I may be too old to claim membership in the last generation. On a personal note, that darkroom rescued a dying relationship between a teenage boy and his father. The whole idea of photography is ripe with meaning for me. Every picture I take is a tribute and a fond remembrance of the man.
I haven’t been successful yet but I keep writing about it because I know one of these days I am going to get it right.
I have a cousin http://www.johnsteelephoto.com/ who still uses actual film to create masterpieces. The old school photography techniques are like vinyl albums. People love them for the added dimension, the human hand, that goes so deep in the process. I love digital and would never want to give it up but I could go back into that homemade darkroom be a happy old man, dropping cigarette ash into the fixer tray and channeling Ansel Adams
🙂 And I have found the digital allows me to channel my creative energies in a meaningful way… i say that with that unshakable guilt that comes from embracing this new fangle technology.
Yeah I can relate to the “unshakable guilt” in that embrace. I refuse to become a fossil but the edge of my memories is still sharp enough to sometimes cut to the bone and that is when I know something good is happening…when the old meets the new and generates a spark of true creative light. Alright that all sound too “new agey” but I think you will know what I mean.
Poetry on the run 
nice catch of tones and grains.
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Thanks, I love to use B&W. It is the way I learned to use a camera back in the days of film and homemade darkrooms.
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ah…those homemade darkrooms..grew up with one of those. the last generation of that.
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I may be too old to claim membership in the last generation. On a personal note, that darkroom rescued a dying relationship between a teenage boy and his father. The whole idea of photography is ripe with meaning for me. Every picture I take is a tribute and a fond remembrance of the man.
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maybe i’m trying to convince myself I may be too old to claim such. 😉 and there will always be those who keep the old school going…
don’t know if you have, but that photographic relationship with your father would be a wonderful meditation in poetic memoir form
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I haven’t been successful yet but I keep writing about it because I know one of these days I am going to get it right.
I have a cousin http://www.johnsteelephoto.com/ who still uses actual film to create masterpieces. The old school photography techniques are like vinyl albums. People love them for the added dimension, the human hand, that goes so deep in the process. I love digital and would never want to give it up but I could go back into that homemade darkroom be a happy old man, dropping cigarette ash into the fixer tray and channeling Ansel Adams
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🙂 And I have found the digital allows me to channel my creative energies in a meaningful way… i say that with that unshakable guilt that comes from embracing this new fangle technology.
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Yeah I can relate to the “unshakable guilt” in that embrace. I refuse to become a fossil but the edge of my memories is still sharp enough to sometimes cut to the bone and that is when I know something good is happening…when the old meets the new and generates a spark of true creative light. Alright that all sound too “new agey” but I think you will know what I mean.
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It’s Mundane Monday!!!
https://alongtheinterstice.wordpress.com/2017/10/23/sprinkler
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