There are many ways to live life by slowing down time. Even in unproductivity, there are many times when time passes in the blink of an eye.
The passage of time is relative.
Now then, about cameras... While enjoying the benefits of technology with the spread of digital cameras, I find myself realizing that I end up doing things "on and on, anytime." Shooting endlessly. Accumulating endlessly. Before I know it, my phone's storage is completely full.
Lately, I've been trying out film cameras. Well, I'm quite bad at it, but I'm enjoying it.
I feel an indescribable sense of inconvenience. My home doesn't have a darkroom and I can't develop photos, so I have no choice but to ask someone else. And all I can do is wait.
Waiting and waiting, and to top it all off, you encounter photos that didn't turn out very well. Waiting and waiting, you also happen to come across ones that turned out surprisingly well.
At any rate...
Thanks to this waiting time, the state of things when the photo was taken, how should I put it, gets stretched out. In camera terms, you could say it's like having the shutter speed set very slow; with the shutter left open, I feel the sensation of that place and time from when it was shot "continuing long and slow" all the way until right now.
For example, if you go to the zoo, I feel that the fun thoughts and emotions from back then continue along with it, sensed through the flow of time matched with the process of film development.
Is it a 'restriction' that 'looking forward to something = cannot obtain it immediately'? I feel that keeping such conditions close to me is very important for me these days. In the midst of a sense of time passing in the blink of an eye, I am confirming how I can adjust its speed, perhaps, lol. It's like instantaneous thoughts are in a swimming pool, in different lanes, at different speeds, stretching time, overlapping, and mixing with each other.
And everything flows by slowly
