Photo Journal
17th April // A Temporary Home
Llanfairfechan // N53.258 W-3.980
Amongst many things returning back to Wales means returning to my collection of vintage camera lenses.
After solely using my digital, zoom lens, I was really looking forward to the artistic opportunities my other lenses would offer me. There’s a subtle beauty to each of these lenses, their specific lens flares, or bokeh, and being prime lenses means the constraints in framing really makes you consider your choice of lens and what youre trying to say about the subject.
Reflections and long exposures
So I set off on a walk not all together unfamiliar to me, mostly repeating the well worn path of my past self only without expectations, treating every moment with the intimate care it deserves, finding beauty in the mundane, the abstract and the absolute, playing with my subject and the lens, seeing how many different ways I could take the same photo and what the intentional subtle differences would say and finding beauty in imperfection.
I think this is why people gravitate towards film, as there is a ruggedness to its artistry, and I think these lenses allow me to tap into this same essence.
