I’m trying to stay calm and not panic. Truly, I am. But there’s still very little snow up here…in Alaska. It’s brutally cold and I’ve smiled at the northern lights and shivered under the moon and stars, but it’s been at least a month since I’ve sighed at the beauty of falling flakes. I’ve worn my special snowflake earrings and danced what certainly must be a special winter jig, the kids have kissed their skis and worn their pajamas backwards to bed, and yet the sky still refuses to grace us with its fleecy blanket of snow-bearing clouds. Instead, the sun seems determined to turn what snow is on the ground into a smooth sheet of compacted ice and to effectively blind us whenever we drive somewhere. I always knew the sun was a sadistic bitch.
Anyways, I’ll stop complaining now. I got a small batch of scans back from FIND a couple of weeks ago and it’s safe to say that I love the consumer stock of Fuji Superia 400. One roll was shot regularly at box speed, the other I got “creative” with and pretty much flopped. I combined both intentional camera movement on some images AND film soup and let’s just say the results were a bit lackluster. I always seem to forget that I need to overexpose more when I intend to soup a roll. Oh well, I needed to do something to shake up my shooting practice. These were all shot at the end of autumn and the normal images were with my Nikon F100 while my…abnormal images where shot on my Leica M6 that I haven’t busted out in over a year or so. I should probably shoot with it more rather than just ogling its beauty.
Sometimes, I just need a soft image. I find them so dreamy.
LOOK! A tiny bit of snow!
Our Tuesday after school froyo tradition stays strong throughout the year.
The day after Halloween can be just as scary as Halloween itself!
But the scariest thing of all is teaching your new teenager how to drive a manual.
Definitely my favorite image from this roll.
