Life In Grain

Digital cameras are nice. You can spend hours taking photos, delete 99% of them and end up with a perfect shot. You spend hundreds and thousands of dollars for this, and it is convenient, and its fun. Digital photography is nice. But what is the point of taking a photo that isn't good enough? Whats the point of taking 89452945 shots, only to send them back to the digital netherworld in the push of a button? Recently I've been struck by this over and over. Digital photography seems so vapid. Maybe this is the start of my gradual decline into insanity, where I throw away my computer and start befriending kettles and shit.





I hate to say this, but I've become unhappy with Fred. Before you reach into the monitor to slap me across the face with a hammer, this isn't a permanent break up. It's more of a lets-see-other-people-to-reignite-the-spark-in-our-relationship kinda break. This is partly the reason why I haven't been updating my Flickr recently. Sure, I've been taking 365 photos, but they all seem so mediocre. I don't know what it is, but I can't apply what I do with film with digital. Everything I've been shooting lately has seemed so flat. Before this turns into a 40 page whining sesh, I'll just skip to the other end of the spectrum - why film photography is amazing.





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It just is. Nothing else compares to the weight of a film camera nestled in your hand. Nothing else compares to the grain, the colours. Oh my god, the colours. Everything is so much more vibrant. If only life was like film photography.

I just needed to get that off my chest. Also, this blog needs a major, major, major revamp. Which will be coming soon, I promise.

Photos from top to bottom: records, Untitled, Untitled, and Untitled.