For special occasions: two birthdays and a wedding reception, on Cinestill 800T, Kodak Ultramax 400, Cinestill 400D, and Ultramax again.
And it also gives me a chance to use different cameras than the F2 I’ve used nearly exclusively in my photo project over the last 2 years. So I brought out the Nikon F2A and F4, and Canon V-L.
Nothing much, just a compilation.
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For whatever reason (probably involving space or storage issues), my parents didn’t keep their film negatives. They cared about little 5×3.5 prints for the photo albums and once they had those anything extemporaneous got tossed, sadly. Out of ~15 years of photo albums that I went through at my mother’s house, I found 9-10 rolls of film negatives, some incomplete, but these are going to yield the highest-quality images I’m ever likely to get out of my brother’s and my childhood. I put them all through my Pakon F335 and finished in Affinity Photo.
Now I’m grateful that we have all the photo albums and some of these are pictures I remember from them. Others are ones I thought were good compositions, or had some other je ne sais quoi about them: they’re just nice portraits. Some are so memorable as photographs that they transcend the memory itself in my mind, and they have a certain notoriety among our circle of Ohio friends from that time. I’ve tried to sequence the images chronologically, as much as ever I can. They span years from 1992 to about 2000 or early 2001.
These rolls run the gamut, some Fuji 100 & 200, Kodak Gold 100 & 200, and CP100. The black & white shot is Plus-X. I guess we were never really people to splurge for expensive or higher-speed film stocks. There are several rolls which start at our home in central Ohio and end with us on vacation in Florida. All or almost all of these would have been taken with my mom’s Minolta XG-A as that was pretty much the only camera we ever had.
All the nighttime activities I’ve engage in. There are none of them taken under what I would call “ideal” lighting and while I’m often using fast lenses, I’m having to shoot wide open with slow shutter speeds. Even then I’d call some of these underexposed. Most of these photos were taken during gatherings I’ve attended: shows, dinners, Christmas and birthday parties. Most of them feature my friends and coworkers. A few are more solitary which contrast the joys of togetherness with the pain of solitude. All instantly call to my mind some intense memories and a wealth of emotions.
This was an unsuccessful submission to a print zine; still, I thought that they worked incredibly well together as a series. Most have been seen here before. Cameras used: Canon 7, Pentax ES, Olympus Trip 35, Nikon F, Nikon F2, Nikon F2A. Film: Eastman Double-X, Kodak Tri-X, Ilford XP2.
Seriously, dude.
Nikon F2A, Kodak Tri-X
Nikon F2 (black), Ilford XP2
With friends.
And lots of board games!
Every once in a while on tours we’re lucky enough to see wildlife, and then sometimes it’s domesticated, sometimes it’s just free-range humans grazing for selfies.
These are all from the 2021 season, though I do have a post which stretches outwards on either side.
Celebrating 10 years of The Resurrected Camera today. Here are 10 photos, not only that I like a lot, but also that I took in that year and published in that same year. Considering that I just recently posted photos from 4+ years ago (and do that pretty regularly) this was a challenging parameter to set for myself and made it fun. I hope you enjoy:
2014 Esther Sparks & the Whiskey Remedy – Kodak Tr-X
2015 The last Redheaded Zombie Show, with friends Timmy and Colin – Cinestill 800T
2016 Chris lighting his pipe – Eastman Double-X
2017 Cardiff Castle shell keep – Fuji Velvia 100
2018 Shaina and Gabe, one of my few commissions – Fuji Superia 400
2019 Tracking down relatives in graveyards all over Southeast Ohio – Kodak Tri-X
2020 Blizzard hike through the Garden – Ferrania P30 alpha
2021 The next generation at Flying W Ranch – Ilford XP2 Super
2022 Train passengers freshly offloaded on Pike’s Peak – Kodak Tri-X
2023 Photo showcase and portfolio review – Kodak Tri-X
I also recently got to 500 followers; it’s hard to know which are actual people and which are bots, and it’s not like all of the accounts that follow me are still active. Still, thanks to all of you that have supported me over the years. I don’t know what the next decade will bring, but here I am…
August 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the cassette tape. I don’t know exactly what date is the official anniversary because there were a lot of articles a decade ago from the beginning of August all the way into September and I’m not sure any of them agreed on a date, but this is definitely the birth month. I thought that I would give you guys an album of my cassette-related photography:
Some of these are my promo shots from my first (though to date only) album Lacrimosa back in 2013, my collection of Type II tapes, for feeding my Tascam portastudio (pictured last). I should probably get some better pictures of my Tascam 244 the next time I pull it out of storage. The one I included is a favorite of mine though, because kitties playing music, of course. And speaking of the Tascam portastudio last year was the 40th anniversary of probably the most notable album to ever be recorded on the format. And of course these days it’s pretty popular to put out your album on tape, thankfully people like NAC are still around for bands to do that!
Everything dies baby, that’s a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
-Bruce Springsteen
The Resurrected Camera 