This post was supposed to be up days ago but my site got hacked and was screwed up until today. Thank you so much to my amazing web guy Thadd Williams for getting my site running again. Now on to the post!

I go through phases when shooting film and when I got back 23 rolls from my photo lab the other day I decided I hate looking at the color snap shots I usually love so much. I’m not sure what it is but they just didn’t look like I want them to. Because of the view finder and the wide lens I found myself cropping in post way more than normal and it’s bugging me in a way that shooting snap shot 35mm has since I got my first Ricoh GR1 several years ago.

On the other side of that I also shot a bunch of 35mm black & white and I was really happy with that stuff. I had the b&w in my old Nikon SLR which I don’t really love. It was the first camera I bought with my own money after a summer job working in a photo lab. I still prefer the old Pentax that I learned to shoot on in high school but the light meeter is broken and the shutter fails sometimes so it’s more trouble than it’s worth.

When I got the film back the black and white really made me want to shoot more black and white. Not sure why that is since I normally think people shoot black and white because of some silly longing for the past or because they aren’t good enough to shoot color. Digital black and white still looks terrible and it drives me nuts when people convert their digital to hide the terrible lighting.

I shoot black and white because it makes me think about light in a different way and it makes me slow down a lot because I don’t use the auto focus on that camera. When I get the stuff back everyone is so drawn to it and I sometimes think if I just shot black and white film I would probably be way more successful as an “artist” because people are so easily amused by it.

This post is totally long and pointless so let’s just get into it. Here are the results of four or five rolls of film I shot while I was in LA. I like the photos and it makes me want to shoot more black and white. I think I might do a black and white zine soon. This gallery has a lot of stuff in it so here’s the quick run down of the highlights.

I shot the following porn babes: Ava Dalush, Jade Nile (and her boyfriend), Chanel Preston, Aria Alexander, January Seraph, and Carter Cruise. I also shot photos of Ivy Diamond, Malice McMunn, Alanna Pearl, my friends Kristen, Samm & Juanito Blanco. I also spent a day hanging out in Malibu with Eddy Segal, Nate Turbow, Dan Keyes and Dan’s real pretty girlfriend Lexi. I think that’s about it.

Lots of NSFW stuff but also a bunch of totally safe for work stuff too. You should look at it because people are easily impressed with black and white photos. Enjoy. Oh, and Girls Of Driven By Boredom in much higher resolution if you have that thing in your life.

Click here to see a gallery of 35mm black and white photos from my recent trip to LA.

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