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You know, those rolls of film that sits around on a night stand for weeks, doing nothing more than collecting dust. Your mind slips and you forget what's on them, where they were taken, or even who was photographed on the roll.

This here is a prime example of one of those rolls. I figured I'd go ahead and finish the roll up and actually develop it. You know, before more dust got ahold of it or it got lost or grew legs and walked away. I believe this photograph was taken in November of last year? I can't even really tell you.

This girl right here? Sam? Yeah, she's the best. I love her and her squinting smile.

I'm on a work schedule where I get one day off a month and I plan on using that one day to shoot atleast one roll of film this summer. I think I can make that happen, right?

LISTENING TO: Gorilla Zoe (feat. Rick Ross) - What It Is

..a shoot months and months ago. Taryn and I shot almost a full roll of film this day. All with the same thing in mind: A trip to the grocery store! How fun. Right?

I really can't wait to start shooting more this summer. The photograph here was taken in either October or November of last year so the weather was a bit drab. Hopefully this summer holds on for a long time and the nights are warm.

I used to love black and white for the simple fact of not having to color correct due to lighting conditions or expired film. It was just so simple, black and white film is suppose to be black and white, so that's it. Two colors.

Providing these next couple months treat me right I hope to shoot atleast one roll of color film a week. I don't know what it is, but I'm just on this real big color film kick right now. I want the print to look just as it did when I took. Just as I saw life for that 1/60th of a second. Capture that moment in all the color possible.

Until then, here's Taryn with bags full of poptarts and bread.

LISTENING TO: Atmosphere - The Loser Wins

A good couple months it actually. I guess that's what happens when you work a lot and spend weeks away from a computer at a time.

I've been shooting, not as much as I would like to, but still shooting film none the less.

This shot here was actually done about, a week and a half ago right before we moved. This is the last photograph to be taken in our old apartment known as The 201b. I must say, those walls have seen some good times, bad times, laughter, theft, guns, tears, piss, puke, drama, fights, blood, bb guns, sketchy folk, and anything else that comes with having a twenty-four year old and a twenty-one year old as your tenant that have been best friends for years.

It was a good year and a half there, but I'm glad it's over with. Time for a new leaf, so to speak. Now onto our next apartment. This time, we'll clean a little more, won't party as much, and I think we're trying our hand at being 'grown-ups' or something. I know I like where I'm at right now.

This is Sam, among all the filth that was The 201b.

LISTENING TO: Sage Francis - Makeshift Patriot

I wanted to get a bunch of people together (not really on the same day or anything) but just in general, and have them all doing normal things. Walking a dog, taking out the trash, and even grocery shopping. Well, I'm real bad at getting people together so I figured, lets just get one of the shots I wanted.

Taryn came over and I didn't really know what to shoot, then she says "What was that grocery bag idea you had?" Completely forgot! I'm glad she remembers things better than I do.

Probably the best part of the whole shot here is that we had to go to the liquor store that's up my street for paper bags. Then what do we fill them with? Poptarts (we had five mostly full boxes in the cabinet, all cherry and strawberry), Ramen noodles, and bread? Yeah, that sounds about right.

LISTENING TO: Nas - Getting Married

I just love it. The checking to make sure your settings are correct. The double checking to make sure your settings are correct. Forgetting to advance the film for the next shot. The checking your settings again. The wait on your film as it's being developed. The worry as to if your settings were actually correct. Is the shot in focus? Scanning the negatives and seeing everything so large when it came from something so small. The little grain you see when the original photo is scanned.

I love it all. The good and the bad. I was sick of my images just baaarely being out of focus, so this day out with Kelly, I lugged out the big tripod. I was bound and determined to get ATLEAST one shot in focus and clear. I even went as far as to break out the shutter release cable to make sure I wasn't going to move the tripod. Gotta love it when photographs aren't fuzzy.

LISTENING TO: Sage Francis - Sea Lions