I thought I would create a new thread to post the results of the project. I have credited each image to the project, and request the actual takers claim their image as the order on the film roll seems off from the order on the spreadsheet. Of course..
So check out the images below, and let me know which one is yours so I can correctly name the full size files when I upload them.
One Shot Photo Project, October 2023 - October 2024, spanning the planet, Ricoh FF1, Ilford HP5, Cinestill DF96 monobath developer. Scanned with a Nikon Z7, 60 2.8G, processed with negativelabpro.com.
This is a Veterans of Foreign Wars outpost. A bar/social club that provides support to those who have served. I have walked past it numerous times but have never gone in, as I am undeserving having not served.
I always enjoyed the symmetry of the building, as well as the mural.
"My shot #4 is a casual portrait of a guy who lives down on the Boardwalk in Pacific Beach. He is often found contentedly smoking the Bong he is holding. Sometime playing his trumpet. He is a nice and gentle person. But obviously a victim of the drug culture. I am doing a multi year photography project on the boardwalk. So, I see him often and always enquire about how he is doing. I sometimes bring him a meal to help keep him well. Mostly in Winter when the Boardwalk is quiet. Other times of year he gets plenty of money panhandling the tourists."
I chose this because it’s a newer Portland icon.
The donuts are small and a dozen equals about three regular donuts.
I like the symmetry of the building and how the sign is prominent.
I tried to capture the busy intersection and fortunately, there was a pedestrian.
That photo was taken at about 11:30 PM on New Year’s. It was a house party with about 40 to 50 people there—wonderful community of people that have known each other for years. People were chatting and swaying. The room was lit low but quite nicely and cinematically. In my mind, I had the vision of capturing silhouettes with slight motion blur running horizontally across the frame with stringed lights above.
In actuality, I’ve never tried something like that on film, could have been a bit more sober, and I actually don’t even know how, but I had some motion blur, even though I stabilized the camera by bracing it on the stair and firing while stabilizing it with my other hand like I often do without an issue.
Sorry I botched the frame— I thought I would be capturing something a little different than most on the roll. And I wasn’t wrong, but I didn’t get it right.
A few times every winter, a temperature inversion occurs in the upper Willamette Valley which creates dense fog at ground level with clearer skies above.
I'd been making the effort to hike to the top of a local butte to shoot this phenomenon, and the project camera happened to arrive at an opportune time. I spent most of this session shooting very long exposures on 6x9. I used a tripod for this shot in order to get the horizon level.
“OwlsEyes (Bruce Leventhal)... Tunnel to Marine on the St. Croix. Every year MN DOT repaints this tunnel entrance a neutral color and within a month Wylie Coyote is back as a splat on the entrance. The tunnel is about 10 miles from my home outside the border of William Obrien State Park.”
"It was literally my first analog shot in a very long time so I had no idea what I was doing! As you can tell. My dog is often game for a photo until I am just about to focus..."
“Lucky 18, always been my number since high school. Higher Key and Lower Contrast than I expected, but that’s film I guess. The Oak Island Pier’s cathedral view in the morning light. I had wished for calmer waters but I didn’t want to hold up the project and it got much rougher the next couple mornings. I wanted to capture the beach of my local area, funny that 16 had the same idea.”
19.@Lee Saxon
" I wish focus had been on the wall instead of the floor but the exposure turned out perfect!
We'd just finished up a long-running project renovating a house, so it was empty of furniture, giving me this nice section of open wall to work with. I'd noticed the sun creating some nice geometry a few times in the weeks leading up to getting the camera, but I hadn't gotten around to photographing it with my own camera. I actually had a particular landscape in mind originally for the group camera, but the weather didn't quite cooperate, so I decided this was the time to finally get my geometric sunset shot."
"And while I remembered taking a picture of my son outside, I forgot that my dog Niya was in the picture. She just passed away about 2 weeks ago. So it was sad and also special seeing her in the picture."
"We were having one of our peak bluebonnet blooms in Texas this year. It's rare that you can fill an entire frame with unbroken patches of them, and that's exactly what I had in front of me. I was stoked to send a little staple of the Texas summer along with the camera.
