B&W

I upgraded from kodak gold to Ilford HP5 and took some random photos over the last week. The film is of a higher quality and it really shows: the darker tones are rich and inky and the grain is better, the midtones are a little iffy though. I developed this roll in HC-110 for 5 minutes agitating for 10s every minute:

Jardins Luxembourg: this is right next to where I used to go to school, the majority of the people here are students and tourists, but everyday you can find the same group of guys playing "boule":














St. Germain:





Eternal flame for the killed in action:









Business complex right next to the river (rive gauche). The entire thing was designed in the 60's in a completely post-modernistic style, which is probably the strangest type of architecture that exists: bright colors, bizarre angles and shapes, and the desire to place all buildings on stilts so that they look like lunar landing vehicles. This place was totally deserted and was very bizarre, kind of like being on the set of Clockwork Orange...












I have a thing for signs:









escalators that lead nowhere...





The post-modernist monstrosity:




I know I've seen this before...





Finishing off the rest of the film so I can develop it...









A beggar whom I see almost everyday, most likely from Turkey/Kurdistan.









Au revoir.