These are just snap shots
He is so cute. He was getting over the baby acne he had for a long time. He was probably 3 months here.
Have I ever mentioned my love for photography? In college I took photo 1010. I was in the processing lab for hours. In the pitch black dark rooms, processing film. In the developing room getting the perfect shades of dark and light. Out taking pictures of everything. With different exposures and with different methods. I love black and white photography. jj and I are considering putting a photo developing lab in the basement, we are measuring the usefulness of it against a basement bathroom. Maybe it could be a shower/developing lab. That could be cool. I will post some of that photography later. It looks like student work, but I really like it. I like the process of making something completely by myself.
That is why I changed from all of my other majors in college to art. I love creating and I do a lot better at that then at tests and memorizing facts. I can stay up all night working on a project. Staying up to memorize accounting wasn’t worth it to me, I flunked it once. I just decided not to take the final. Staying up all night to perfect a book cover was completely worth it. I love what I do. However, I stay up all night these days to clean up throw up and love a little one. Still very worth it.
We started feeding him rice cereal around 4 months, but only rarely. We did not buy a high chair for a long time. We fed him in his swing.
The other day I found a roll of film and took it in to get processed. I did not know what it would be of as I could not remember ever seeing it before. It is from right after we moved into this house before we had the digital camera, which I love. But not in the same way. Digital is instant and you don’t have to worry about mistakes. There is something comforting about film. The pictures are of Gentry as a baby and of Tazia, my sister, going to some dance in her Titanic replica dress. She is cute.
These pictures are nothing I am terribly proud of. They were just a pleasant surprise to find.
I am mesmerized by the baby in the top picture.
March 5th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Those pictures of Gentry are so cute. I think finding an undeveloped role of film is one of the most exciting discoveries a person can make, because you know it will have photos of significant things to you, but you have no idea what they will be.
A few years ago, I was exploring Grandpa Bill’s yard and found an undeveloped role of film in one of his abandoned cars. I got it developed, and it was pictures of Bill and Kenn from the late 70’s or early 80’s, handling the sheep and goats and such. They were wearing Indiana Jones hats and leather coats. The film had been sitting in his car for 30 years undeveloped!