As it happened conditions were favorable and I feel like I got the most out of a single roll of Velvia. Usually I try to structure visits to such places to have more time, but on this day I was just passing through for an afternoon. These were all made on Velvia 50 with my trusty Nikon F6.
I'm submitting a series of images made this past September in Badlands National Park. For my color work I'm still in love with E6 and have my first rolls of the new Ektachrome ready for the lab. I gravitate towards the Ilford Delta films, Delta 100, 400, and of course Pan F. An ongoing challenge (compulsion) is to see how far I can push 35mm film.įor my black and white work I've moved back in the darkroom to a more traditional silver wet print process. I shoot color and black and white in both medium format and 35mm. There's much, much more behind it, but that's what comes to mind at the moment. Being a student of the world, digesting it one frame at a time. There are consequences costs associated with it, so one tends to pay closer attention to what's in the frame - which to me - is one of the primary reasons for being "out there" shooting in the first place. The natural mechanics of shooting film force a more structured, thoughtful approach to each shutter release. If feels more like you've just created something new. As a result of exposing a roll of film you have something in your hand transcending ones and zeros. So many things, really - again, it's difficult to summarize but here goes: I think the core attraction is it's a tangible, analogue process. I travel quite a bit, specifically the Rocky Mountain West, and always have a good many cameras of different formats and flavors with me. I've been shooting for many years - at times trying to figure out a way to assign greater meaning to justify the compulsion. It's difficult to summarize my involvement with photography and film because it's such an important part of who I am as a person and an artist.
I am a film photographer in Colorado, USA focusing primarily on travel, scenics, landscape, documentary, etc.