2020-07-22 - pictures

I'd be lying if I said my photography was a casualty of the lockdown, as it's been languishing for a long time, now. Hobbies don't last forever. That said, I have a few containers of film in the fridge and some lovely old cameras I need to find a way to incorporate back into my life, even if my wandering range is diminished.

My phone's lovely - it gives a great combination of certainty /and/ convenience, but everything's a trade-off of course. I lose a feeling of being more involved in making an image - this isn't unique to a phone, though. Different cameras help you make different images, and they also help you to feel differently about how you made that image:

Little can top the feeling of winding my Leica M6 - don't knock it until you've tried it - it really is one of those things that feels "just right".

Looking through the top-down viewer of Twin-Lens Reflex camera is a peculiar sensation that brings its own feeling of focus on the image you're making. The fact that you're bending over and facing downwards also changes things - people don't feel you're staring at them, for instance.

Focussing a rangefinder lets you see what's /around/ the image.

Holding some (developed) medium format slide film up to the light feels magical.

and so on.

What I'm phenomenally bad at, surprisingly, is printing some of those images and putting them on the wall. I have little in the way of recent work around the house, beyond a few I did years ago, often for exhibitions I did with friends. An excellent lockdown activity would be to find some new images, though I'm strugging to find a Round Tuit. Soon!

Now playing:

Raymond Richards - The Lost Art Of Wandering