Here's one I made a few hours ago, whenever that was. This picture won me over right away, which makes me happy. In this digital age where ctr+z is all you need, having to retry something isn't too big a deal. But for me, getting it right the first time is cash.
It is a good time of year for me in terms of making pictures. I am lucky enough to have access to a university darkroom to use whenever I like. This is especially great during the off season because nobody else is there, and because of that I am able to really concentrate and do well to make good artistic decisions. More than that though, as photo nerdy as it may be, I am more myself there alone in the darkroom than I am anywhere else. Paradoxically, outside in the big world things are... I dunno, how's it go Buddha? Something like exhaustively claustrophobic, cramped is this life at home, dusty indeed it's sphere. It's strange, I feel more free and loose in the darkroom. My mind is able to flow, and from that flow tangible results can be seen. Conversely, when I'm outside the darkroom, all that same energy and concentration is confined to just my mind, cramped in there while I'm at home.
I'm not sure if you other artists out there feel the same way. I hope so, because as dusty life might be outside the lab, just that feeling or notion helps to reassure I might be on the right path.
I shot this source last week while getting poison ivy and bug bites with a few friends. We were out during the evening wandering around a school park or something, and I saw this corner with some decent light on it. Even still it was an 8 sec exposure on Kodak TMAX 400, testing out a camera I'm borrowing a Bronica SQ-A, this feller:
Also when I saw the well lit corner after I developed the film it reminded me of another picture by the same dude I featured in this entry, Kevin Pinardy.
This one is called "Beauty Prison" from two thousand something. Check him out! http://www.pinardy.com/
One other thing it reminds me of though is that breakaway bridge from Zelda 2, you had to be slick to get that bag o' points!
