Dublin on Tri-X

Happy Lantern Festival to you all. Today is the 15th day of the Lunar New Year, which means the first full moon of the new year, too. By and large, today is considered the end of the new year celebration. We celebrate the day by eating the glutinous sticky rice balls, or 湯圓 in Chinese.

Use darker-coloured bowls to contrast the white rice balls. It’s not a superstition, but a small aesthetic thing in the Chinese food culture.

Back to photo stuff. Today, I got the scans of a roll of Kodak Tri-X back from the lab. It’s been a while since I shot Tri-X- a stock I really like- because it’s getting very expensive. Compounded by higher costs of developing and scanning in Dublin, it doesn’t make much sense to shoot Tri-X. Thank you Kodak and Dublin!

Again, I have nothing much to say about Tri-X. It’s probably the most widely used black and white stock ever. Everything about it that can be said has been. I shot the roll over late December and early January. Dublin was mostly cold and gloomy with occasional sunshine. Thanks to the latitude of the film, I was able to shoot in starkly different conditions and get acceptable results, most of the time. Here are a few from this roll.

A busker on Grafton Street, shot through the window of a bookstore.

Fly away.

The winter solstice sun over Grafton.

Another Grafton busking scene, this one’s busier.

A shaky one.

If you look really hard, you can see a delivery man flying past on his electric bike.

Afternoon tea time for gulls.

Through a shop window.

A coffee shop selfie.

Is it a selfie if it’s not shot with the front camera of your phone? I don’t really know.

There it is. Kodak Tri-X. Farewell, till we meet again!