so i recently saw this on the internet and really liked it.
i've been on kind of a cooking streak lately where i am just cooking up a storm every chance i get.
looking at this photo of something as simple as the breakfast table brought up a lot of pleasant feelings. i like how the colors are a little faded, it almost looks like film. i like how there aren't any people in this photo but it still looks occupied by a presence. obviously you can see that people have been here and left the remnants of what looked like a really fun meal with the family. i think what just really gets me about this photo is that it represents what food and mealtime is supposed to mean in society: the family gathering around together and enjoying a fresh, home-cooked, delicious meal and this photo captures that without even having people in it. i also like how all of the elements in this photo are spaced out. it gives a sort of off-centered, disheveled look. i think it would be really cool to do this with film, but maybe color film since i would be shooting food. i don't want the black and white to make the food look unappetizing. i'll have to think about different ways to portray all of these feelings without having people in the photo but also without coming from this angle each time.

So with all this talk about film, and me not having any to do in the dark room :( It got me thinking about what I would like to shoot. We've all seen these typical family portrait from maybe the 1920's where some of the people aren't smiling and you kind of just wonder what was going on both in their heads and I'm their lives by the look on their faces. This type of photography always reminds me of film because it is so old timey feeling and people these days don't take family portraits quite like this. If I have the time and resources I think it would be really cool to re-create se photos like these with families. Shooting in film and setting it up to have that 1920's feeling but the people are all in their modern day clothes, etc. just a thought.

this was really the only successful picture from my holga roll that i took last week. they were all really fuzzy and i dont know why. i really don't like not being able to see what im shooting (aka film) but i need some in my project so im going to take some more this weekend.