I was going though a box of old negatives last week (yes, a box – 10 years ago when I first started taking photos I didn’t really care about properly storing my negatives) and I came across a photo I took of my (now) 13 year old dog, Yukon.
This photo was taken in 2000, with my Pentax K1000 when I was first learning the basics of everything photography (exposure, composition, negative development, and printing). I can almost relegated the negative to the box because the image was out of focus. However, a decade later and this image immediately grabbed my attention while looking through the negatives. I now like the fact that it’s blurry, and that 10 years of being in a box have added some scratches – it makes it feel reminiscent of a dream, which fits my current aesthetic. Every so often, I like going through my old images – not only do I get a chuckle out of what I was photographing back then, but it helps me remember who I was and where I came from as a photographer.
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