I just thought of this wacky simile. Photography is like a fire. Someone just put a bunch of fresh logs on - digital photography. In the ashes are glass plates, daguerreotypes, tin types (though I saw an awesome exhibit Joni Sternbach's Tin Types at the Peabody Essex Museum this summer). The embers underneath the fire, still glowing, is film.
I've been playing around with cameras and film this winter. Here are some images from a trip to Joshua Tree National Park.
Film is great for trying to be more creative. You have less control of the process in a way, because you can't see immediately how your images turned out. You can either plan your shots more carefully. Or just look, see, and press the shutter, and move on.
