I took this photo the second summer I lived in New York. I’d just picked up my film camera again after many many years of neglect. I had basically no idea how to use it, aside for being able to read a light meter. This is still one of my favorite photographs from the four years I lived there.

July 14, 2009, Coffee Shop (in Union Square)

taken with a Minolta X-700. 50mm lens, unknown exposure.