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Portrait of Louis Mendes

One of the high points of today's visit to the 2012 PhotoPlus Expo at the Jacob Javits Convention center was running into Louis Mendes. Louis is a fixture in the NYC photo community. A working street photographer who creates one-of-a-kind originals with classic Graphic cameras, flashbulbs and Polaroid (now Fuji) film. No need for me to go on any further when so many others have done the work for me...  New York Times .... Facebook ... Wikipedia

Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 using on-camera flash and the Pinhole Art filter. Camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project. PEN#896 #PENREADY

The Last Lab on the Planet to Process Kodachrome

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Process That Film - NOW!

Hats on the Boardwalk/Venice Beach, CA

After Roberta (my wife) came back from Las Vegas last week I had the film processed from my Olympus Infinity Stylus (I love that little camera). Since the "digital revolution" that poor camera has been sitting in my camera bag - that was until Roberta needed a camera to take to Vegas. 

After processing I found that the film showed signs of heat and age damage.

I also have a Canon A2E SLR film camera that also sits in a bag - its been in the bag for nearly two years with the same roll of film in it, so having learned my lesson from the little Olympus I had that film developed - LO AND BEHOLD there were a few gems on it from a trip to California...I just don't remember when!

The moral of the story is; If you have any film laying around – get it to the lab ASAP!

Sign and Surfer/Venice Beach, CA

Sign and Window/Venice Beach, CA

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