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. Folks at the office might say I don't look it, at all. The other day when we got a surprise email from Delta I asked K the question, "How committed are we on going?" It's her fourtieth and her brother who lives there we're seeing so she's genuinely more invested than me.

That's normal, and totally ok.

Then, almost serendipitously I came across a random Instagram post from Reinhold Messner...

"Every now and then, we should all spread our wings again – before we forget that we have them."

Thanks Reinhold, I maybe needed that. Off we go...