Before there was Fuji Pro 400H

There was Fuji 400NPH. It's discontinued, but this roll was cheap as free, so I loaded it into my folder and shot it off. I noticed something interesting; where my photos from bigger cameras are carefully considered 'high concept art,' if you will (and if you won't, I'll understand), because carrying one of those cameras is a decision in itself, and the time and money cost means each shot is a composition and a 'photograph,' images from the folder are more often images of my life, rather than images I have found and chosen deliberately to capture. There are no watermarks on this set; if stupid stuff like watermarking is slowing my down and preventing me from posting, it's better to post without it.

They are snapshots, most of them, and they are as close to 'Lomography' as I get. 'Lomo' is not an art movement, kids; it's a company that made Russian camera equipment. I never aim for lo-fi, but sometimes hit it and accept that. My stance is that a cheap lo-fi camera with all its quirks will no more produce art than a very expensive well-made camera will produce 'better' photos. Cameras help, they're fun and they're amazing, but it's never really the camera, in spite of what everyone's marketing department would have you believe. And there are plenty of good uses for film that are antithetical to hi-fi and look better than digital ever has.

But you came here for pictures.

Backyard: I don't live here anymore.

Downpour and an ice machine around Barracks Rd. and 29.

Construction on the Downtown Pedestrian Mall.

My friend is a child (at heart?) which entitles her to use of this facility.

And then there was this adventure, where we met all these people.

And formed a huge group (posse?). Some of them we already knew; others were strangers of varying degrees of removal.