I’m spending a lot of time in Monterey and Pacific Grove. There are lots of good subjects there, and I’ve been capturing them on film, in black and white, and making prints in the darkroom. What I haven’t been doing is scanning the negatives, so I finally got around to that today and scanned several rolls. I don’t print from the scans, but I do need them in order to post photos here.
Pacific Grove (PG) is a small community, and it had a small-town Fourth of July celebration. Here’s George Washington with the Bill of Rights, which he read aloud to the crowd.
This is the Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo in Monterey, also known as the Presidio Chapel. It’s the oldest stone building in California.
I post this photo of a statue on the wall in the cathedral because it wasn’t easy to get a good film photo in such low light.
Pacific Grove City Hall in early morning light (6:50 a.m. as you can see on the clock). The light on the building was the point of this shot, because “film likes light.”
An informal memorial on the beach near the spot where John Denver died when the plane he was piloting fell into the ocean. There’s a more formal memorial plaque nearby.
The rock formations and cloud formations at Lovers Point make for a hard-too-pass-up subject when you’re shooting a film camera with an orange or red filter to accentuate the contrast in the sky.
Early on a recent misty morning, I was struck by the pattern of drops the mist had created on the hood of my car. Not your typical subject, but I felt it would make an unusual photo. Because these are mist drops, not raindrops, they stay perfectly formed and separate from each other because they accumulate gradually, and aren’t big like raindrops, which flow into each other. I know that according to photo dogma, I should have an element to “break up” the pattern. But hey, this is what I came across, and I liked it the way I found it.
I’ll post more photos from the Monterey Peninsula in the future; I’ll keep exploring the area and finding new subjects, I’m sure.
