It felt like spring had only just arrived, but now it’s time for another solstice; the wheel turns and stops for no one. The unrelenting march of time can mean many a thing to many a person, but in a city like ours, there is one certainty that it inevitably brings: U-Haul season is upon us. That’s right. After six years atop our brick tower, the time has come.
I’ve walked these streets for about as long, occasionally catching myself playing “beyt byout” in my mind, wondering what it would be like to live behind that window or another, with my reveries becoming more and more conscious as the years went by and our patience wore thin. Don’t get me wrong; the pandemic brought our brick building together in wonderful ways. But we’ve grown tired of the drama. These walls are irradiated with it. And it would be awesome to get away from the constant rumble of I-5.
I want to write something about the strange tectonics of time and circumstance — the positive and negative charges of life, the emotional highs and lows coexisting and comingling — but I lack the energy. Here’s some pretty bad photography instead.
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I took these photos to try out a new toy; finally, something for those rolls that don’t come DX-coded, but of a little more substance than a Holga or a LOMO (even if this stock has that Soviet brand as a namesake).
But looking through these scans, I’m seeing more than shots of convenience taken on my walk to work; I’m seeing that slow goodbye.
The geographic center of Seattle and the only home I’ve known here. It’s been swell. Thanks for everything.
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I’m not confident enough about my metering to say this for certain, but I do get the sense that LomoChrome Color ’92 is a weird film stock. It doesn’t seem to like shadows very much, so the results are quite inconsistent in scenes with high dynamic range — which is funny, because those are the types of scenes I’m most attracted to.
But the lesson in the shots that did work is pretty philosophical: balance. It’s in the balance of light and shadow that the picture comes together.
Burners and b-sides, as Lucy Lumen put it: “you don’t get bangers without taking a bunch of these…”
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“Your sense of home – both externally and within yourself – is expanding. This cycle may be shifting you toward feeling more settled and secure, or you could literally find a new living situation. This also impacts your career and place in the world. There’s positive energy afoot, helping you feel more confident and able to go after what you want – it’s an ideal moment to take action.” // @thepattern this morning