lost and found

 Sedgwick, Maine, late 2019. Canon AE-1 / Fujicolor Superia X-Tra 400

found a camera with film in it while packing up mom's house

went walking and finished shooting the roll

king oak

 Bristol, New Hampshire, summer 2020. Portra / Rolleiflex.

rivers

Smith River, Hill, New Hampshire, May 2020. Portra / Rolleiflex.

 

pages turn inside you

West Quoddy Head, Maine, 2016. Portra / Rolleiflex

to find a corner of the earth under a spell such as this

is to forget everything, to be struck down

and drained, then stood back up, to be

newly empty and feather-light

 

goose pond

 Alexandria, New Hampshire. Pentax K-1000 / Tri-X

empty

Grafton, New Hampshire 2019. Portra / Rolleiflex

new chester mountain road

Bristol, New Hampshire 2016. Pentax K-1000 / Portra

north

 Northern New Hampshire, July 2020. Nikkormat / HP5+

dixville

 

Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. July 2020. Nikkormat / Ilford HP5+

lord when I see the lovely things that pass

Mt Flume, New Hampshire. June 2020. Nikkormat / Ilford HP5+ 

a drowning in sunlight

Bristol, New Hampshire. April 2020. Ilford HP5+ / Canon AE-1

year of the hard hitter

Bristol, New Hampshire. April 2020. Nikkormat / Ilford HP5+

heima

By the fall of 2011 I had been living in Texas for a little over a year. Things weren't really going that well. I took three weeks off from my job and from some other shit and went home to the coast of Maine. On my way through Massachusetts I borrowed a leaky Mamiya 7 from my friend/former college professor/former landlord and bought a shitload of Kodak Portra and my scumbag friend Dan picked me up in his mom's minivan and we drove to Maine. I'm not making this up. I missed Maine so badly. I took all of these photos in Acadia National Park in October while extremely high on marijuana. I had never used a rangefinder before, which is to say I figured it out in two seconds and then promptly forgot it was any different from any other manual focus film camera, but go ahead and use that hashtag. I went back to Texas, lost track of all kinds of things including my self, and eventually got the film developed a year later when I gave up and moved back to New England. I remember cutting the film, putting it into plastic sleeves, noticing that it had come back very dirty, and putting it in a box. Guess what, eight years later we've got ourselves a pandemic and I don't have to go to work in the morning, I scanned the fucking film. LOTS of dust and garbage on the negatives, just real bad, but here are some pictures I took while I was high and feeling free.
Dog bless.

down

Bristol, New Hampshire. April 2020. Ilford HP5+ / Nikkormat

menhir

Bristol, New Hampshire. April 2020. Ilford HP5+ / Nikkormat.

phantoms

Porter, Maine 2019. Arista ULTRA / Nikkormat.

harbinger of nothing

Bristol, New Hampshire. April 2020. Ilford HP5+ / Nikkormat

hum

Sedgwick, Maine. Fall 2019. Arista ULTRA / Nikkormat.

250 dollars

New Hampshire 2019. Nikkormat / Arista ULTRA

one day I'll leave you, a phantom

Sedgwick, Maine, the last time I slept in the house I grew up in, Fall 2019. Arista ULTRA / Nikkormat.