Here, kitty kitty...

"Nice kitty," Tim Connor, All rights reserved.


"Pretty kitty," Tim Connor, All rights reserved

With Adam Pantozzi in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

The sailor and the sea

"Fisherman, New Bedford docks," Tim Connor, All rights reserved

Pretty woman

"Pretty woman," Tim Connor, All rights reserved

More pictures at my Flickr

Phone among phones

"Two street phones" by Tim Connor, All rights reserved

Taken with my new iphone 5S. I didn't buy this phone/camera to shoot Gary Winnogrand-style street snaps, but that's about all I've done so far. The FS camera is well-suited to nervy spontaneous shooting, though it's awkward as hell (I keep shooting pictures of my big pink figures). For one thing the Fs's fully automatic white balance and metering systems  handle mixed NYC color and light brilliantly so far. I'm pleased with the quality.

But, way more important, shooting with a phone seems to excuse my voyeuristic perfidy! I' m just a guy with a phone! No one is worried about a guy with a phone. Look,  everybody is walking around with them-- handling them, playing with them, peering at them, listening and talking to them, tapping and swiping at them. What could be more harmless?


"Two girls and a small boy, Washington Square" by Tim Connor, All rights reserved

Young Davey

"Young Davey," Tim Connor, All rights reserved
When Mom and Dad were alive, and the strong young men were still babies.

White horse

"White horse in field, California," by Tim Connor, All rights reserved

A long time ago

Big River, Mendocino, CA, Tim Connor, All rights reserved

 On and off in the pre-digital 70s I experimented with infrared film. This picture was processed in Photoshop from a scan of one of those old negs. I have never worked with infrared outside the darkroom so this is all improv. If any of you know of any online examples of infrared via Photoshop, I'd love to look at them. Please send me a note.

P.S. I've also dug up negs that I shot on Ilford XP1 400 ASA film and developed god knows how (I don't remember). The negs have a brownish-orange cast and display infrared contrast and reverse densities.

For this project (both kinds of film) I  have in mind to get color into the mix somehow. Don't have a clue how to go about that (still a fumbling beginner in PS). Any suggestions welcome.