I’ve been photographing so much black and white material recently, and experimenting with various film stocks and developing solutions, that I thought I might have been neglecting my lovely Fujifilm X-T5 a little. So, in case it was feeling a little neglected, I made it two nice measures of espresso.
Needless to say, after I’d showed the coffee to the camera, and made a few images, I felt compelled to drink the stuff. It would be rude not to. Or, as I remarked to my Much Better Half, when she asked me what on earth I was doing, “One cannot simply MAKE coffee, – one MUST photograph it!”
Tim (my son) who is a coffee aficionado, bought me some ’38 Coffee’ whole beans for Christmas. I’d duped him into thinking I was getting a brand new professional Gaggia from Santa, and he kindly thought that I’d need some beans for the big day – and of course to make him a decent cup of Americano. I was lying, of course – a serious breach of ethics, and one of those conscience riddled challenges that we all face from time to time.
Here’s a coffee-pod holding device sitting on our kitchen bench, located in the Cocoon kitchen. You may well ask, why would anyone in their right mind make a black and white photograph, with a Fujifilm X-T2, of a coffee-pod thingy anyway? There may be several reasons:
Sheer boredom.
The photographer concerned in actually NOT in his right mind.
Beause, like Mt. Everest, it is there.
Because said photographer is half deaf, and thought the man with the lisp was ordering a graphic for his pod-cache.
YOU be the judge!
Fujifilm X-T2, F=18mm, f/3.6 @ 1/60th sec on ISO400. Acros Film Simulation.
It’s that time again – a skinny decaf flat white, with my special added secret ingredient. Made of course, in time honoured fashion using Illy freshly ground Beans and the Gaggia espresso machine.
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