One of the things I love about photography is that I’m never done learning. It’s not even halfway through the year, and already I’ve experimented with a bevy of new elements: double exposures (more to come on that), printing at home for the first time, video, using more expired film, and macro photography.
This set is a combined experiment on those last two bits. I’ve been doing some nature walks with plant-minded friends to capture closeup shots of moss, lichen, and mushrooms (see here and here for more), and recently brought along a roll of expired Kodak Max 400 (expired 2008) to see what would happen.
Expired color film tends to run a bit dark, and macro photography needs a lot of light. It was also an overcast day, under the cover of tree canopies and brush. It could have gone either way. But the result was a series of warm, reddish-toned images that rendered our backyard flora and fauna otherworldly.
Thank you for reading, you’re beautiful.