At last, something other than concert photography!

I got a cheap 58mm Helios 44-2 from Moscow yesterday, and took some pictures to get a feel for its qualities. Unfortunately the focus ring is stuck, but apparently that’s a common problem and not too difficult to mend. I’ll have to get handy over Christmas. Until then, the look of the out-of-focus areas was the reason I wanted it anyway.

The Helios 44 is a Soviet copy of the Carl Zeiss Biotar, the blueprints of which they took from a plant in eastern Germany after WW2.

A little taste of what went down at Blå last night.

That time I was all by myself on the New York subway.

Trying out and thinking about some new things. If all goes to plan I’ll have some more polished work to show in not too long. For now, I like these.