Some time ago, at least 5 years, maybe as many as 10, I had my first go at developing my own film. One of the first things I did was an experiment in ‘Selfies’. I’m pretty sure I was ahead of my time in this regard! At the time I was doing quite a bit of letterpress printing and bookbinding, so I had a box of surgical gloves, using them seemed like a good idea.
I came across the negatives the other day and scanned them, no dust removal or touching up, I like that they are far from perfect. The plan had always been to crop them so I have. My memory is a little hazy on details but it was definitely an Ilford film and would have been either a Minolta Dynax 5000i or an Olympus OM2, I think the former but am not sure.
Two things are immediately evident to me from looking at them again, the first is that they make me feel very vulnerable, to the point that I wasn’t sure whether to post them or not. The second is that I’ve definitely put on weight since then!
