I’ve been organizing negative sleeves the last few days and pulling out a few frames here and there to make fresh scans of images I long ago disregarded or dismissed. Sometimes this can be one of the many powerful aspects of working with film. With a digital camera there is a tendency to delete the images we don’t initially have a fondness for. Either that or we tend to move the images to some external hard drive which in turn gets shoved in a drawer and eventually becomes incompatible with whatever operating system is current.
In other words, the images are quickly forgotten.
With film, there is more of an incentive to revisit your old work every once in a while. Sometimes there will be a frame you didn’t think much about when you first developed the negative but might speak to you years later. In the case of this image, I don’t think I ever even scanned this particular frame. There were a few other images on the roll that I gravitated toward and this frame was set aside in my mind. Now here we are almost seven years later and I’m giving it a fresh scan and posting it here on my blog.