Harman Phoenix

 

I've shot a couple of rolls with Harman Phoenix, a new experimental color film that debuted recently, (was it early last year?  Keeping track of time is not one of my strong suits).  Here is the Raleigh, with my wife's Long Haul Trucker behind it, parked in the Santa Fe Railyard.  The color is fine, and is really not so far off that I think "Wow!"  It seemed to work better for me when we were on the East Coast when Laura was donating a kidney to a friend of ours.  The greens really come through in an amazing way. Here is Laura at the Botanical Gardens in Chapel Hill.

I like what happened with the film with that particular shot, and with a lot of the other shots from the botanical garden.  I think it is really the color palette of the landscape, in conjunction with the experimental nature of the film.  The browns and reds and greens of the desert southwest may not bring out the best in the film.

Here's a shot of Monte Sol through a gap in the trees on the trail between Atalaya and Picacho Peak.  The greens of the pines look fine, but they don't really pop. And here's me on a trail somewhere:

Nothing really stands out.  It just looks like the film was old, or the photograph itself has been sitting around on the refrigerator for forty years.  I took this current roll because I have been thinking about taking it into the Grand Canyon next month, for my next trip along the Escalante Route, but I think I'll stick with Ektar 100 for color.  The photos on the current roll were shot with a Yashica Electro GSN, (my one true cheap thrift store find, $15), and the shots in North Carolina were made with the Olympus OM-1n, but I don't think the cameras played much of a roll in how the photos turned out.  (Thanks to The Darkroom for their color developing!)