Happy Valentine’s Day, (or VD, or MOSS [Members of the Opposite Sex Suck] day) everyone! The grass is probably just as green on this side of the fence, but the other side looks so much more lush — I really want to jump over.

I’ve been scanning some slides I shot back in the summer of 2002, that transitory period between high school and university where you generally have not a single long-term care in the world, and everything is going well considering you’ve just finished one of the larger chunks (temporally-speaking) of your academic career.

At this time, I’d recently been given a Canon A-1 by my grandmother as a birthday gift, and picked up a Canon Ft-b and some lenses to round out my kit. Photography was an amazing thing, I discovered, and I pursued it fairly heavily until school started again and it was time to get back to “real” work. At that point, things slowed down a bit but still continued, gradually grinding to a near-halt.

It was at the end of the summer that I had my first experience with slide film. I bought two rolls of Fujichrome Velvia as I joined Jason (a friend from junior high) at his cabin on Blindfold Lake in the Lake of the Woods. This was some AMAZING film. A little tough to work with (narrow exposure latitude and slow speed), but fine grain (ISO 50) and insane color saturation! Using this together with my classic, “manual-everything” equipment made completely of brass, steel and glass seemed to me to be the essence of photography.

I managed to produce some reasonably good photos, the best of which have been painstakingly scanned and added to the image gallery. (…look inside…)

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Now, despite all this, I’m feeling the urge to go digital after playing with a Digital Rebel much of last week. EOS 20D anyone?

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