I love this W + K advertisement for Royal Enfield. So good.

Expired Portra, weird hues, big vistas, close friends and the great outdoors…

As some of you following here may know my close friend Dave and I have been collaborating on a photography/illustration mash up project called V-Town.

The folks over at Carne Mag were good enough to feature us in the latest issue. You can download it for free over on their site.

Here’s a sneak peek:

Hitched a ride to the trailhead just outside of Woodstock New York. Climbed up 1400 ft. in two and a half miles.

Saw an abandoned hotel blanketed in dead leaves and a really tall fire tower that we got on top of. Saw the whole Hudson valley with long shadows and flame colored foliage.

Pointed plastic at the sun and came back with these.

Black and white isn’t for me. That’s not to say I don’t like it as a medium, it’s just not my thing. I do however see so many people pulling it off in a fantastic way so I thought I would try it myself.

Here are some pieces of my first of roll of the most venerable Tri-X:

Not having an iPhone or a 6×6 camera I’ve been a little jealous of all the square photographs I’ve seen rolling around the facebooker and the blogosphere and the general interweb at large.

So much hipsta and insta and just plain old school cool with that weird film stuff. What’s that all about?

Well I put out a query to my old man, a master picker of all things vintage (although cameras, records and instruments are his speciality) and within a week or so he had an answer for me in the form of a near mint condition Yashica-D.

When it got here I popped in a roll of Portra 400VC that expired back in 2006 and walked around the industrial part of Greenpoint and the Brooklyn waterfront not knowing if anything would come out.

Well, I’m happy to say it worked out for me and now I have my own (slightly color shifted) squares.

Here’s a sample:

Thanks dad!