I ran across the receipt for my first SLR today, which I purchased just over 10 years ago, so I decided to pull out some 10 year old images to see what I was up to back then. This one is from the annual balloon festival, which used to take place right down the road from home, and which promptly ended it's annual run immediately after my first day in attendance. It's not a great shot by any measure but it's one of the only ones I have digitized and accessible from that event right now.

The image was shot on Kodak Elite Chrome 400, one of my first experiments with slide film, and one that didn't prove too successful. I ended up hating this film due to it's grain and my film scanners annoying ability to accentuate every single speck of it. I actually still have several rolls of this film from the original brick tucked away somewhere. I'm sure it's of no use so I don't really know why I still have it. I also don't understand why I didn't wait for a little separation between these two balloons, it would have made this image a lot stronger. I must have been shooting at the end of a roll because the next series shows all the balloons a good ways downwind. If I were shooting digital then, I would have kept on shooting and probably would have gotten THE shot a few seconds after this one.

I ran across the receipt for my first SLR today, which I purchased just over 10 years ago, so I decided to pull out some 10 year old images to see what I was up to back then. This one is from the annual balloon festival, which used to take place right down the road from home, and which promptly ended it's annual run immediately after my first day in attendance. It's not a great shot by any measure but it's one of the only ones I have digitized and accessible from that event right now.

The image was shot on Kodak Elite Chrome 400, one of my first experiments with slide film, and one that didn't prove too successful. I ended up hating this film due to it's grain and my film scanners annoying ability to accentuate every single speck of it. I actually still have several rolls of this film from the original brick tucked away somewhere. I'm sure it's of no use so I don't really know why I still have it. I also don't understand why I didn't wait for a little separation between these two balloons, it would have made this image a lot stronger. I must have been shooting at the end of a roll because the next series shows all the balloons a good ways downwind. If I were shooting digital then, I would have kept on shooting and probably would have gotten THE shot a few seconds after this one.