Out of Date

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 anymore.  I pulled out the old 35 mm over the weekend and took some shots.  It felt good working with that camera again.  For the past few years, I have really slowed down on my photography.  That is all I used to talk about and do.  This June im going to Yosemite National Park and I want to take black and white as well as color, but I need to find the film and processing.  Sure I can develop my own black and white film.  I have all the equipment for that, but I dont have an elarger to make prints.  I can probably find the film online, maybe the processing, but man that is going to be expensive.  I am very upset that this form of photography is going out of date.  Film will always have more quality then any digital camera, and with film, you can have the biggest photo you can have.  You just need the equipment.  Someday, when i have money, ill build my own dark room, so I can continue the legacy of film photography

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Earning a Masters During a Global Crisis

Image
The past fourteen months have been among one of the most challenging yet rewarding chapters in my life.  A rollercoaster of emotions filled with hope, fear, exhaustion, stress, sense of community, success, burnout, loneliness, and everything in between.  This wild ride began in February 2020, when I returned to school to earn a Masters of Science in Organizational Leadership (MSOL) from the University of Redlands.  The choice to return to school was two fold.  The first was to learn and overflow my toolbox with skills to be a stronger leader that will positively increase my leadership at The Wildlands Conservancy, the California 4-H Youth Development Program, and beyond.  The second was that it was the right time in my life to return to school.  I was financially sound with no debt, currently single with no family, and qualified for some financial assistance through work to help pay for the program.  As I stepped on campus for the first time for the program orientation in mid-February,
Read more

Reflecting on 2016

      2016 was a great year.  It was filled with adventure, life milestones, hard work, and possibilities for 2017.  Since I have not written on my blog for the year, I wanted to reflect on some of the changes that have happened.       As 2015 was coming to an end, I had learned that Executive Headquarters at The Wildlands Conservancy, which happens to be located next to our Oak Glen Preserve office where I was working as a Naturalist, had a position open for an Administrative Assistant.  I love working for Wildlands, and I would jump at anything to have a career working for Wildlands.  I applied.  We had an interview, and I thought I nailed it.  A few days later, our Executive Director paid me a visit at the Oak Glen Preserve office.  He had told me that they chose to go with a different person for the position.  Immediately, I became very upset (internally) that I did not get the position.  Before I had a chance to say anything, Dave said they had a different position for me.  Beca
Read more

Coming Out

Growing up was not always easy for me.  Throughout my childhood, I experienced multiple periods of bullying by different individuals.  These periods of time imprinted emotional scars that continue to influence my actions today.  Overcoming these scars have proved to be one of the most challenging personal battles I have ever faced.  My experiences with bullying peaked in late middle school to early high school; a time when many are discovering more of who they are.  To avoid providing more fuel to the fire, I tucked away certain thoughts, feelings, actions, and more deep inside.  Parts of who I am turned into a secret, in which was kept hidden from everyone (except for one person).  Words can never express the amount of emotional stress that followed to keeping a secret like this.  I went through many episodes of confusion, anger, sadness, loneliness, and hopelessness.  These episodes lasted all the way to college.  For help, I turned to the internet.  I began meeting people who were
Read more