Welp.  It’s been over two months since my film was lost in the mail and USPS has still not recovered it.  While I’ve come to terms with losing those photos, I’ve still not loaded up a new roll of film since then.

Experimented with taking my digital camera around instead and, perhaps not surprisingly, the results are mixed.  While yes it’s nice to have all the modern features of a digital camera, I’m still not entirely happy with the resulting images.  I suppose I could take them into Lightroom or Photoshop and play around with everything to try emulating film as best I could, but it seems more trouble than it’s worth.

So this is me – still working on finding a path in photography that I’m happy with.   I’ve also declared that I’m taking a break from Instagram and in the meantime have actually turned my attention to my own archive.

Calling it an archive makes it seem cooler than it is – really just a huge assortment of JPGs scattered over multiple hard drives, USB sticks, burned CD’s, memory cards, you name it…  Completely unorganized and, unfortunately, not well tended-to.  There are large gaps where months or years worth of photos should be and I’ve run out of places to look for them.  Lost to the sands of time, a bit like the 3 rolls of film I lost this year (except, y’know, I did get to see them at the time).

To my great surprise I was able to find pictures going back over 20 years ago, from my very first digital camera – the Sony DSC-P30!

This 1.3 megapixel wonder was really a solid camera for the time and I absolutely loved using it.  In fact, I’ve bought one off of eBay for like $20.  It actually works pretty well!  Taking it around the past few days has been fun and I’ll add some sample photos (both current and past) behind the jump:

Behold! This is the first recoverable image that I ever took on this camera – August 2nd, 2001, a few days after purchasing it. Look how young I am, and how crappy that beard was!

Other random stuff:

Now to current times, these are from the other day: