Equipment

With this roll of film I've started my 2011 Solo Photo Book Month project.

This is my fourth year participating in SoFoBoMo. In 2008 I tried a 4x5 project, but didn't complete it due to the volume of photos needed for the book. In 2009 I shot NYC Street Bikes with a Yashica Mat-124G which broke down (again) shortly after finishing the book. In 2010 I shot Street Fixtures with a Pentax K20D. This year I'll be using my Pentax K-1000 SE.

After the first year my strategy has been to have more than one project in progress. Once I have enough photos I can choose which project works best. Last year I shot a series of store fronts with a Pentax 67II, but I wasn't happy with my film scans, so I fell back on the street fixtures project. In 2009 I had planned a second book after the bikes, but ran out of time after dealing with reducing the disk size of the bike PDF to get it within the file size limit for the sofobomo.org site.