Roll 2

Roll 1 was technically the first roll done on my Minolta, but I knew the next roll was really the start to everything I've done to this point, and everything I will do. Claire (smiling in the first photo) still had all the other rolls that her sister Emma gave to me to start this journey. except for the roll that was used for roll 1. Needless to say, I was raring to go for another roll. We had breakfast that morning, I loaded another roll into my camera, took a picture of her and began my 1.5 hour walk home from her apartment. I rejected no ideas, because I knew every picture taken was a learning opportunity no matter what I took.

Film instantly made sense to me in a way digital photography never did. I understood what was physically going on in the camera. It instantly made me able to visualize images, and do things that you couldn't do with *just* the camera on your phone. When I went out for my second ever night walk by the Boston harbour, I had no other equipment besides my camera. Considering the low light, I knew that it would be impossible to get subjects in focus for my camera, unless they were meters in front of me and I could use the flash. However, I knew what that shakiness could look like, and, rejecting no ideas, I knew I had to see what I could get done. There is a ribbon'd photo of a shaky clocktower in between other nearby buildings, they form a huddled mass in the center of the frame. The colors of the night sky coming out green-ish and the tight shakiness of the lights, I was stunned when I saw that photo for the first time. It's easily one of my favorite ever photos, if not my favorite.