First

An old image. My first 120 roll actually. I miss loaded the film into the development tank and shit stuck. I was making photographs of my then girlfriend because within 24 she would be on a plane to Tucson, AZ to return to school. I had just bought my Yashica Mat 124G or rather my mother had just bought me my Yashica Mat 124G and I had to shoot one roll even though I had no idea how to use it. I metered with my SLR because I hadn't yet bought a hand held meter nor did I know that I needed one or that they even existed. I painted the background on the floor of my dingy garage behind my apartment at 20th and Garfield in mid August when Lincoln is humid and hot as hell, when the sweat stick won't wash off. Leaves stuck in the paint which turned out to be very nice looking. I got Lauren drunk as soon as she arrived and we had a great time. I have polaroids of all the spilled wine. I was 19 years old. Somehow that seems like such a long time ago.

Colin