Wow! It has been almost a year since I have written here. Last Roll was never meant to be literal, but a whole year since posting, what's going on? I don't think I'm alone when I say that one of the insignificant ill effects of the pandemic was my photography. I can't put my finger on it for sure, maybe it was a disturbance in the rhythm of my life, but after losing my job, having to create a new startup company so I could keep going and concentrating on stabilising it, my photography has definitely taken a back-seat over the last couple of years. It's not like I haven't picked up a camera, but it hasn't been the same.
Creativity requires time and energy something that for me has been in short supply recently. But like one of those desert flowers that blooms when it rains, it's strange how some things can make photographic passion reawaken. Last week a mixture of opportunity, beautiful light and a welcome return after a long loan of my brilliant Zeiss Distagon 28mm lens everything came together when I shot these colourful pictures of my town's summer fair. I could see immediately as the scan preview popped up that I had caught the atmosphere of the evening, even if these photos were on the edge of hand-held darkness at f2.8 and 1/30.
All photographed with CONTAX S2 and Zeiss Distagon f2.8 28mm on Fuji C200