my favorite photo

a quarry in wisconsin. 120 film.

well there it is, my first photo (below) and my favorite (above)... end of blog.

i guess the question is why is this my favorite? the most real answer i can think of is the one that sounds the lamest: almost every part resonates inside me. it plays all my chords. and beyond that, on the "technical" side... it came out exactly the way i saw/felt it, which i think is usually the aim of every photographer from the pro to the tourist.

quite honestly the more digital photos i take the more i long for film. the chemical reaction. and i hardly ever print out digital shots because the idea is ridiculous in my mind. the medium is light and numbers. a print out is a thin layer of ink translated from that code onto paper. and as soon as that happens it is the same as a print of a painting. film is chemical, even in the print.

this photo was also important because it was film. when i started getting into photography, it was with a digital camera. But as a painter i couldn't stand how instantly gratifying or how non touchable it really was. again, that chemical reaction. so i dove back into film cameras in order to get the "feel". i bought every old camera i could find from brownies to broken polaroids, which i would convert to working order (brownies shooting outdated 160 film could be bent and pried to fit a 120 spool if careful enough) just to see what sensibility each little box would reveal.