fond of sunrises.

Back at home, in Texas, he would get up at 5.30 AM every morning just to sit on his family's ranch house patio, a mug full of freshly brewed coffee in his hands, bathing in the golden light.

Maybe it was the light or the chill of the early morning, but he always felt at ease watching the sun slowly and shily peaking behind the horizon. Especially while on leave post the suicide mission. He craved that time alone, lost in his thoughts trying to sort them out.

Indeed, Jake lost no time flying back home during their four weeks of leave. He needed to breathe familiar air, pace. He needed to shout his mind off as he felt unease in his own skin. So he packed everything and left in the middle of the night.

The Daggers are still at his neck for this stunt he pulled.

But being back in Texas somehow helped with his PTSD. He started having trouble sleeping the very same night he saved Mav's and Rooster's life, on the carrier. Javi had to shake him awake and hold him through the shock twice that night. Every time he closes his eyes, Mav and Rooster would die, right in front of him.

But even being at home wasn't enough sometimes. Some nights he re-lived the mission, his mind coming up with the most disturbing scenarios, and in none of them, Bradley and Maverick made it out alive.

However, waking up and watching the sunrise, somehow soothed him, lifting the thick veil of the nightmares.

And right there, up in Mission Trails Regional Park, watching a still half-asleep San Diego stretching itself awake in the warm light of the morning, Jake was feeling like he could finally breathe again. He was starting to feel at home in San Diego too. He had a family there too now.

*click* Rooster.

"Portraying a National treasure Bradshaw?" chucked Hangman turning around, smirking at the fellow pilot.

"You mean the view right?" laughed Rooster lowering the Leica.

"I meant myself, but whatever sails your boat" answered Jake following Bradley along the tiny viewpoint they were on.

He soon started fidgeting with his water flask carabiner while peacing behind Rooster. Jake was feeling restless, something was buzzing underneath his skin, and he was unable to shake Bradley's words out of his head: I trust you.

"Here, take this and do something, you are driving me insane" said suddenly Bradley shaking the younger out of his trance and placing the Fujifilm in his hands.

Jake was at a loss for words. What was he supposed to do with this thing?

"Don't look at her like that, I set her in auto mode you should be fine" said Rooster, reaching for the camera switch, gently brushing Jake's hand in the process.

Damn.

He suddenly felt the pressure: what he was supposed to portray? What was the correct way to do it? He had never used a camera before, for god's sake.

"I promise, it is easier than it seems. Don't think, just do" smiled warmly Bradley, leaving then Jake, and returning to his photos.

So he started clicking away, following his wingman.

________

And here we are. End of part 2. Thank you for reading and following me along with this photography extravaganza.

[americaisdead]

wichita falls, texas. september 2023

© tag christof

[jscolman]

Bats from the Congress Street Bridge, Austin, Texas.

Spring, 2024.