June 8th, 2007, Bolsa Chica.

Shooting film on a manual camera has got to be one of the most liberating things you can experience as a photographer. It breaks down all you have come to understand as a camera and simplifies a process that has these days has become so complex, that photography is no longer a subject matter or perspective, but moreso about optimal resolution, noise control, even raw conversion. Now I'm not trying to disregard the later, on the contrary, digital photography today has improved as a result of decades of refining the photographic process. But my point is that while both tools of course enable you to shoot based off of a personal perspective and feeling, only one forces you into a niche where you have no choice but to rely on the bare necessities, absent minded of the technological advances that occasionally distract us.