A World on Film
Image Description: A color film photograph taken with my Nikon F3 using Kodak CineStill 400D film. A landscape at mid-range unfolds. In the foreground are mossy rills, fallen leaves, and twigs littering the ground leading in mid-frame to a marshy area with bright and dark green moss at the bottom of tree trunks jutting up from the marsh. The water around the trees is the overflow of a pond, and the sky and trees are reflected in the water. Beyond this green water plants, grasses grow. Beyond them lies the pond and, at the top of the frame, the woods beyond the pond's bank. The sun is setting, coming from the right of the frame, bright on the tree trunks that cast shadows on the grown. There is an otherworldly quality to the image, like the tree sprites are just waiting for you to look away.
Image Description: A color film photograph taken with my Nikon F3 using Kodak Ektar 100 film. A jumble of moss green cedar needles are photographed at close range. They are interlaced with rusty orange fallen pine needles to the right of the frame. On the left of the frame you see the brown stems from which many of the cedar needles grow. But the center of the frame is all a lattice of green hued needles, some darker, some brighter, and blurring into the distance. It makes me think of walking into the wardrobe in Narnia. Remember that? (16 Nov 2025)
Image Description: A color film photograph taken with my Nikon F3 using Kodak Cinestill 400D film. This is the surface of a pond showing the mirrored image of skeletal trees that appear upside-down in a mirrored blue sky. Branches or surface detritus are out of focus and seem to frame the watery image so that the effect is like peering through a pinhole, perhaps. It's disorienting but also like a beautiful, confusing dream. (11 Nov 2025)
Image Description: A black and white film photograph taken with my Nikon F3 using Ilford HP5 plus b&w film. This is a winter scene of a partially frozen pond surrounded by skeletal hardwood trees. You see a lush drapery of evergreens behind them, through which a feeble winter sun is peeping shyly. Most of the frame, the bottom two-thirds, is taken up by the pond's surface. From the left of the frame you see the snow-covered bank of the pond from which extends the frozen surface to about mid-point. It is a grayish white with a few dark spots where detritus has frozen in the ice or a partially submerged stick pokes through. The right half of the frame has no ice on the pond and it is a perfectly still mirror showing the gray sky and the reflections of the skeletal trees. Around the pond the trees stand like silent witnesses to the cold. Or maybe, they're just asleep. (7 Nov 2025)
Image Description: A color film photograph taken with my Nikon F3 using Kodak Ektar 100 film. The entire frame is filled with unruly clusters of small creamy white florets growing in what seems like an impenetrable disorder of vine-like thicket with small deep green leaves. There is a general lack of focus in the image, only some florets here and there gaining any true detail. One could become lost and maybe happily so. (6 Nov 2025)
Image Description: A color film photograph taken with my Nikon F3 using Kodak Cinestill 400D film. The surface of a pond reflects sunlight, sky, and spindly trees with autumn leaves. The sky is bright blue, fading into the sunlight towards the top of the frame. Appearing upright in the image are the watery reflections a few nearly bare saplings or perhaps branches that extend from the bank of the pond behind the photographer. Their small orange leaves are bright with sunshine and seem to hang in the air like confetti frozen in time. Reflections of larger trees on the other banks of the pond encroach from the left and right of the frame. The bottom of the frame is filled with pale orange pine needles that have collected on the surface of the pond, forming a mat that looks almost like a woven carpet. At the left of the frame, a single nearly white branch reaches down into the pond's surface to break the spell. (5 Nov 2025)