The absurdity of driving through a neighborhood and spotting this is unimaginable. Driving along at lunch time in 2018, in the highly overrated pre-pandemic days where you actually left home for work all the time and you went to lunch and, if you thought you were going to pass by something interesting, you’d have your camera with you. It’d be nice if we could have avoided the deaths and suffering and just implemented the “hybrid work schedule” without a pandemic. In many IT professions, things were beginning to move this way before 2020, albeit quite a bit more slowly.
As good fortune would have it, my camera was loaded with slide film at the time. The elite stuff, too – Fuji Provia 100F. Slide film is something that every photographer should try once. To be honest, it’s stupidly expensive. Most modern day negative films have caught up with (some have even surpassed) slide films in terms of quality. The chemistry to develop it yourself is expensive and has a terrible shelf life. Aside from the cool factor, there’s little more reason to use it frequently. It is definitely cool, and the feeling of seeing colorful positive images on your wet film reel when you uncoil it is irreplaceable.
A crumpled up car hood, propped up against a utility pole, with the phrase “not free, seriosly (note the bad misspelling), spray painted on it. In hot pink, no less. Everything about this makes it artistically film-worthy.
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