The recent acquisition of a 35mm film camera for my every day, carry around camera has led me to take into the lab a few random rolls of 35mm that have been laying around for years. There’s not much, but what there is, well I am happy to have it…seeing this old film has been a pure gift. I have photos that were taken anywhere from probably 1995 to about 2000. I sometimes had a camera during these years but never really wanted to spend money on developing, until now I guess. In those days I was probably more likely to think I would be a professional skateboarder than even think about making a living in the photography world.

So now I have a few pretty bad, pretty grainy pictures from long ago expired film…and it is probably some of my favorite personal work I’ve “produced” this year. This particular frame was probably made somewhere in Nebraska where I usually got a bit bored and a bit anxious on the 22 hour journey from Naperville to Winter Park, Colorado, where I often headed out with friends and family to go snowboard during spring break. We rode an Amtrak train called the California Zephyr. The windows had offered nothing but flat land to stare at for hours upon end, but when you get to Nebraska you know that the Rockies will be in your view before too long. And the Rockies were worth the wait to see. The Rockies were beautiful.