Day 49: Church and Market
Day 49: February 18, 2014: Church and Market
This project has me spending a lot of time in the vicinity of Church and Market this year. Why? Well, that just happens to be where you can find Photoworks, the shop that I’ve been trusting all of my film with these days. I tend to be dropping off or picking up at least once a week after work, and the light in February at those times was always just right to take a few photos for the day before heading to the shop. We’re lucky in this city to have several film shops still in operation, so I ended up at Photoworks the first time around mostly because they’re close to my house. I haven’t checked out many of the others, but they’ve always done me right there, so I keep turning up, week after week. If you’re looking to play with film, SF is the right place to do it, and you probably can’t go wrong with any of the shops in town, but I’d recommend giving Photoworks a try. Also a great place to get prints made, locally with care. I’m a big fan of supporting the local shops, and you should be as well. 🙂
The top photo was taken on a wander through Church Street Station and is from one of my ebay-acquired Canon waterproof point and shoot cams that used to live in the Himalayas in a past life. Interestingly, I watched the early 80’s Eddie Murphy movie 48 hrs not too long ago, and discovered that a portion of it was filmed in this Muni Station. Apart from the trains and the ads, it looks exactly the same today.
(Top: Arista EDU black and white 400 film in the snow leopard Sureshot A1 SLC P22, bottom: Kodak Portra 400 in the EOS 3 SLR)
