Film Photography

Here are a couple of photos that I shot this past November while paddling the Green River with my friend Spencer:

Unknown boater entering Bride of Frankenstein rapid.

Spencer boofing into Bride at the start of the run.

Spencer, Sunshine Falls.

This was my return to shooting film (Kodak 100NC in this case) after a few years hiatus in the digital realm, and I found it very refreshing. To me, shooting film has all the warmth and nostalgia of listening to an LP. There’s also more interplay with the medium in film photography. Shooting with a digital SLR produces immediate, controlled results whereas the film process requires more patience and often produces surprises in the results. It’s a hell of a lot more expensive to work with film, but in the weeks following this first photographic venture I would go on to shoot my first rolls of slide film and 120mm print film (in a Holga camera: Holga on Wikipedia). In my opinion, the expense proved well worth the results. Yes, there’s much more to come.