Motivation

This last week I did nothing. Literally. I sold my digital camera and my favorite lens for the Canon EOS system, but other than that nothing. Oh and bought a motorcycle with a small portion of the money... but thats basically it. So last night I finally started on the 5 rolls of black and white film I'd shot while home in Alaska. I was out of developer, so I had to mix it, and I'm almost out of hypoclearing, so I'm making up all these great excuses not to continue, but I just scanned the first two rolls and it got me excited again. One roll was mostly family pictures around the campfire, and a lot of them didn't turn out too well as it was pretty low lighting. I also realized that sometimes black and white pictures are difficult to show depth, especially when scanning them, as the scanning doesn't have the same contrast effects as printing them, or the dynamic range. Anyways, here are some to start with.

Its the cliche that "you won't know how they turned out for a while" with film, and I think that got me a little down as I was sure none turned out worth a damn. But now I'm excited again and am going to drag my lazy carcass to the darkroom to do some printing! Or maybe I'll develop the remaining rolls... or maybe I'll sit at my desk drinking coffee and wishing the internet wasn't so easy to beat...