Intro to Film

This past June, my godmother gave me her old Nikon N2020 from the 1980’s that she hadn’t used in ages. She didn’t know I had been looking for a film camera to practice film photography during my summer home, so it was perfect timing. Picking up the weight and attaching the lens made my fingers tingle and my imagination start to bubble with all of the possible shots I could take. Then, of course, came the memory of the last time I shot a film camera in college during a photography class…that did not have a successful outcome.

Admittedly, when I’ve been faced with internal conflict in this way in the past I have quit. Or, worse, I have “tried” to succeed at the task while actually playing a very convincing dance of camouflaged self-sabotage. This time, I wanted to put in genuine effort. It was important to me to accept inevitable failure since it is a whole new side of photography, but the true task would be to push through and work with the bad.

I’m still working within the “bad”. Although I did get to practice a lot and learn a lot, there are still rolls that come back with 2 usable photographs out of 30 exposures. But that is what is supposed to happen! And you know what? Within the process, there are many, MANY, gems.

Here are the ones that when I opened them after development they gave me goosebumps. <3