Here’s another unposed Saturday morning photo of Marina feeding Nyusha from a couple of days ago.

The latest photo from my long-running collaboration with Sarah. I have a whole series of images in my head (they’ve been in my head for a long time now) that this is a part of. Now all I need to do is get out there and shoot them.

I haven’t posted here anything for a while. I guess mostly because I was too lazy or might be because I’ve been mostly using my iphone to take photos. I’ll try to change that if our daughter Nyusha allows me.
I took this photo while Alex was shooting Morgan

Sasha is holding his son Finn on their first day back from the hospital.

I’m going to keep going for a little while with pictures from the first couple of days of Nyusha’s life. I shot a total of 3 rolls of film while we were at the hospital and got a surprising number of photos I’m happy wihth. I’m (obviously) not going to post all of ‘em here lest they take over this website, but here’s another one and there will likely be a few more following it.

On this one, she’s already something like a day old, relaxing after a morning meal.

Laecee is feeding Finn on their first day out of the hospital.

Another shot from the series. This is the photo as I originally envisioned it a while ago.

I got this pic on my second attempt. I had tried to shoot it (and other like it, I’ll be posting at least one more) a couple of weeks ago, failed miserably, and reshot this Saturday.

7 weeks to go.

This is also my first attempt to use D-DX to develop Delta 3200. I like what I got better than my experiments with Rodinal at high dilutions and long times. I’ve had a love-hate relationship with that film for a long time now, but I think I’m actually beginning to get a feel for it now.

This is probably the single most important photograph I’ve posted here so far.

My grandmother, Luba Goldin, is video-chatting with her grand-daughter (my niece) from her hospital-bed in Israel on the last good day of her life. The next morning she has taken a turn for the worse, and one day later she died.

She was one of my favorite people and I miss her incredibly.

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I took this shot on a lazy Saturday morning as a continuation in this series (1,2,3). I was still mostly asleep when I saw the cats start posing. In a daze, I loaded a roll of a very expired Delta 3200 into my camera, shot it, developed it, and scanned it, all within a half an hour or so. The film turned out to be very expired – and I’m kicking myself for it now as this photograph, along with others on the roll, has very special significance to me – it’s the first “pregnancy” shot of Marina that I did.

20 weeks and counting.