Film

If you're a film photographer, you probably learned pretty early that developing black and white film is easy and straightforward enough that you could do it at home — but working with color is a lot more tricky. But it turns out that as long as you're precise, can keep track of time and temperature, and are willing to pick up some pretty affordable gear, it's still totally doable.

Many of us have attempted the 365 day photo project in the past — a personal quest to take a photograph every day for a year. But when photographer Travis Lawton decided he wanted to attempt a year long undertaking, he wanted to use film, not digital. And so he created Project OneRollFifty2, shooting one roll of film every week for a year.

Jack Smith has no legs. That's him pictured above. He had been working in a West Virginia coal mine for only a year before a tunnel roof collapsed, instantly severing one of his legs and crushing the other. Doctors couldn't save his remaining leg, and his lower half was amputated near his hips at age 21. It would be 18 years before he received his first Workmen's Compensation check.

I never intended to start collecting old film cameras, but somehow, it happened. I'd see an old Mamiya rangefinder at a garage sale and need to pick it up. A working Canon AE-1 on Craigslist for $20? Gotta have it. So, when I saw this massive collection for sale on eBay, my inner camera nerd got excited.