Interblog

Interblog - Images by Geoff Waugh


So here I am in my hotel room on my penultimate day in the City of Sin. It's 100 degrees outside (always sounds hotter in old money!) at 11am. Praise be for air con. Anyway, part of my mission here was to shoot some products at the Interbike show for MBR magazine. Whilst trawling the enormous halls one couldn't help but notice the recurring theme was fixed gear bicycles. They are all over the shop. Even suspension bike gurus Foes had made one. Doesn't it look mean in its aluminium scaled skin? But since I am into the aesthete of the old school (I never used to be and blame Rapha for that!) I only had eyes for the classic rides. I have posted a few here for you delectation. Nice aren't they? Just a drop in the fixie ocean really. Cinelli had em, the Taiwanese booths had loads of em. And then, I spotted this white Volvo just like The Saint drove back in the day. Wicked!

Vegas baby..

I must admit I'm pretty excited about jumping on the big red bus to Las Vegas. The last time I was there was 2003 when I took in the Interbike show and then drove onto Virgin,(little airline link there..) Utah to cover the Red Bull Rampage. Since there's been a bit of a film renaissance in the Waugh household, I took a detour to Calumet to pick up some 120 roll film, before visiting Rouleur magazine. I am in a quandry as to what to take to the city of sin. My heart says Holga, but I was very pleased with the results from the Bronica SQ (see Roadwrites piece below) and the pix I got from my Fuji 645 in Vegas last time were nice too. As you see, I bought 160VC, Portra 800 for dusk and night shots, some EPP - the best stock for cross processing- and a brick of Kodak BW400CN which will be nice for some desert high contrast stuff and is especially good through a Holga. So what to use? I may toss a coin. I may lose some coin. It is Vegas afterall.....

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