35mm to Digital

Christmas day 1997 my parents gifted me a Fujifilm 35mm point-and-shoot camera. Years later I broke my dad’s 1978 Nikon EM out of the closet and began taking it with me almost everywhere I went. It’s a never ending endeavor to capture the world they way I see it.

When shooting with film you don’t immediately get to edit, filter, crop and retake your photo, you have to wait and see and I’ve found a simplistic beauty in that.

After finishing my degree in Journalism at Ole Miss my parents gifted me my first digital camera, an Olympus PEN I had seen advertised on TV for its ability to shoot quality photos and video.

With the advent of high quality cell phone cameras and adaptation of filters used natively on cameras I became less and less enthusiastic about digital photography. It seemed as though anyone with a phone could get great images without thinking about it while I would spend so much time in order to try to get a “perfect shot”. I’ve continued my pursuit of digital photography with a different lens than “perfection” since.