Due to the nasty weather in New York yesterday, my sister and I spent 7 hours waiting for our plane to take off for LGA. Airports are boring. Good thing I had my camera.
Fort Lauderdale International + C41 b/w
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Looking at what you were able to do with mundane subject matter with C41 film in favorable light reminds me why I find digital B&W so unsatisfying. Not digi-bashing here; but this subject has been on my mind of late. I've never been able to achieve the range and smoothness of B&W tones with any digital apparatus that you've accomplished here. I've done it with film, however.
Nice job finding, and revealing, beauty in the quotidian. And glad the TSA didn't cavity-search you acting suspiciously with that camera.
Actually Mike, TSA did have to hand check my bag when it went through the machine. As he said it, "We're used to looking right thought cameras, but yours comes up as solid black". I think it must be the brass top section and lead glass in the lens. He was all, "Ooo, look at that" when he pulled the leica out of it's little case. The woman hand checking my film baggie looked over and said, "ooo, that IS nice"
It was fun.
And thanks for the compliment; I tried to find interesting stuff to shoot. Just imagine how much more tonality I could have had with the dynamic range and exposure latitude of real b/w film instead of the chromogenic stuff.. ;-)
Call me old-fashioned, but I still think it's great that a seminal rap group from the 80's/90's has been able to stay in the traveler's consciousness by running their own airline.
I really love the photo of the man with his head bent down, hand on his face. It's one of those lovely gestures that is unremarkable in the moment, but absolutely beautiful when given the time and attention you have afforded it here.