Surprises

 And I thought I had it all figured out.

35mm Summicron

I think I’m going to go back to shooting film.  I have always kept my toe in it; I still have my darkroom, processing tanks, and enlarger. I think I might make more of an effort to shoot two or three rolls a month and see what happens. 

There’s a certain something I just can’t get with digital.  I don’t hate digital; it’s just, well… Darn it…. it is too clean.  Though, I may have gotten used to the ease of digital.  We’ll see.

This image was taken some years ago while visiting my oldest, now 23, at Culver Woodcraft Camp.  She and her younger brother were not always on the best of terms, so when, out of the blue, she gave a hug.

Now, they seem to talk all the time, even in a text group their mom and I are not part of.  I wonder if this is a good thing or bad. Time will tell.



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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955

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