The Chronicles of John Trammell

For the past 12 years, I have been taking photographs, having them displayed all over southern california, and have won awards for my work.  I learned how to take photographs with a 35mm camera.  All of my best winner photographs have been taken on film.  As time goes on, i feel that people have forgotten the legacy of how good film is.  With digital cameras making life so much easier, people seem to forget film.  It makes it hard for people like me who love to take Black & White photographs.  I feel that digital is not yet at a place where it can take really good black and white.  With a 35 mm film or with any film camera for that matter, you can get some really good quality stuff.  There is no one around anymore that developes black and white film.  Im not talking about that one film from kodak that you can process like color prints.  Im talking the true black and white films.  I cant even find those films in the local stores ...

This past weekend has been one hell of an adventure with one of my friends that I met in 4-H, but moved to Indiana. On friday afternoon, I drove down to Santa Monica to meet up with Jess.  I was an hour early, so i parked and walked down to the beach to watch the sunset.  After the sun disapeared in the horizon jess called me and said her conference was over and she will meet me at her hotel.  Instead of walking to the car and driving, i decided to walk a few blocks to her hotel. We met up, took her lugage to the car, and of course go back to the Santa Monica Pier to go geocaching.  Sadly, there where only 3 caches in the area.  After we found the caches, we decided to head off home since we thought the traffic calmed down.  It was alittle bad, but we got home under 2 hours.  We stoped in Redlands to eat dinner at denny's.  Woot! That night we begun to plan our main geocaching day on saturday.  Around 1 in the morning we noticed there wer...