day
I took the day off today. Well, I slept in and didn't go to my internship. I did drive around Rochester and took pictures...Actually, I found what could have been great shots, but I was afraid to get out of my car and make the pictures. Last year I would have hopped out of the car and walked past the druggies, taken the shot I stopped for and a few more for the road and nonchalantly walked to my car and driven off. I dunno whether I was naive or brave, but whatever it is I didn't have it today :-\ I ended up in Pittsford...I figured that I should branch out from taking shots of dilapitated old things and go upscale for contrast. Instead I discovered a part of Pittsford I didn't know existed - just an old section along the canal? river? of organic resteraunts and the like....still looked "Pittsford expensive", but had a oldtowne charm to it. I had the school's digital and hadn't brought my film so after about 1/2 hour i was out of shots b/c my stupid memory card was full. That always happens. So I got mad enough to spend $20 on a new 1gig. Don't ask me why I waited so long to get one - I have no excuse, but I am excited to go out again and shoot with both cameras, gobs of film and no fear of running out of...whatever before my imagination is exhausted. I developed a roll of film just last week that I took back when we had than mini ice storm thingy and the negs look good :-D I'm really excited. I dont know what it is about film, but I love the mystery of it all. I feel so much more connected with my work - you can't check to make sure you got the perfect shot before you leave the site, you have to trust that you do and that makes it exciting :) Or maybe its exciting because it's not quite safe. Sooooooooooo, if anyone's looking for some dangerous excitement, call me! Especially if you look like a thug! I wanna go shoot downtown and im not scary-looking enough. ...maybe i need a scary-looking friend...