I’ve been in something of a photographic funk lately. As of 18 September, 2021, I had 4 cameras with film in and three rolls awaiting development, and had no interest in doing anything with any of them.
I pulled myself out of this funk long enough to develop the three rolls—*yawn—and here are some scenes from the garden.
The overly aggressive flash on the otherwise excellent Olympus Infinity II really did a nice job, I think, and I especially like this one picture of some, I think, Purple Hyacinth bean flowers (Dolichos Lablab).
In an attempt to rid myself of this funk, I’m going to take a few weeks off. I’ll be back to my regular schedule hopefully sometime in mid-October or early November. Don’t miss me too much.
Don't do what I did... or maybe do, now that you know what can happen. Petzval Week Behind the scenes: Fun with Curled Film Film curls. Some film curls more than others. Some film rolls up along its length as if it misses being stuffed into the canister. This one…
Analog to the rescue! After all the digital woes (that I didn't know about till I returned), I'm so glad I took the LC-A and a couple of rolls of film along. Without them, I'd have only a few shots from the phone to share.* Alhamdulillah. I didn't shoot much…
Oh, how I wish I'd thought about using a filter... Honestly, the scenes in this roll didn't really beg for it quite like scenes in the park, but still. It would've come in handy. If you missed it in the last post, this roll was developed in Ilfotec HC 1:31…
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