I have less than 90 days left…

The last day is approaching.  And there’s nothing I can do – no arguments, no pleadings, no negotiations – that can extend it past one more second.

On December 30, 2010, Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas will develop its last batches of Kodachrome film – and that’s it.  No other rolls of Kodachrome will ever be developed by anyone – ever.

And I have less than 90 days left to use the film.

So far, I’ve had great success with Kodachrome; some of my shots with the iconic slide film have appeared in competition and in publications.  It’s been a great tool for me in terms of working with film – i.e., not relying completely on a digital camera to compensate for my shots.  The excitement of receiving my film back from Kansas, opening the package, looking through the slides, and going – okay – decent – holy cow, how did I get that shot?

There are still a few things I want to photograph before it’s too late.  My photography shopping list includes:

• Christmas lights at night, possibly a trip through the Washington Park lights display.
• The lunar eclipse on December 21.
• The rainbow-illuminated evening view of Niagara Falls (I had tried to get this back in March, but things didn’t work out).
• Some golden hour sunrises and sunsets in the Capital District.
• Some evening city skyscraper shots (I still have one roll of Kodachrome 40 for this task)

And then one final roll, which I hope to photograph for the entire day on December 28, 2010.  That roll will go into a FedEx mailer to get to Kansas before the deadline – only film arriving before noon on December 30th will be processed.

I’m going to get as many of these “goals” as I possibly can.

Hopefully I’ll achieve all of them.

I’d settle for most of them.

But I will not give up.

You know me.