I'm a little T.O.'d
The other evening Jon and I walked through weedy fields up to our necks, crossed the cow-urine contaminated slack water of the teton river two or three times, trespassed through a farmer's field and finally arrived at a gorgeous diversion dam on the Teton River just in time for gorgeous light. We photographed until dark and I was really excited about the images.
The other day (a rare overcast day at that) Jon and I got into his Pick-up and drove to the Ice Caves (a series of caves 45 minutes north of Rexburg that are insulated so well that they still contain ice). The road was sort of rough (I don't think my Subaru would make it, the light was great, the caves were fantastic, but the exposures were long, some as long as 40 minutes. I was also very excited about these photographs.
I dropped the film off yesterday at our only lab in town that develops medium format film. When I came back to pick up the film they were slow to the counter, and acted a little strange. I could see the owner in his office sort of hiding out. Finally one of the employees came out and said "there was sort of a problem". Anyway, three of the four rolls of film I dropped off got stuck in the machine and were ruined. They were nice enough to give me two rolls of Kodak Gold as a replacement. They even wanted me to pay for the one roll that wasn't ruined. I convinced them that they should let me have it for free. One nice quote from her "were these taken nearby, I hope?" Ahhhhhh.
Anyway, here are two images that did turn out:
Crystal Falls Ice Cave Entrance
I'm not sure of the name of this cave (Jon do you know?)
The other day (a rare overcast day at that) Jon and I got into his Pick-up and drove to the Ice Caves (a series of caves 45 minutes north of Rexburg that are insulated so well that they still contain ice). The road was sort of rough (I don't think my Subaru would make it, the light was great, the caves were fantastic, but the exposures were long, some as long as 40 minutes. I was also very excited about these photographs.
I dropped the film off yesterday at our only lab in town that develops medium format film. When I came back to pick up the film they were slow to the counter, and acted a little strange. I could see the owner in his office sort of hiding out. Finally one of the employees came out and said "there was sort of a problem". Anyway, three of the four rolls of film I dropped off got stuck in the machine and were ruined. They were nice enough to give me two rolls of Kodak Gold as a replacement. They even wanted me to pay for the one roll that wasn't ruined. I convinced them that they should let me have it for free. One nice quote from her "were these taken nearby, I hope?" Ahhhhhh.
Anyway, here are two images that did turn out:
Crystal Falls Ice Cave Entrance
I'm not sure of the name of this cave (Jon do you know?)
5 Comments:
there's your reason to start sending your film to a good lab! you'll pay extra for postage but then you won't have as many worries about a bunch of hacks wrecking your film. having to pay for the one roll would have been enough for me to say "later".
i know, the quick turn around is nice, i'm still not sure what i'm going to do.
Which is worse... painting your living room gray because Walmart gave you the wrong paint, or finding out your film has been ruined?
Definitely the film, I can repaint the room. I have to say though, I was much more angry in Wal Mart than I was in the photo lab. I can't believe that idiot Duane still works there oh well. Sorry if nobody but Carrie knows what I'm talking about.
i think painting your living room grey...middle grey!.... is a darned-good idea! your family pictures would be perfectly exposed every time!
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