The Film: In (Disconnected) Parts

Like I wrote here, I’d originally planned to write a single longish post covering all my thoughts on working with Tri-X over the last year. Change of plan. Instead, I’m going to try breaking this one up over several shorter posts appearing over the next week. Why? To be honest, I’m finding it hard to connect all the seemingly random thought chunks I have about film into a single cohesive thingy that doesn’t embarrass me. Secondly, I think shorter pieces are more Tumblr dashboard friendly.

You know what I mean. You’re grooving along, looking at all the nice pictures your pals are making and then you hit this big long toilet paper sheet of text. What do you do? Brain shift to read the text or move on to more visual goodness? How much time do you have to spend with me?

Not much I’d bet.

At least some of you read my rambling stuff even though it would be easier not to. You guys have been really patient and indulgent with me on this, and I thank you for it. But I want to try something different. If this works out, I think I may be able to make myself write more—which is what I really want and for my own reasons. Often it’s the knitting together of these different ideas that takes the most time, as my dear wife the novelist will tell you. She’d also probably say I’m wimping out right now and that I should just (wo)man up and bleed from my eyeballs like the rest of them. But dammit Jim, I’m a photographer not a writer. And that’s that.