i shoot film
What Is Photography To You?
What is photography to you? Does it change depending on the format you're using?
I try to shoot with film constantly and every time I get my pictures back from the photo store, they feel so much more precious than my digital snaps. I love the graininess of it, the unexpected purple hue, the sense that I photographed something well without the help of a computer telling me that I'm not exposing properly.
I didn't realize this but photography has become the thing I go to when I need a moment of quietness. When I'm feeling just a little bit too suffocated by people...work....life, I instinctively grab my camera and go for long walks.
And analog forces me to focus on a photo and let me just phase out my worries.
All images photographed on Kodak Portra 400 with a Hasselblad
I Gotta Kick Start Now
Nikon N8008s Fujichrome Velvia 50 Slide Film I'm holding steady. It's my birthday month. I'm treating myself a bit and seems like April will be good.
Life Is But A Dream
Holga, Ilford FP4 Plus film.
I have a bad habit of snapping some photos on my film cameras, leave them to dust for few months and snap some more. Then I wait like another year to develop the roll. So by the time I scan the roll, I have shots from 2012...2011.
I took these with my Holga, a plastic toy camera that I bought on Ebay 11 years ago for $10, and there are few shots where I don't remember when and where I took them. It's like a dream. I remember certain details about random dreams I have had but they are foggy. There are certain details in these shots that sort of give me an idea where and when these were taken.
The older I get the more I try to remember.