A.F. Lane

My little plastic camera is getting way more use then I ever expected. It tends to live in my purse along with a whole bunch of other crap. But every now and then I see something worth shooting, sometimes it takes me a month to shoot one roll of film.....pathetic.

Working at a college I get to witness the way photography is changing first hand. Sometimes a student will ask me "what is all that noise?", and I say "that's called film grain". Or, I will look over their shoulders and see that they are dusting an image at %300 and I say "why are you doing that, you couldn't spot tone at %300" and they say "Oh, I have never spot toned". I proceed to go home and search for gray hairs. But really I am only about 4 years older then the average senior.... the times they are a changin', but that's OK. The point is they still make images, and great images at that. I like making this work because I never dust and I love all the grain (especially in the bottom photo).