Got To Go Round

I don't know how anyone else spent the last day of 2021, but I spent it photographing a piece of rural property with a friend and photographer. These “play dates” are actually working dates. We agree on a location (urban more often than rural), bring our favorite camera du jour and then work the scene. The resulting photographs could not be more distinctly different.

Rollei 3.5 (Tessary) with Rolleinar attachment, Lomography Metropolis film shot at 400.

 I haven’t seen what my friend produced from that day. I received my film back from the lab today and this is a quick first pick. I like the tone, the undercurrent, the sense of a year ending that is conveyed in this photograph.

I Ain't No Chimp

OK. We know that there's a term called “chimping” that describes the habit of taking a picture and then immediately going, “Oh, oh, oh,” like a chimp, while reviewing it on the camera’s LCD screen. I shoot some digital myself, but I don't ooo or ahhh, but I do get that kind of chimp face when reviewing a shot I just took. Can't seem to stop that habit.

On the other hand, there's no opportunity to chimp with a film camera. That's one of the aspects I love about shooting film. Delayed gratification -- that's good for most things except sex. Anyway, I knew this shot would be a keeper as I took it. Call it intuition. Call it 40+ years of experience. Call it luck or karma. But it felt good and right and exciting.

Anyone seen my banana?