Type 55 Polaroid - Utah Lake

One of my favorite films: Type 55 Polaroid, has been discontinued. I was lucky enough to be able to get my hands on one more box of it. $90 for 20 sheets. Kind of expensive. Today I made one exposure of Utah Lake. I used a 10 stop Neutral Density filter to get my shutter speed up to about 1/2 hour. The image isn't amazing, but worth posting on the blog.


Utah Lake - Type 55 Polaroid - Shen Hao 4x5 camera, 90mm lens, 30mins @ F45

Yashica C - Twin Lens Reflex

A few years ago I bought an old Yashica C TLR camera. I only ran one roll of film through it and never printed any of them because of poor quality. Just today I was flipping through some old negatives and found them. I thought I'd scan them in just because. The quality is pretty low, but they have a unique look, which I really like. They are both of Utah Lake.

More Equador Portraits

Here are just a few more portraits from Ecuador I shot while volunteering with a non-profit foundation called FEVI.



Man weaving at center of the world - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm 80mm lens



Elderly Man - Quito Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm 80mm lens


Woman at the Elderly Center - Esmeraldas Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm 80mm lens


Woman at the Elderly Center - Esmeraldas Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm 80mm lens

Woman at the Elderly Center - Esmeraldas Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm 80mm lens




Woman Spinning - Center of the World - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm 80mm lens


Mops at the Basilica - Quito Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm 80mm lens

Portraits of Ecuador - Children

Rich or poor, it seems the children of the world for the most part are happy. I very much enjoyed photographing the kids playing soccer and trying my best to speak to them in my broken spanish. The foundation FEVI spends much of their attention helping the children of Ecuador, after all they are the future.


Young Boy No. - Portraits of Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm, 150mm Carl Zeiss lens, Tmax 400.


Young Girl No. - Portraits of Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm, 150mm Carl Zeiss lens, Tmax 400.


Young Boy No. 2 - Portraits of Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm, 150mm Carl Zeiss lens, Tmax 400.


Young Girl No. 2 - Portraits of Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm, 150mm Carl Zeiss lens, Tmax 400.


Young Boy No. 3 - Portraits of Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm, 150mm Carl Zeiss lens, Tmax 400.


Young Girl No. 3 - Portraits of Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm, 150mm Carl Zeiss lens, Tmax 400.


Two Boys - Portraits of Ecuador - Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm, 150mm Carl Zeiss lens, Tmax 400.

Quito Ecuador - Basilica

Images of Quito Ecuador and the Basilica. The largest church in South America.

Sua Ecuador

A few more photos of Sua Ecuador.




It had just started to rain as I approched the owner of this small fishing boat, he was fixing his nets and asked if I could photograph him. He said he'd rather not, but that I could photograph his son. Shot with Hasselblad 500cm 80mm 1:2.8 lens, Kodak Tmax 400.


Young boy and his fish. Shot with Hasselblad 500cm 80mm 1:2.8 lens, Kodak Tmax 400.



These fishermen were dragging a Thrasher shark caught earlier that morning.

More Portraits from Ecuador

I have well over a hundred medium format negatives that I need to scan in and with my very busy schedule I can only do a few at a time.

Here are a couple more portraits I took while visiting Ecuador with the non-profit organization FEVI .


This man was selling his beautiful paintings at a market in Quito Ecuador. He was a little confused that I wanted to take his photo. I found him to be full of character.