This is the corner Burke Avenue and White Plains Road. I had my first apartment about a block from this spot. I was 17 and wanted to prove that I could take care of myself. My mother allowed me to, as long as I stayed with an older family member. My 20 year old family was my roommate. The rent was $450 a month. I worked at a McDonald’s about 25-ish blocks away on E 241st Street. This was also when I bought my first camera.

My first camera was a used Olympus XA (I reviewed the Olympus Mju-II, its successor, HERE.) I wish I understood at the time what I understand now. I would have paid the extra money to maintain all of my film negatives. I would take my already shot film to a place band have them make 4 x 5’s. Lol

for editing, I used Silver EFEX Pro on this image and applied The Kodak Tri-X 400 simulation. After some simple tweaks to contrast, I think it came out great. Let me know what you think.

-Maurice