Looks like candy. Definitely doesn't taste like it.
Things being the way they are (i.e., I don’t own a digital camera), new negatives are kind of a big deal to me, particularly in the winter when it’s too cold to go out shooting. So just imagine my surprise when I discovered a roll of Kodak Kodachrome 64 hidden behind a stack of books in my room. I shot this roll over the summer in Namibia but sadly discovered upon my return that nobody develops Kodachrome anymore. Think about that for a second- nobody in the entire continental US develops a Kodak film (my film days are definitely numbered.) But then I was delighted to discover that there is, alas, ONE place that still develops the film: Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas. I forgive you, Kansas, for your backwards views on evolution. You can thank Dwayne’s.
A week and a half after shipping, I received the slides. Overall, not a great roll, but a couple of gems on there. Check it:
Shhh...giraffe in the picture.
This got me thinking about my negative books, and what gems might be hidden there. I’ve found that when I have a surplus of new negatives (like immediately after a big trip), I skip over a lots of quality pictures because I’m so excited about what I think are the real winners. So I started wading through the thousands of negatives I have and was so very pleasantly surprised at some of the images I found. Imagine this shot, just sitting quietly in a negative book in my closet:
They're little futbals!
And then there’s this one:
These are ready to hit icon status. Any day now.
So the lesson here? We’ve all got buried treasure. Get diggin’!
