It was a dismal rainy evening two days before Christmas 1988. I had two Leicas. With one I was running some tests on color filtration with a new flavor of Kodak Ektachrome (remember that?) for a class I was taking in color photography.
In the other Leica, my dad’s M3, I had a sole roll of Kodak Plus-X (ISO 125, that I rated at ISO 80).
My pal TSH and I were exploring New York City area transit on one of the busiest travel days of the season, and I was making photos trying to capture the spirit of motion.
Among the images I made, was this photograph of a PATH train crossing the massive lift bridge east of Newark Penn Station.
The other day I scanned this negative and processed the image electronically in Lightroom, where I minimized the dust that had accumulated over the last three decades.
Tracking the Light Posts Every Day!
The trip where we parked the car was in the summer of 1986. And the neighborhood was a bit on the dodgy side, but I think we had my old Plymouth Scamp, which fit right in! 😉
On a recent trip to NYC Beth, Anna, and I rode Path from Jersey City to Manhattan. I also remember a trip-this one or some similar trip-during which we parked my car on the city streets near the Newark Penn Station in a very questionable neighborhood. I wonder if it is better or worse in 2015? TSH