Rachel Perkins Blog: Snap, Capture, Pop

Seeing Marty has inspired me to pull out this old camera of Aunt Gaggy’s. It’s small but heavy and still takes 35mm film. Sure, I have a camera ap. on my fancy phone but this seems more appropriate in my search for a root system of my own. Like I have said before, I’m really not an artsy type. I wouldn’t think of putting “photographer” on a business card or anything. The funny thing is that when people see me with such a relic of a camera, they assume that I know more about it than I do.

Snap, Capture, Pop: jon-michael the artist

I do enjoy taking pictures with it and having to wait before seeing them. There's just something more wondrous about the process of it than today’s typical digital-does-everything-for-you “process”. It has become slightly therapeutic and perhaps gives me a peep hole into why artists become addicted to art. It makes me think of Jon-Michael, my artsy baby brother... so misunderstood. It must have been hard for him sometimes. I realize that he is different than the over populated trendy artists who have also become very talented at marketing themselves. He is attached to it like it is a baby without which life has no meaning. It is not nearly the same as me “giving it a go” with this old 35mm. I sure hope to visit with him soon.

I got some negatives back today.... here are a few from the first roll of Aunt Gaggy’s old camera. HMMMM, I wonder what all that lady had up her sleeve. Her gifts are ones that keep on giving.