In the past year I have shot more film than any other year of my life. The majority of it has been in black and white, although I can't resist running a roll of slide film through my Honeywell every now and again. All of these images have been shot either on a Pentax Honeywell Spotmatic or an Olympus Stylus 150 with Tri-X, Ektachrome, Fuji 200, or Ektar 100. They have mostly been scanned on a Noritsu, but I have scanned some of the more recent ones on a flatbed Epson. The first images were taken on Thanksgiving last year, and the last ones a week ago. I haven't had an open lab to process and scan the ones I shot yesterday. The order is loosely chronological.
Every single image tells the story of a particular aspect of my state of mind at the moment of capture, regardless who the subject is. It's insanely interesting and motivating to me to go back and look at images I've forgotten about or hidden away. The ones I share on social media are always the ones I judge to be the overall 'best' under an ambiguous set of parameters I've developed. It's interesting to think about how the world would perceive my work should I choose to share a different set of images altogether and hide others. Whatever the case, these are ones that didn't make the original cut to be shared but are still extremely important. And of course I've thrown in a few of my old favorites which still cling hard to my heart.
One final observation is in the insane amount of changes that are documented here. I have done so much in a single year I sit here typing exhausted, not from a strenuous yesterday or prior week, but from a series of transitions so long and so intense it's all I can do to sit here and reminisce to rest. I have probably a hundred negatives worth printing that I haven't even looked at and the to-do list stays long, although oddly enough not daunting. Particularly for the holiday in today's name I'm in the perspective that these are all good things, everything that has happened to lead me here and everything ahead. Here are the reminders:
