This week’s Film Friday is a collection of shots taken with my Holga and Rolleiflex on last year’s trip to New York.  I’m fairly lucky in that I have a brother and sister and their respective families settled on the east coast of America, and I love to travel there as often as I can to see them.  Last November I took the opportunity to stay a few days with my brother in New Jersey, my sister in Brooklyn, and then headed out for a weekend of walks and watching films at her weekend home on Long Island.

This look of medium format photography is very popular at the moment with certain iPhone apps.  I admit I have and love these applications, but there’s nothing quite like the unpredictable nature of the real thing.  When you take the shot, you have no way of knowing whether it will come out as you think, especially with the plastic Holga.  A refreshing change from today’s digital world.

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1. my sister Sarah’s and her husband Chris’s leaf-strewn patio

2. still life of Sarah’s minimalistic decor

3. beautiful naked trees

4. Sarah and Chris outside their weekend pad in Bellport, Long Island

5. double exposure of my brother John and his beautiful, original fifties wooden kitchen in New Jersey. (It’s since been replaced with something bright and even more retro.) You can see why people had thought they had captured something spooky in the early days of photography. Really all they had done was forgotten to wind on to the next shot, just like I did here.

6. Greg takes a breather from all the vintage shopping in the East Village, NYC.