Latent

First outing with the new (old) camera. East End Park; a walk through the woods. First cool front of the season made it enjoyable, rather than merely tolerable. It’s funny how simply carrying a camera changes your perspective. I’m looking at light and potential compositions. Eyes drawn to the little pops of color amidst the weathered trees. Laughter in dappled sunlight, captured on 35mm. I’m still learning, so I left it in shutter-priority. The light meter is roughly fifty years old and probably wildly inaccurate. I’m interested to see how this roll develops. Expensive and outdated, I know, but film feels closer to life. The grain and the imperfection reflect the melancholy of lived experience. The tangible nature of it all. The fragility of light and cellulose.