I****gram Archive — Ralph Brandi (@thereisnocat)

Backshore Brewing Co. This tiny brewery on the boardwalk in Ocean City goes to great lengths to let you know they’re there. More @new55film. Roid Week Day 2/2. #new55 #new55film #roidweek #roidweek2019 #film #filmphotography #polaroidweek #polaroidweek2019
Mon Apr 22 2019
Start Chugging. Another shot on @new55film generation 2. #filmphotography #film #new55 #new55film #roidweek #roidweek2019 #polaroidweek #polaroidweek2019
Mon Apr 22 2019
Sunrise at the Shore. Another @new55film shot from Ocean City, Maryland, from last month. Roid Week Day 1/2. #roidweek #roidweek2019 #new55 #film #filmphotography #speedgraphic #polaroidweek #polaroidweek2019
Sun Apr 21 2019
Pepsi - @New55 film Generation 2 print and negative. Shot last month in Ocean City, Maryland, with my Speed Graphic. Roid Week day 1/1. #roidweek #roidweek2019 #new55 #new55film #film #filmphotography #polaroidweek #polaroidweek2019
Sun Apr 21 2019
Rainy day aftermath (not Roid Week yet....) #polaroid #polaroidoriginals #slr680 #roidweekisalmosthere #roidweek #film #filmphotography
Sat Apr 20 2019
Shot this one a while ago. Scanned today as part of preparation for Polaroid Week, starting this Sunday. #polaroid #polaroidoriginals #slr680 #film #filmphotography #roidweek
Thu Apr 18 2019
PIZZA
Mon Apr 01 2019
Nude #aprilfailsday #polaroid #thirdmanedition #film #beach
Mon Apr 01 2019
They must have broken pipes for it to be raining beer @yaleterracebrewery , because I went by at 6:15, almost two hours before they were supposed to close, and the lights were out and the doors were locked.
Sun Mar 31 2019
Still life in light and fries
Sat Mar 30 2019
Channeling my inner @stephaniehobson
Fri Mar 29 2019
Bar top.
Thu Mar 28 2019
Today’s score, courtesy of World of Photography in Columbus, O (props to @billw for bringing this place to my attention with his posts about building an impromptu darkroom when he was in town last year)
Tue Mar 26 2019
Sunrise
Sat Mar 23 2019
Moon
Sat Mar 23 2019
My kind of shopping
Fri Mar 22 2019
Room with a view
Thu Mar 21 2019
Pedro, the mascot of everyone’s favorite racist tourist trap. Shot outside on our deck with a 10 inch Petzval lens mounted on my Century Studio No. 5 5x7 wooden camera from around 1902. Shot on. J. Lane dry plate from @pictoriographica and developed by inspection in HC-110, dilution B.
#dryplate #dryplatenegative #dryplatephotography #forwardintothepast #film #filmphotography #filmphotographic #filmisntdead #filmisnotdead #southoftheborder
Sun Mar 17 2019
Topo Gigio
A couple of months ago, I bought a vintage Petzval lens with the thought that I would mount it on the 1902 Century Studio No. 5 5x7 camera I bought in November. It took a couple of months, but I finally got it mounted. This was one of my first test shots. It’s on Ilford Direct Positive paper, and shot in a #foldio 3 portable studio. The focus is a bit off on this one. The first shot had better focus, but was underexposed at 2 seconds. This one was 4 seconds. The black background doesn’t really show off the Petzval lens. I’ll have to try something outside next.
#largeformat #5x7 #ilforddirectpositivepaper #film #filmphotography #petzval
Tue Mar 05 2019
HoJo, Asbury Park
The former Howard Johnson’s restaurant on the boardwalk is a distinctive building, and one of my favorite subjects on the shore. It now serves as a couple of other restaurants. First taken, last posted of the @new55film shots I took on Saturday. The new shipments are a distinct improvement on previous iterations.
#new55 #new55film #largeformat #speedgraphic #4x5group #film #filmphotography #staybrokeshootfilm
Tue Feb 26 2019
Wonder Bar, Asbury Park
More @new55film, this time negative first, then print. On the one hand, the print doesn’t handle large areas of light colors particularly well. Skies in particular wind up with lots of “stuff” on the print that isn’t on the negative. On the other hand, that’s kind of part of the magic. Part of me wants that fixed, and part hopes it never is.
The sleeve stop on this shot failed. It came out too far, then wouldn’t go back in all the way after the shot. Famous Format says they have a fix for that, but it will have to wait until they order a new batch of sleeves, probably in a few months. This is an issue I *definitely* would like to see solved. That failure ended my photography for the day (which was okay because I had taken three shots and that was about what I wanted to do), because I needed to leave the holder on the camera until I could get home and in to a dark room to salvage the shot.
