25 August 10

Des Reliques

My father was an avid photographer. His favorite thing to do during camping trips in Spain was to fetch out his Minolta FX with multiple lenses and take close-ups of wildflowers. His attempts at landscapes were less successful and of wildlife even less so, but this didn’t alter the fact that during my adolescence the fridge was always full of beer—and film.

Dad died in 1999. Film was still in the fridge, now on the Northern California coast. We brought it back with us to Davis because you can’t waste film.

I just checked the dairy section of the fridge. It contains two rolls of Kodak Gold 400 (undoubtedly for my mother, who still shoots in film/ it will be on its way to her shortly), one roll of Kodachrome 64, and one roll of Kodachrome 25.

We’d better shoot this final roll of 25 because after December, there won’t be anyone left who will develop it professionally. I don’t know what we’ll shoot. Probably a lot of morning glory, which is improbably in flower and which my Dad took in spades.

Posted by at 07:14 PM in Design Arts | Link |
  1. (o)


    dale    25. August 2010, 20:41    Link
  2. I should check the back of our fridge too! Is it just the Kodachrome 25 that won’t be developed any more?


    marja-leena    27. August 2010, 09:12    Link

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