Back To The Future

The image above was created today using, my iPhone and edited on my phone using Snapseed.

I find this interesting; technology has moved on since I first purchased The Canon EOS 500N. I have a lot of print photographs. In fact, It took amazing photographs, I remember taking to South Africa in 2005.

I do remember switching to Digital when I purchased an amazing little Camera from Pentax, this also created amazing 6 mega pixel images.

The image above was inspired today because I put my Kodak Portra 400 in to be processed. Whilst waiting for my Cappuccino, I saw my two Cameras side by side and I felt the story I am crafting now.

Film and Digital side by side, they both do the same thing and yet function differently in terms of how I get to the end point - holding a photograph in my hand.

I shot a roll of Film yesterday and the results to me are stunning. The images below are all from the scanned 35mm negative.

I have gone back in time to relearn this craft.

Shooting on film has confronted me.

It means I have to care more about each frame.

Each frame represents the possibility of something magical. 36 exposures and I can not afford to trash or dump a single frame.

This level of caring and creating has reminded me of what it truly means to create.

When Michelangelo created The David, he knew he had to be careful with his first blow against the Marble because it could have shattered the block. The block was already 40 plus years old, lying in a court yard long before he got to work on it; look at what he created, all because he loved and cared enough.

These images of The David where created using my Fuji Cameras. I plan to go back to The V & A and created images on 35mm Film, why?

Because I care enough.

So, today’s post is all about love, creativity and caring enough to do the work as it should be done.

Thank you for reading

“When Love & Skill work together, expect a masterpiece”. John Ruskin