#new55film #new55 #speedgraphic #largeformat #film #filmphotography #staybrokeshootfilm #jerseyshore #boardwalk
Mon Feb 25 2019
Convention Hall, Asbury Park
I received some of the latest production of @new55film P/N film last Sunday just before I had to leave for the airport for a work trip. All week I was think about shooting. Yesterday, I took the Speed Graphic to the boardwalk.
The latest #new55film has new production developer pods. Based on what I’m seeing, they seem to largely solve the problem some sheets had where pods wouldn’t break, or would spread unevenly. I’m very happy with the results. The first shot here is the print; the second is the negative.
#speedgraphic #largeformat #new55 #film #filmphotography #staybrokeshootfilm
Sun Feb 24 2019
Dusky Sandusky, Ohio.
Fri Feb 22 2019
Don’t freak out! Sediment and what you can do about it.
Fri Feb 15 2019
Helen
Loui
Eleanora
Harriet
Taken in Gr. Colton’s home
4 generations
This is the last photo I’m going to post from the Garner Family Archive, a collection of 19 dry plate negatives and prints taken by Eleanora Garner Colton, the daughter of Colonel Wesley W. Garner and Harriet Murray Garner. The photos in the collection appear to have been taken between 1895 and 1900. There were three 5x7 negatives, and several more 4.25x4.25 negatives, a size I’d never seen. The photos provide a window into the lives of people in a small town (population about 600) as the 19th century was coming to a close.
The picture is incomplete. They focus mostly on the women in the family. The few shots of men are largely solo shots; there is only one shot of a man and woman together in the 17 I’ve posted.
The two photos I’m not posting are interesting. One looks like it’s deteriorated, and it’s hard to tell that it’s a photo of a gentleman sitting in a chair on the porch. The other is a troubling reflection of racial attitudes at the time as a number of family members appear in costume for a minstrel show. I struggled with whether to post that one, but decided not to because the image is pretty offensive. But I felt like if I didn’t at least mention it, that would be almost as offensive by leaving out an aspect of their lives, whitewashing them, if you will.
You can see all of the photos I’ve posted in this series at #garnerfamilyarchive .
#dryplate #dryplatephotography #dryplateprint #film #filmphotography #filmphotographic
Tue Feb 12 2019
Great Grand. Mrs. W. W. Garner. Harriet Murray Garner.
Similar to the photo I posted a couple of days ago, but a slightly different angle and more light. Printed on th self-toning paper
#dryplate #dryplatephotography #dryplatephoto #film #filmphotography #garnerfamilyarchive
Mon Feb 11 2019
This is an interesting shot. There’s a 4.25 x 4.25 print of this one, but the negative is 5 x 7. With the masking, it’s like she shot this specifically to print on that paper. Like the first photo in this series, this shows four generations of the Garner family women: Harriet Murray Garner, the matriarch; Eleanora Garner Colton, Harriet’s daughter and the photographer of all these shots; Eleanora’s daughter Loui Colton Johnston, and Loui’s daughter Helen Johnston.
#dryplate #dryplatephotography #dryplatenegative #film #filmphotography #foundphoto #foundphotos #garnerfamilyarchive
Sun Feb 10 2019
Harriet Murray Garner In brick home in Columbus City Iowa. Grt Grandmother - Harriet Garner
Another 4.25 x 4.25 print made by Eleanora Garner Colton on the auto-toning paper. This was shot in Harriet’s house.
#dryplate #dryplatephotography #dryplateprint #film #filmphotography #foundphoto #foundphotos #garnerfamilyarchive
Sat Feb 09 2019
Another family shot taken in the yard, this time as a 5x7 dry plate negative. I find it interesting that all these shots are of the women in the family. There are no group shots that show the men and women together. The only shots of men are solo shots (there’s one exception to that that I haven’t posted, and I probably won’t post because it’s racist in a way that would be familiar to the residents of today’s Virginia), or the one shot showing a husband and wife with their dog. I’m curious why there’s that omission in the photos from rural Iowa ca. 1899-1900.
#dryplate #dryplatephotography #dryplatenegative #film #filmphotography #filmphotographic #garnerfamilyarchive
Fri Feb 08 2019
By Mrs. Colton.
Another of Eleanora Garner Colton’s 4x4 prints on self-toning paper. No more details on this one.
#dryplate #dryplatephotography #dryplateprint #film #filmphotography #garnerfamilyarchive
Thu Feb 07 2019
Grandmother Garner (on right) and Mrs. Franklin.
Sitting on the porch at the Garner House. Another print on the self-toning paper.
