The City in Monochrome



The Lecture Before the Bus, originally uploaded by jjvornov.

I’m back from a relatively short trip to London. I was faced, as always, with the decision of what gear to bring. I’ve been using the Sigma DP1 on recent trips of course, but I had a series in London using the Leica M6ttl and black and white film.

In the end, I took both. The weather was not conducive to shooting. Drizzle intermittently changing to rain. Fogged and wet lenses. I was able to capture just a dozen images one afternoon. I chose the DP1 because I knew I’d have so little time that I didn’t want to carry the Leica around. I’ll convert these to monochrome as part of the series.

It will be a few days before I have the Ilford XP2 rolls developed, scanned and post-processed.

Author: James Vornov

I'm an MD, PhD Neurologist who left a successful academic career on the Faculty of The Johns Hopkins Medical School to develop new treatments in Biotech and Pharma. I became fascinated with how people actually make decisions based on the science of decision theory and emerging understanding of how the brain works to make decisions. My passion now is this deep explanation of what has been the realm of philosophy, psychology and self help but is now understood as brain function. By understanding our brains, I believe we can become happier, more successful people.

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