64 Portraits on Ektachrome #18: Yassir Falih
Citizen of the world. Traveler. Deep conversationalist. A man with an interesting mind.
Ektachrome
Mistakes Were Made.
There was really only one photograph that I wanted to make when I was on vacation with my family this summer. As it turns out, I had misremembered what I thought I wanted to photograph, and what I wanted to photograph did not exist. So I didn’t get the shot.
What I did get was plenty of time to play around with everything else that happened around me, and part of that was shooting with a Holga and not really caring about all the knob-twisting and exposing and all that jazz that can occupy the mind while taking pictures. And speaking of occupies minds, I was apparently mentally on vacation, too…my Holga had gotten itself set to read the film numbers for a 16-exposure, 645 format setup, even though the camera still had its 6×6 mask in. So I was advancing the film according to 645 markings, and shooting with 6×6 equipment, which meant that everything overlaps. I don’t have individual images…I have a few long, uninterrupted strips of beachiness.
This is the kind of mistake that cannot be made on a digital camera. Actually, it can’t even be made on a decent film camera. Sure, there are double exposures, but this endless stretch of exposed film is the product of letting myself go a bit, shooting with a toy, and being okay that the result is quirky. Long live quirk.
Holga 120N; Ektachrome (cross processed), Pro160C, Portra 160NC (expired)
64 Portraits on Ektachrome #17: Mike Kelly
Code-switching is a phenomenon where someone can act differently depending on the context. Case in point. I knew Mike first as a Dean of Discipline with a short sense of humor for shenanigans and roughhousery. I also knew him as a laid-back aficionado of bad jokes, good music, and tasty beer. His cream of garlic soup finds disfavor only amongst die-hard readers of Twilight (or is it un-die-hard?). His birthday just passed, and he just completed his first Broad Street Run. Huzzah!
64 Portraits on Ektachrome: #16: Alex Starr
Brother-in-law. There was a time in his life when the coolest thing he had done was rolling up urine disposal bags for a space shuttle mission, which apparently is the kind of thing that rocket-scientists-in-training get to do.
64 Portraits on Ektachrome: #15: Helga Vutz
Everyone should have in life a few friends like Helga, make would make you smarter, funnier, more thoughtful, and more discerning in such areas as beer choice. Also, they would occasionally host throw-down sushi parties. Former co-worker, and member of the Hex-Pack.
64 Portraits On Ektachrome: #13: Amy Raquepau
My sister. She once told my brother and me that we were no picking on her enough. Despite never again letting her go wanting insofar as that is concerned, she has turned into an emotionally stable person who just keeps getting more impressive with each year.
64 Portraits on Ektachrome: #12: Kristen Starr
My wife, who keeps me laughing and thinking. She usually glares are me when a camera is between us, but she was able to hold it together for a few minutes for this. And I appreciate that.
64 Portraits on Ektachrome: #11: Elizabeth Dixon
Or Ely, as we call her. My sister-in-law-in-law. A fascinating member of a fascinating family.
“It’s like horse racing…it’s like perfume…it’s like fog.”
Ektachrome E100G
Two more from Hocking Hills. This road, if that’s the right term, divided our property from the field in the image below. I didn’t have the time to wander up around the bend.
Ektachrome E100G
And I’m trying to remember the name of the movie the title of this post comes from. Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn, John Travolta…She’s So Lovely or something like that.
Fog and Grass
Aside from having my second kid (more on that later), I’ve been catching up scanning film from the last year or so. I’ve got some more Ektachrome for you.
Ektachrome E100G