#selftoningpaper #dryplatephotography #dryplate #dryplateprint #film #filmphotography #filmphotographic #rockingchairs #garnerfamilyarchive
Wed Feb 06 2019
On Long Creek
Another of Eleanora Garner Colton’s masked prints from the late 1800s, maybe as late as 1900. Long Creek is a couple of miles south of Columbus City. It’s a tributary of the Iowa River.
#dryplate #dryplatephotography #dryplateprint #boating #recreation #film #filmphotography #garnerfamilyarchive
Tue Feb 05 2019
Mill Brook
#film #filmphotography #filmphotographic #polaroid #polaroidoriginals #slr680
Mon Feb 04 2019
Sample of picture taken by Grandmother Eleanora G. Colton & developed by her — about 1895? Pauline
That’s what it says on the back of the print, anyway. I like how she’s having some fun with some of the prints, using masks to play with shapes. This appears to have been printed on the paper that came in the box these photos came to me in. The box originally contained AMERICAN SELF TONING PAPER. Manufactured only by American Self Toning Paper Manufacturing Co., Newark; New Jersey.
#dryplate #dryplatephotography #dryplateprint #film #filmphotography #selftoningpaper #garnerfamilyarchive
Mon Feb 04 2019
PARK HERE RENT BIKES BEACH #film #filmphotography #filmphotographic #largeformat #speedgraphic #graflexspeedgraphic #wildwood #beach #parking #4x5group
Sun Feb 03 2019
There are a couple of photos in the collection that don’t include any people. Like this. I don’t think this is the main house. Between the pictures of parts of the house and photos I’ve seen online as part of a campaign to save the Garner House, which is apparently in a state of disrepair today, I think this may be an outbuilding on the property.
#dryplate #dryplatephotography #dryplatenegative #film #filmphotography #largeformat #garnerfamilyarchive #foundphoto #foundphotos
Sun Feb 03 2019
Same porch as the last shot. The dog is also here, but not begging. Harriet Murray Garner is of course at the center. And you can see the shadow of the photographer and camera.
#dryplate #dryplatephotography #dryplatenegative #foundphoto #foundphotos #film #filmphotography #filmphotographic #garnerfamilyarchive
Sat Feb 02 2019
Beg!
I love this shot. Some things never change. I don’t know who these two people are, but they’re part of the extended Garner family. The lady here appears in the photo I posted a few days ago of all the women in a tree, as well as in another group photo I’ll be posting later.
This is another of the 4.25 x 4.25 negatives. If you haven’t been following along, I bought a set of prints and glass dry plate negatives shot in Iowa around 1899 and/or 1900. I’ve been posting them for the past week. You can see them all under the hashtag #garnerfamilyarchive .
#dryplate #dryplatephotography #dryplatephoto #dryplatenegative #film #filmphotography #filmphotographic #garnerfamilyarchive
Fri Feb 01 2019
Marina #film #filmphotography #filmphotographic #filmphoto #rolleiflex #cinestill800 #cinestill800t #cinestill800t120
Thu Jan 31 2019
I think this is a self-portrait of Eleanora. It seems to have been taken at the same time as the first photo in this series that I posted, the 4 generations shot. This is another 4.25 x 4.25 negative. That other photo was shot on 5x7. Maybe she had two different cameras?
#dryplate #dryplatephotography #dryplatenegative #film #filmphotography #filmphotographic #foundphoto #foundphotos #garnerfamilyarchive
Thu Jan 31 2019

Pedro, the mascot of everyone’s favorite racist tourist trap. Shot outside on our deck with a 10 inch Petzval lens mounted on my Century Studio No. 5 5x7 wooden camera from around 1902. Shot on. J. Lane dry plate from @pictoriographica and developed by inspection in HC-110, dilution B.

Topo Gigio

HoJo, Asbury Park

Wonder Bar, Asbury Park

Convention Hall, Asbury Park

Helen

Great Grand. Mrs. W. W. Garner. Harriet Murray Garner.

Harriet Murray Garner In brick home in Columbus City Iowa. Grt Grandmother - Harriet Garner

By Mrs. Colton.

Grandmother Garner (on right) and Mrs. Franklin.

On Long Creek

Mill Brook

Sample of picture taken by Grandmother Eleanora G. Colton & developed by her — about 1895? Pauline

Same porch as the last shot. The dog is also here, but not begging. Harriet Murray Garner is of course at the center. And you can see the shadow of the photographer and camera.

Beg!

I think this is a self-portrait of Eleanora. It seems to have been taken at the same time as the first photo in this series that I posted, the 4 generations shot. This is another 4.25 x 4.25 negative. That other photo was shot on 5x7. Maybe she had two different cameras?