Agitating Chemicals.
A few friends of mine here in Korea have an excellent film hobby, and occasionally they allow me to play along with them. Taken with an old metal clunk of camera, an old Pentax belonging to a friend, I walked around and shot in my neighborhood. It’s fun to look at the world through the lens of a film camera. Select, focus, adjust meter, focus and refocus, click.
I developed the film, not the photos, mind you, in my chemistry buddy’s makeshift photography development studio in his bathroom. Mix chemicals, agitate solution. Timing is important, select songs with appropriate time, agitate and shake, rest, shake, rest, mix new chemicals, shake, wash, shake. Interesting stuff.
It’s nice to have friends with interesting hobbies to learn from.
Here are a few of my pictures. I’ve got another roll we’ll develop later this week, and if any are good I’ll put them up.
Textures on my school campus, Yeoju, South Korea.
Mr. Choi, with the tie on the left, is one of my favorite teachers here. He is great. To the right is the Chinese characters and history teacher. Yeoju Girls' High School, South Korea.
This street is greatly responsible for the absolute lack of silence in my apartment. Thanks, traffic. Can't wait to leave you. Yeoju, South Korea.
The windshield shop down the block from my apartment. Here is where a pack of dogs continually give me low, terrifying guttural warnings when I pass. Yeoju, South Korea..
Carved singing guy in the park near my apartment. Yeoju, South Korea.
Honeybee fluttering near the honeysuckle tree, Yeoju, South Korea.
Pavilion on top of the hill near my apartment. To one side is the South Han River, to the opposite side is the cityscape buried in mountains. Yeoju, South Korea.
