South Lake Tahoe

Print Release, May of 2017 - No. 0433_06A

I've been sitting on this image for a while now... not sure how it fits in to anything else or why I keep coming back to it, but I do, and so I printed it, and here it is, for what it's worth. Some images are like that...

No. #0433_06A - South Lake Tahoe, California. February of 2016. Leica M3, Zeiss 50mm f/1.5 lens, Ilford HP5 400 film.

I'm experimenting with some new paper, digital proofs are printed on Arista Fine-Art Matte this month. It's a thinner paper stock, but it prints a much more neutral, continuous tone image. All 5x7 proofs are printed on Ilford Cold Tone  Fiber, as usual. Prints should hopefully ship out by the end of the week.

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South Lake Tahoe...

Finally getting through some scans from way back in February. We took a quick run up to South Lake Tahoe for a long weekend. Ended up at this weird hotel bar in Reno, everyone in the place looked like they were on at least their 3rd marriage.

#0433_06A - Lake Tahoe, CA. February 2016. Leica M3, Zeiss 50mm f/1.5, Ilford HP5 400.

#0432_15A - Fallen Leaf Lake, CA. February 2016. Leica M2, Zeiss 35mm f/2, Ilford HP5 400.

#0433_18A - Fallen Leaf Lake, CA. February 2016. Leica M3, Zeiss 50mm f/1.5, Ilford HP5 400.

#0433_01A - Psychic, somewhere near Davis, CA. February 2016. Leica M3, Zeiss 50mm f/1.5, Ilford HP5 400.

The whole South Lake / Reno scene always struck me as a kind of a violent fusion of people who are way too into skiing, compulsive gamblers, white trash and a truly unique landscape. Not exactly my bag... I don't ski and never make a bet unless I know I can't lose. I've been called white trash, but it's been awhile. Anyway it's still pretty...

On the way up we stopped at this burrito shop in a strip mall off the freeway with a psychic nextdoor... how is this still a thing? And how is this a thing in a strip mall off the freeway outside Davis?

#0433_21A - The Wife. Reno, NV. February 2016. Leica M3, Zeiss 50mm f/1.5, Ilford HP5 400.