My little rebellion.

I am not a photographer. I know a lot of photographers, I've worked with a lot of photographers, I'm even related to a couple of photographers - but I'm definitely not a photographer.
So this blog isn't about photography, because that would be kind of silly. This is a blog celebrating film.

I love shooting film. I have very little idea what I'm doing with it, but I love it. It's special. Light goes into the box, and a picture comes out. No batteries required. Amazing.

Film is a dying medium. It's expensive, it's unforgiving, it's technical, it's chemical - and it's simple.

And when done right, it's beautiful.


So this is my little rebellion against an age where catalogs are full of low-quality jpegs, and magazine covers are more clone stamp than skin, and people everywhere look at me funny when I open the back of my camera and pull film out, instead of staring at it, flipping through menus.

This is for the adorable couple at Card Photo down on O'Farrell who've been developing my (mostly wasted) film for six years, and every other mom-n-pop one hour photo place that's had to sacrifice since the Digital Revolution.

And mostly it's dedicated to my dad, who is a real photographer.


(Of course the irony is that in order to put my film photos on this blog, I have to scan them and edit them in Photoshop. You can trust that cropping and rotating will be the extent of my editing though - part of my goal is to re-learn the art of planning a photograph without thinking, "I'll just shop it later.")