It's nearly been a month since I was 16 hours in the future and yet visiting my past at the same time. Coming back to the states was just about as abrupt as going to China. We seemed to hit the ground running once we got to China. The minute we had set foot in a new airport, we would be whisked away again to see such and such historical site or the biggest, tallest, oldest whatever. Since I've been back in LA, it seems that that hectic pace still hasn't let up. Life is running at full speed back here leaving little time to recover from China. This past week has been particularly hectic since I've picked up a freelance gig at a design agency and am crewing over the weekends for a film shoot, so it looks like I'll be working 17 straight days. Despite my lack of time, I definitely want to keep writing about my experiences in China.
I recently got my film back from the developers. Before the trip, I thought it'd be a good idea to bring a new camera I had just picked up for the trip; 'new' being relative. It's an old Kowa 35mm camera from probably back in 70s. It made sense at the time to bring a spare camera on a trip to the other side of the world so I wouldn't risk damaging my Canon A1. But in retrospect, bringing an untested camera on a long trip that I won't be repeating any time soon was probably a bad idea considering that one of my rolls didn't catch because of the crappy winding mechanism. I only shot 58 photos with the Kowa because of the weather conditions and my lack of variety in my film speeds. The majority of my shots were pretty crap, but I do have a couple that aren't too bad.
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