bayhorse, id (2023) (Patreon)

So back when I did my self-portrait project, I did actually try to take beautiful ghost town photos without me in them. I just did all of those on film, on this most recently-developed roll of Ektar, and so I never got to share them until now. 

This shot is from Bayhorse, ID, a ghost town that has unfortunately decayed to a state where it wasn't as much fun to shoot as some of the others I'd visited. This stamp mill, built in 1882, was one of the best-preserved structures. 

The stamp mill in my self-portrait project. 

I rarely carry two cameras, but I'm glad I did while I shot this project. If I'd shot photos of just the structures on digital, I would have ignored them as I was busy editing the self-portraits for the book, and God knows it would have been extremely expensive and impractical to shoot self-portraits on film, lol. I do love that I took two shots though, so you can see how dramatic the difference in color replication is between digital and film. Granted, my digital shot is heavily color graded, but still, the difference is huge.