Holy crap, how did I forget that I took this photo?

I experiment with different film and digital techniques.  This is how I operate.

And some years ago, I rolled some 120 AGFA Scala film onto a 620 spool, and shot eight exposures in my Kodak Medalist II camera.  I sent the film off to the only place in the world that is capable of developing negative slide film – an Iowa company named DR5 – and at some point in time, they sent the developed film back to me.

I put it on a shelf, with the intention of scanning the film and seeing how things turned out.

Then I completely forgot about the film.

Let’s now fast-forward to last Sunday.  I’ve got several things on my plate – I’m making lunch, I’m cleaning my apartment, I’m waiting for the laundromat to call me and tell me my clothes are now clean and ready for pickup – hmm, here’s a small cardboard box.  And it’s got the DR5 logo on it.

I opened the box.

Eight developed images.

And I have absolutely no freakin’ idea when I took these pictures.  Or where, for that matter.  Possibly this was at Carp Pond in Corinth, I like photographing there.  But that’s a guess.

Anyway, I scanned the film …

This was the best image of the batch.

Wow.  That’s some serious tonal quality to that Scala film, and the Medalist captured it in powerful detail.

How the hell did I miss this picture?

I mean, I haven’t used AGFA Scala in ages … I keep thinking about using it, and then I don’t bother, and then I want to use it again, and then I have to find some … and then I take the pictures, and completely forgot I did take them.  That’s one of the three signs of old age, don’tcha know … loss of memory … I forgot the second one … and loss of memory.

Okay.  This just means that I need to pay more attention to when I bring film to the developers … and when they send it back to me, I need to pay attention to when it arrives.  😀