npr ii (2023) (Patreon)

More film! This time, a trip to the Northwest Pacific Railway (Snoqualmie museum) back in... I think March? This was when I did the Peugeot trip. This is the third shot I've done of this exact train on three different cameras, lol. 

I need to do more film in general, but this roll feels like a cautionary tale. It got a little mangled from scratches (unknown why) and it also got some x-ray damage at the airport, which is part of why I try to avoid travelling too much with film, which of course makes it harder to shoot. It also wasn't my best roll? A few shots are just boring, some are exposed imperfectly, and I even shook a couple, which is remarkably sloppy of me. 

I have to actively avoid getting mad at myself in these situations; film isn't cheap and I feel terrible to waste money and film stock on shitty photos. It's not so bad here because it's film that they still make (and honestly I'm not a huge fan of this stock? I'd rather shoot something more contrast-y like Tri-X for b/w) but I have those rolls of super rare, super discontinued Eighties films sitting in the fridge that I'm just sweating thinking about shooting, lol. 

Hopefully it's worth it for the good ones; I will say, I do love this shot I've posted today and that makes me feel a lot better. You can view everything on the roll I bothered to edit here on Flickr, and you can download a compressed folder with all the images here!