Field Notes

Slow travel, film photography and things worth writing down.

Developing at home, a year later

After a year of developing black-and-white film in the kitchen, the biggest lesson is boring: temperature matters more than chemistry. A cheap thermometer did more for consistency than any new developer.

Three days on the coast without a plan

Trains, a paper map and one roll of film per day. The rule was simple: no photos of anything that already has a postcard.

Notes on a 50 mm lens

One focal length forces you to walk. Walking forces you to look. That is most of photography.