Photography
I've made photographs my entire life. There are photos of me as a toddler with a made in Hong Kong Diana that shot 120 film. For a stretch, I made photographs professionally. These days I shoot both film and digital, and I've stopped pretending the two are rivals. Digital is fast, capable, and convenient for documentation. Film I use just because I like it—that should be reason enough.
What keeps pulling me back is large-format work and the darkroom. A large-format negative enforces a certain slowness: a handful of frames, each one deliberate, and then making a silver-halide print made by hand under a safelight, with chemistry that hasn't fundamentally changed in a century. I won't claim anything mystical about this craft. It rewards patience, it punishes sloppiness, and at the end there is a physical print you can hold. That is a lot more than I can say for the hard drives full of digital images.
So the current project is a return to darkroom printing. If you're a large-format or darkroom person yourself, I'm always glad to compare notes. The contact page has the details.