Fairfax Night
November 23, 2009
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. – Edward Weston
Fairfax Night – Fairfax District, Los Angeles, CA, USA
copyright 2009 O. Bisogno Scotti All Rights Reserved.
This image was captured while walking the dog at 4:00 am after a gig. I set up the tripod on the sidewalk on Rosewood next to the playground at Fairfax High School with the camera pointing down Orange Grove Ave. You could always count on Kodachrome exposed for 5 minutes or more to deliver a surreal effect, not to mention extreme reciprocity failure.
Minolta SR-T 101 SLR, 50mm Minolta lens, Kodak Kodachrome 64 35mm transparency film, Velbon Tripod, Kodak Sprintscan 4000 scanner.
November 30, 2009 at 7:57 am
Nice. This captures a side of LA I haven’t seen much of. Thanks, Jerry
November 30, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Thanks, man! I think I took that in the late 70s. That’s the feeling I had for the Fairfax District and Los Angeles (in those days). I most likely could never replicate, or even summon up those feelings today.