I find it puzzling that at some gas stations, the price of gasoline depends on the form of payment: cash or credit.
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Tag: Black and White
Ilford HP5 400 Memories (Old Negatives)
Bhavna found some treasure in a box in the basement.
Ilford HP5 35mm B&W Film I recently purchased a Kodak Scanza film scanner from Amazon.com to scan some of my mid-80s Kodachrome slides, but the scanner can scan B&W white negatives. Early in my photography journey, shooting in B&W was easier. 35mm Colour film was too distracting and did not have the "art" look I was into at the time. But after scanning dozens of frames of T-MAX 400, I was surprised to find 24 frames of Ilford HP5 35mm B&W Film negatives in my film photograph "archives".
Ilford HP5 35mm B&W Film was a high speed (ISO 400) traditional panchromatic film imported into USA and old between 1976–1989. Ilford is a manufacturer of photographic materials based in Mobberley, Cheshire, UK and is known worldwide for its black and white films, papers and chemicals. The company declared bankruptcy in 2004. Harman Technology Ltd bought the rights to the band "Ilford Photo". The successor to Ilford HP5 is Ilford HP5 Plus.
Since I found only one set of Ilford HP5 negatives among my "film treasure chest", and since over 30 years later, my memory is faulty, I can only speculate that either Ilford HP5 35mm B&W Film was expensive or not to my liking. Comparing Ilford HP5 negatives to Kodak T-MAX negatives, I think I prefer the Ilford HP5. At present, a 36-exposure roll of Ilford HP5 Plus is cheaper than Kodak Tri-X 400 or Kodak T-MAX 400, so assuming it was always this way, my tastes have changed.
The film strip did not have any dates but based on the "Happy Birthday" sign and the International House banner, and I deduced that the negatives are from November 1988, my fall Sophomore semester at Drew University. I think everyone else had left for Thanksgiving, and only my roommate and myself were left in the International House.
Rajat Sikka was my roommate in my sophomore semesters (1987-1988) at Drew University. He and I roomed together because Raj insisted, and I had no good reason to say no. Raj, as it turned out, was a womanizing-boozing-smoking-party young man. He hooked up with a different girl each weekend, even while dating several others. I could not keep track of their names and faces, but they were always white and blond. Arjun was a year ahead of us, but he and Raj were inseparable. We spent a lot of time in the basement at the International House eating rasgulla and gulab jamun, smoking, and talking bullshit. Raj, Arjun and another student, Finn McClain, were my ticket to all the fabulous weekend parties. I attend a few, but not a lot.
This might have been Jamie coming to drive me to his home for Thanksgiving. I remember spending at least one Thanksgiving with Jamie's family.
I'm not sure about how it fared during the COVID-19 lockdown, but the Callaloo Cafe had been around for a very long time.
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Hoping to make some photographs for a photo challenge, I went into Princeton and walked around near the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
From Wikipedia:
In 1930, Princeton University established the School of Public and International Affairs, which was originally meant to serve as an interdisciplinary program for undergraduate students in Princeton's liberal arts college. In 1948, the School added a graduate professional program and was renamed to honor Woodrow Wilson, who was the 13th president of the University, governor of New Jersey and the 28th president of the United States.
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In 2015, student protesters forced Princeton to reconsider having the School named after Wilson due to his racist views, of which they disapproved. The Wilson Legacy Review Committee ultimately decided to keep his name attached to the School, noting that, like many other notable figures from American history, Wilson had a "complex legacy of both positive and negative repercussions".On June 26, 2020, following the eruption of George Floyd protests and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Princeton University Board of Trustees decided to rename the Woodrow Wilson School the "Princeton School of Public and International Affairs", citing Wilson's "racist thinking and policies [that] make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must stand firmly against racism in all its forms." It was also announced that Wilson College, the first of Princeton's six undergraduate residential colleges, will be renamed First College. Woodrow Wilson opposed admitting African-American students to Princeton and introduced racial segregation into the United States federal civil service as President.
I wanted to capture the intensity of the contrast between the white of the columns and the shadows but the overhead clouds didn't care what I wanted, obscuring much of the light. I also think I arrived an hour too late.
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