A Year on Film
I was in Wisconsin, Lake Geneva actually. It was quite cold, just the beginning of winter. I was very little at the time, but I recall walking into a store called the Dancing Unicorn. They had a lot of really neat things: hand engraved flasks, small carved and inlaid wooden boxes, tons of beautiful old books, and way in the back--some old cameras. There was a small hand-written sign on the shelf, it said "please do not trip the shutters." I had no idea what this meant at the time. If I just held it, would something break? They were weird, these little old boxes, some with large metal disks on the top with a light bulb. I was intrigued. My camera was a little plastic Kodak C613 that I had just gotten from my aunt the Christmas or two before. Point and shoot digital camera, nothing special, I took photos mostly of people's shoes and Lego bricks. Then there below, way below, was a Certo Dolly camera from the 1930s. ...