Hola!
So I’m writing this now (8:18pm) because I don’t know if were going out later tonight. So I just wanted to update you all on my day. Woke up and went in early to develop my negs from the past couple days. They turned out OK. Not as happy as I wanted to be with them. I have one holder that’s a little sticky and fucked one up and I guess I miscounted because I didn’t have one that I knew I took and I went back to look at my holders and I still have one that I haven’t developed. Which is too bad, but Im not going to shoot 5 more just to get that one frame, besides I took it with the digital camera also so I’ll just use that. I imagine that for Friday I’ll have about 5 or 6 film prints and the rest digital, which is fine – I’ve been generally more happy with my digital work this trip than the film. OMG I’m getting addicted to the sandwiches here. They have basically taken over my diet. So again today we had our favorite French tour guide, NICOLE! And today we were off to the Henri Cartier Bresson Foundation – Which I was really looking forward to, but it was a little less epic than I had hoped. There were only like 10 or so prints and we ended up watching a film about him with him in it. It was a pretty interesting film, a little too long but good to see. And it was nice to see the prints – but to be honest Im not much for seeing prints in person vs seeing them in a book. That is unless the person is truly a master at printing and is (like me) super anal about technical quality. I remember nearly breaking into tears looking at some Hiroshi Sugimoto prints last semester. And I love HCB but IMO a 5x7 print is about the same on the wall as in a book. I love them, but you get it. Also just to clarify, I really do enjoy our tour guide Nicole, and I think she has some interesting information – I just happen to be a photo major and have a pretty good photo background so I don’t need her giving me a photo 101 history lesson. But other than that Shes been informative. Soooo then we all broke up and dispersed around the city. I went back to FIAP and on my way went to a café near FIAP and just hung out for a little while – killed some time, I feel so French!
Anyways, I went back to FIAP and rested a bit and had some dinner. Just got back from dinner and Im not up to too much. Im really looking forward to knocking off my prints tomorrow and maybe going to the Louvre in the afternoon or something. We’ll see. Bret is leaving tomorrow for Copenhagen until Sunday. So I plan on stealing his pillow and I’ll sleep well this weekend! Other than that not much to report for today. I have no imgaes for today (Im sorry) the next couple days will be processing and showing and not so much taking. But I’ll try and get some photos up tomorrow for you all to enjoy!
Also worth noting for myself to remember, the crazies across the street are active today! many windows open and they were on tables, in beds, making alarms go off at 7am this morning! Just making a mess of everything today!
Hope you’re all well!
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