Good Vibrations

During this summer, I spent a few Sundays at Drummer's Circle to photograph life there. I was there back in May (see Mother's Day at Drummers Circle) and posted photos here taken with my Nikon FE film camera. For these other times, however, I came back with my digital D7000.

Mother's Day at Drummers Circle

There is a park in DC where people get together every Sunday during the warm seasons to play drums and dance. I went to this park on Sunday which was Mother's Day in the United States. This photo was shot with my dad's 30 year old Nikon FE that he gave me a few years ago. I rarely shot with film, but I had a role of Kodak Tri-X 400 speed black and white film that I needed to use up. Shooting with the FE can be challenging but fun. It doesn't have those automatic features on modern cameras. You have to manualy advance the film with every shot and of course you have to manual focus. However, the camera does have a larger and brighter viewfinder compared to my modern D7000. As a result. you feel closer to the subject when you shoot with the camera.

I used a 50mm lens to capture this photo. This leads me to mention another aspect that I like about shooting with my FE. A 50mm lens is a 50mm lens and not 75mm lens as it is on my D7000 due to the smaller size of this camera's sensor.

Be'la Dona

Be'la Dona, a set on Flickr.

A few weeks ago, I attended one of the daily Millenium Stage concerts at the Kennedy Center. A DC born band, Be'la Dona perfomed that evening. It was a very energetic and upbeat atmosphere, on stage and in the crowd.

East and West - une métissage

This post is for my friend ACC (hint Anderson Computing Complex). The photos are from Friday's "East & West" performance at the Kennedy Center. The vocal performer was Lola Jung Danza, une métisse, half Korean half American.