I'd really like to have the motivation to be out making photos. January's doldrums are always a challenge, but this year feels a little different.
While I know it's not, to me, it feels much colder this winter. I can bundle up all I want, but I just don't tolerate the cold as I once did, so that's not helping matters.
...and not tolerating the cold well also means that I'm not getting around as much, so the day-to-day scenery is a little too familiar.
I was able to push through today a little (Kodak Gold in the Canon), but ended up exposing a half-dozen frames on all-too-familiar and uninspired scenes. I will finish the roll tomorrow after work and hope to find a few embers.
In the meantime, it's all re-scans and personal archives in the places I'm sharing.
On The Other Hand...
where shutters are still and film chemistry unshaken, I am p o s i t i v e l y v i b r a t i n g this week because I have been filling out the intake paper work for surgery! I was referred late in the Fall and after about eight weeks, they contacted me on Wednesday to begin signing forms and releases and populating their systems.
I am very very very excited and have been wanting this for decades and it's getting so close.
January 22, 2026