Perilously close to the ‘making my own film developer’ stage of my #BelieveInFilm life. That may be because I have the new edition of The Darkroom Cookbook, a tub of borax, and lots of the required things already. I’m interested in doing experiments to make old or experimental developer chemicals you can’t buy off the shelf. (Already did the coffee and plants thing, it is fun but not for me)
Two-way shadow. The sun is reflecting off a building behind me, causing shadows to be cast in both directions. Cinestill 400D on a Rollei 35s. #Photography#BelieveInFilm
Intelligence is the solitary strength of extracting from the chaos of one's own life the handful of light sufficient to illuminate a little further than oneself, towards the other over there, like us lost in the dark. [Christian Bobin, french author]. (2024).
iPhone camera, digital processing, Polaroid i-Type film emulsion lift on watercolor paper.
I took a new (to me) lens to San Francisco, the Canon FD 50mm/1.4, which I haven't had a chance to test before going (which I in hindsight realized was not very wise). I shot 4 rolls of film on the trip. Eagerly awaiting the scans to come back from the lab...
Let's try a new format for photography / storytelling.
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Lately, I've been thinking about what it means to have come from the equator. Imagine growing up with no seasons, except 'rain' and 'monsoon' and 'hot' and 'hotter'. Everything around you is green, all year round, never brown. Lush is not just the word they use in magazines about tropical travel, but it's the only world you know.