Eons - Utah

Harry Snowden

@desertreak, and @silverwilddesign 2023

For various reasons mortality influenced a lot of the work I made in 2023, at times I planned shoots unrelated to just to give myself a break. But everything was leading up to this shoot. The concept of what gets left behind on earth was very present in my mind. I think the first element I knew I needed was the cholla skeleton, then I thought how interesting it would be to pair that with seashells from the Salish Sea, the tulle was a textural choice that was rooted in funeral veils. But those are just objects, @desertfreak and @silverwilddesign were the final piece to this project, they were more than what you see in the images, they were true collaborators helping build this entire concept.

Two photos I took during winter of '21. I love the magical light and the texture in these. Shot on Tmax 100 35mm film.

Photography by Sheldon Buchler sheldonbuchler.com Select prints available in my shop! Contact me if you’d like a print that isn’t available

Actress Mia R on an indie horror movie last week in Frederick, Maryland. Canon 1v, LensBaby Edge 50. Kodak TMAX 100

A little graveyard of cars

Nu - Nikon FM2 TMX100

Handmade print of “Berber man at the entrance to the Sahara Desert”.

Shot on Kodak T-Max 100 in December 2023.

Bergger Prestige variable CB 50,8x61cm

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Chinatown, June 2023

Taken on Kodak p3200 (rainy day)

Snow story {digging through the archive}

Digging through the archive, film I've developed, scanned and left waiting. It was one of the drives through the countryside my father and I take every December. Here, a spring water pool in a middle of a village. December 2011.

Taken with borrowed Fujica G690BL medium format 6×9 film camera, its EBC Fujinon S 100mm F3.5 lens, on Kodak T-Max 100 Professional film. Developed in Kodak Xtol, 1+1 dilution. Scanned with Canon CanoScan 8800F flatbed scanned, using VueScan.

Misting - High Cascades - Oregon

Harry Snowden

No. 9 @desertfreak and @silverwilddesigns

In so many ways 2023 was all about working up to this shoot. There are so many layers to what makes this shoot so special, not the least of which was working with both @desertfreak and @silverwilddesigns together. This was a perfect Tucson fall day. And this was the emotional peak of my feelings of fear, curiosity, and acceptance of my own mortality. This shoot is about death, it’s about what is left behind, but what surprised me is the tenderness that came through in the end.

Emily @sunflower-spirit at a park south of Ypsilanti, MI in early spring 2021. Photographed with Kodak Tmax100 35mm film. She looks so witchy particularly with the ancient knotted tree in the other picture!

Photography by Sheldon Buchler

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Here is a crop to show how much detail 35mm Tmax 100 film has. I scan at over 5000dpi to achieve 36 megapixels of digital resolution, just slightly overshooting the film's approximate 34 megapixels of fully analog granular detail.

Indie horror movie 2 weeks ago. Frederick, Maryland. Canon 1v, LensBaby Twist 60. Kodak TMAX 100. NIK

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