F100

In June 2007 I bought a Nikon F100 film camera. It was and still is the only camera I have ever owned. While my use of it has been sporadic, the camera has documented various moments of my life when I got around to taking time to use it. Unlike a digital camera where you are free to take tons of pictures, I learned to try to get the best out of the 25 shots available in roll of film. The F100 brings to mind the Ford pickup truck. The camera is built like a tank and has taken abuse from leaving it in a car for days during a hot Nevada summer to dropping it down the stairs of my house but it still works perfectly. I have taken terrible pictures from when I first got the camera and I was unintentionally messing with the ISO setting of the camera to what I think of as great pictures. Regardless of the quality of my photography I still have many pictures that I love. It is difficult to keep all of my pictures together as some of them are printed and in small brown bags while others are on my computer. In the future even when I do get a nice digital camera I will always come back and use my F100 or at least until the camera does not make the real noise a camera should when taking a picture which for me is half the reason of using it.

Below are some pictures that I found on my computer:

Joshua Trees

Ian Wayne climbing at Smith Rock in November of 2007

A less experienced Charlie Grant

A lifeless tree at Smith Rock

A silhouette

A younger Abby Conyers

The woods behind my house

Eddie Friedman at Tieton River Rocks in November 2008

Belaying

Chris Potts and his shadow

Big Ed

My backyard last winter

A picture taken by Charlie last summer. We biked from his house and spontaneously decided to go to Sauvie Island.