In my excitement of finding it, I...
1) did not think about black and white not really capturing, you know, BLUEbonnets effectively and
2) I had not looked at the FRONT of the camera on which the MFD was CLEARLY labeled, and instead I treated it like my Yashica in terms of MFD
I'm glad to see others had more success than I did!"
"taken when visiting the Kennedy Center in DC for a show. Initially planned to take a shot outside to get a good exposure but had to rush in to make the show on time. Thanks Huss for putting this together. Loved it and am definitely keeping my eyes open for future projects like these. Well done everyone."
"Picture taken at the Domaine Serene Winery in Dayton, OR in the Willamette Valley
The Willamette Valley is the same Latitude as Burgundy, and very similar climate which is part of the reason its known for its amazing Pinot Noir and Chardonay "
"This is the front entrance of the Government House, the accommodations for the Lieutenant Governor, the King's Representative to the Province of British Columbia. The primary task is to perform the sovereign's constitutional duties on his behalf, although the position is largely ceremonial. The estate is nearby & features 36 acres of gardens and a large grove of Garry Oaks, which make a favourite of mine for photo-walks.
In all honestly, not super proud of the shot, I wish I had held onto the camera a little longer... However it had arrived while I was away for work for some time, & once I had it in my hands I felt the need to get it on it's way to the next contributor prior to the weekend. That being said, I am super happy to be a part of the project and am stoked to see everyone's great shots. Looking forward to the next one!
Extra special thanks to Huss for putting this all together!!
I wasn't sure what I'd do for my shot. I also wasn't planning to write an essay, but oh well...
I didn't have a specific photo in mind, a big concept, etc. The camera arrived in the summer and I just wanted to do something fast and get it out to the next participant. I brought it along when I accompanied my wife to one of the stores she manages, in downtown Hamilton, Ontario. I thought I'd walk around downtown with my digital gear and also make the film shot. When we arrived at the store, a man high on drugs was making a lot of commotion in the transit shelter outside the front door. I watched him a while and noticed his stuff lined up on the bench and a yoga mat unrolled inside the shelter where he would sleep after the inevitable crash.
He was doing the usual drug-induced zombie impersonations when I decided this would be my photo. Initially it was all about the visuals - his strange movements resulted in unusual looking 'poses' that I thought would contrast the 'normal' environment around him. But of course, there is a 'bigger picture' here; drug addiction and overt public consumption, which in the last 4-5 years has become a much more frequent occurrence/problem in Hamilton, across Canada, and around the world. In Hamilton this has particularly affected the downtown area, which has a concentration of social services and the most affordable housing options. But the affordable housing crisis affecting the city (and country) has resulted in a dramatic increase in homelessness and public drug use.
As I stepped out the door two women approached from the left, momentarily blocked from view by a pillar at the store's entrance. I rushed forward to time the shot with them entering the frame. It was no-look from the waist; I thought I did it too early and from too far away, but the framing turned out closer to what I had in mind. I only got the one woman and in hindsight it was probably better I didn't wait longer, but in my rush I eliminated the option to wait until the guy provided a more 'expressive' pose.
Along the lines of this photo being a 'bigger picture' observation: in addition to the proliferation of drug use affecting Hamilton's inner city area and to a degree being a consequence of the area's housing crisis, the woman waking through the frame is representative of Hamilton's (and Canada's) evolving ethnocultural cross-section (refer to information from Statistics Canada). Hamilton/Canada was very WASPy until around the 70s. Since the 80s-90s, immigration trends moved away from Europe to Asia, SE Asia, Middle East, Africa, etc. In the last few years, as Canada's immigration admissions have increased to about 500,000 annually, there has been more discussion about whether these numbers (one of the highest among similar countries) continue to bring the economic benefits used as the basis for this policy and how it affects the affordable housing shortage that has increasingly marginalized low wage earners, and the ability of the percentage of immigrants categorized as low-skilled to successfully establish themselves and become economical contributors to the country.
