on b+w photography

Here is a photo I took of my wife the other day. She was talking on the phone in the dining room around magic hour and the soft light coming through the large window looked incredible. The walls in our dining room are fairly dark so they just went black in the photo.

Technical info: Canon EOS 5D @ 500ASA, 1/50 sec shutter; Canon EF50mm f/1.4 USM lens @ T1.4

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I was in NYC the day before 9/11. My flight returned to Orlando, FL, where I lived at the time, on 9/10/01. I was standing on top of the world trade center on 9/07/01. Significant events happen in our lives, but life keeps moving on with or without us and we don't fully realize the impact they had on us until much later.


I shot this super 8 footage on that trip to NYC and when I returned home I put the film on a shelf in my closet and it sat there for 4 years. Then I moved to LA and it sat in my closet there for another 2 years. I finally got it developed and then telecined on 9/10/2007. I don't know why I sat on the film for so long, I honestly have no explanation for it.

WTC 09.07.2001 from JOHN W. RUTLAND on Vimeo.