Spain and some thoughts.
We leave for Spain and I'm woefully unprepared. Except for one thing: how I'm going to capture our experience. I planned that ahead, go figure. I'm taking one camera: my Canon 630 . With it, precisely and intentionally fifteen rolls of Kodak Portra 400 and three rolls of Ilford FP4+ . Portra intentionally for its un-contrasty and unsaturated rendering of color and FP4+ for its dense midtones and rich tonality, and both for their subtle analog grain structure. It's how I envision Spain to look already in my mind... I'm also very intentionally packing one other device: a Sanyo Xacti VPC-ZH1 , circa 2010 and the days of Woot! . It's what K and I brought to New Zealand to capture video of our honeymoon , that J ultimately edited for us years later. It's ridiculously lo-fi and exactly what I want to use. That said, K and I still have heaps of things to sort through before we leave. It's maybe been questionable how excited I am at the thought of leaving. Fol...
