figure 8.

figure 8: picture 1 (Canmore, AB)

I took this picture with my film camera on 35 mm Lomography film. This is why it looks as if there is a filter on the picture because, in a sense, the Lomography aspect of the film makes each picture look a different colour from how it is presented in reality.

We had just finished an extremely long hike and I was not in the happiest of moods because I had basically been dragged (not to sound too dramatic) to the hike. However, I saw the two people ahead of me holding hands and strolling quite gallantly ahead of me, and I thought that I should document this moment as they were very evidently more active and physically fit than I was. I also thought that they looked rather wholesome, hiking and holding hands together (because who has the energy to climb and cling onto another human being?).

Initially, I had intended to take all of my photos for this project on film but accidentally exposed my film before it had rolled, and then I got the film pictures back and was not very pleased with the outcome (again, the need to always make a spectacle and nothing less). I think this photo and the way through which I captured it, gives it an atmosphere of vulnerability and "old-fashionedness." Film is usually a symbol of the past-- with pictures being taken on film in the 90's, and the two humans' grey/white hair altogether in one picture made me feel as though my perception of "true love" was this. A long stroll (that was actually a hard, difficult climb) in nature, connected by a hand that you have had by your side throughout all these years.