MTV became MTV. The Madonna Look. Shoulder Pads. The Big Hair. The Mullet. Oh, yeah. You know what I’m talking about. The 80s!
We are young, heartache to heartache we stand… No promises, no demands…
Love is a battlefield
Hit me with your best shot! Fire away!
Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon…
You come and go… You come and go
Remember when there was no TiVo? What was High Definition then? Or a DVD for that matter? My favorite… no Internet! My high school ended when AOL was on the rise. I started my college experience as a computer enthusiast. My first programming class required us to code a simple program that generated two little words: “Hello, World!” Now, there are numerous programming languages. It’s no longer HTML. It’s CSS.
Okay, your eyes are probably glazing right now and I lost you. Let me get you back on track: I started my photographic career with the boom of the digital era. I can’t tell you how many new photographers’ eyes glaze over having to think of ‘film’, ‘darkroom’, ‘chemicals’. I was fortunate to have had a black and white film class and had to process our own negatives. The only thing I didn’t do was take advantage of it. I didn’t know that film was going to be part of ‘yesterday’.
Just recently, I assisted for a great photographer and lo and behold, my job included loading a film back! It was a blast to (not from) the past and made me want to pull out all my old transparencies and negatives and share them with the world.
4×5 View Camera. Tungsten film. [Gallery>Still Life]
Other images on transparency film:
Film reminds me of Christmas and birthdays. It’s that special something you always wanted but sounds too good to be true… until you open the present. You take a frame (not a dozen) because each photograph should be memorable. You cross your finger and get butterflies in your stomach waiting in anticipation for the lab to return your roll of film. When you finally get to see the negative/transparency, you feel euphoric… Why? Because you got something better than you expected.