At its most basic, this photo is a reminder about some my summer in 2024, during which I often accompanied my wife to this store. She would ask me to join her whenever I was available and she was the only one staffing it at opening, in part to assist with heavy lifting and other chores. But also as an informal security guard to keep an eye on the customer area and that the washroom didn't become a drug user's crash pad. I spent a fair amount of time sitting at the window watching the streetscape of this photo. I learned the transit shelter was a preferred location for drug users to take their hits and sleep off the inevitable crash. It provided a safe space that prevented them from staggering into busy traffic, but of course prevented transit patrons use of the space. The bus stop brought frequent foot traffic and an ever-changing street scene. Many people would lean against the store's windows for rest and shade. The vast majority always faced the street and rarely turned around to look into the store. Except young children. They appeared to be restless observers of the world around them and I had many humorous interactions with children peering into the store, hands cupped around their eyes to block out the bright environment for a better view of the scene on the other side of the glass. So, occasionally I became the observed rather than being the observer. Overall, it wasn't all bad. Rather, it was fairly representative of life in general with the expected mix of the good, the bad and the ordinary.
"this is from the top of the Tour du Port de Montréal, a tower in the old port here in Montréal. The two people in the photo were tourists who were brave enough to stand on the glass cubicle."
The photo was taken in the main projection hall of the cinema Le Cosmos, a cultural landmark of the city of Strasbourg. The cinema offers a variety of themed movies and activities related to cinema, art and news.
The theater is a protected historical building as it’s one of the oldest french cinemas.
I like stories more than anything so it was a fitting place to write that short one with a photo.
Going back to film photography, participating to the One Shot Photo, meeting Fiona, having access to that location, it happened very much by chance in the span of that year where the project took place. And now there is that one shot to remember it all.
"I wanted to show some piece of my hometown. Limhamn harbour in Malmö, a place i often go to relax. Malmö is a small city so it's only a 20 minute car ride even though I live in the other end. When I was 21 (1993) my local paper asked me to go there in the spring and make a photo story of the people preparing their boats for launch. Since that moment I allways had the idea that Im gone get a boat there myself when I retire."
"It was with a mixture of anticipation and fear/nervousness that I unpacked the camera. I was really looking forward to receiving it. But what to make of this? I felt a great responsibility (in taking care of the camera / managing it). I really didn't want to ruin it either for myself or for the others in the project.
I therefore hardly dared to take out and squeeze the camera. What if I happen to reach the trigger?
It was therefore only when I was going to take the picture that I really handled the camera.
My ambition was to do something unique with the image. Preferably from the place where I live. I considered taking a picture from the square trade but I doubted what it would bring. I then also decided that I really wanted to include a human being in the picture.
I had the camera for a few days before I finally just decided to take it out with me and capture something that is part of my everyday life.
One day my wife and I were going sailing and I thought a picture from the sailing might be a moment as good as anything.
I had an idea to photograph my wife in her bathing suit. But it didn't quite turn out that way. There was no swimsuit weather. Instead, it was a picture from our boat in the weather that day offered.
Now it was a picture from the sea, with Varberg's fortress in the background."
I took my 12-year-old to a local carnival because he was feeling a little down. We walked around, went on a few rides, and soon he started to smile. I told him about this project, and he thought it was super cool that the camera traveled all around the world. While watching this ride, I used a slow enough shutter speed to capture a slight blur.
Still at the carnival, as we were leaving, I thought the film was finished. I advanced it and decided to test it before putting it away, just in case, since I was the last one in the project. I spotted a carnival worker sitting at her game table, looking very happy to be there, and asked if I could take her picture. She was surprised and said, “You want to take a picture of me?” I said yes, and explained that out of all the people here, she was the one who caught my attention. The camera was set to fully auto.
Picture taken at the Domaine Serene Winery in Dayton, OR in the Willamette Valley
The Willamette Valley is the same Latitude as Burgundy, and very similar climate which is part of the reason its known for its amazing Pinot Noir and Chardonay
Picture taken at the Domaine Serene Winery in Dayton, OR in the Willamette Valley
The Willamette Valley is the same Latitude as Burgundy, and very similar climate which is part of the reason its known for its amazing Pinot Noir and Chardonay