Sat Dec 11, 2010 7:15 pm The first photo uploaded was from 25 October 2010. Since then, for over a month I have taken a photograph on film every single day, only using Rangefinder Cameras, and have scanned and uploaded on for each day.
The project has sometimes been tough to keep to: I often work long hours as a barrister - some recent days the light is hardly there in London and goes altogether in the middle of the afternoon, there are days I don't want to take a camera, and days that I find it hard to find even a minute to take a photo. Also, when sometimes the only time to photograph is on the way to work, finding something you haven't already photographed can be hard.
Then there is the film. Sometimes I have the wrong film in the camera. A couple of films have been ruined in developing, but I have still had to upload a photo. And the scanning to take up many hours.
But despite this I'm glad to be doing the project, and I have continued to take a film photo every day since. Most times I look forward to stealing a few minutes, or if lucky an hour, just to do photography every day. I get excited every time I look at a new film I have developed, and remember what I was doing 2 weeks earlier. I enjoy using my rangefinders and experimenting with different lenses. I benefit from the discipline of logging which camera, lens and film I shoot with every day, so I can properly review the results later.
Most of all I am grateful I can think about, and do, photography every single day without having to be doing a specific project or travelling.
Please spare a moment to have a look at my daily blog. It's here:
http://rangefinderchronicles.blogspot.com/
Although I have about 2,500 visitors so far, only a few have become "followers". It would be great to have a few more. All you do is scroll down on the main screen and click follow. It costs you nothing and there is no spam.
Thanks for looking
Nick
Thursday 25 November 2010
(Taken with Leica M6TTL Zeiss 35mm Biogon f2 and Kodak Ektar film)