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I don’t always have a specific goal or objective in mind when making an image, other than “I’d like to make a nice photo” but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. My friend Matt Staver is a talented, young photographer and once asked me “what was your objective in making that photograph?” but I didn’t have a good answer for him.

This year I got to see more bad movies than in any previous year. I’m not talking just about mediocre movies or films that did not live up to expectations but movies that I hated more than The Last Jedi. There were several movies I saw that many people and critics liked but I found that while they had a few good scenes ultimately they were not great or even good film —in my opinion.

In all of the writing that I have done for my books, magazine stories as well as this blog I’ve always tried to be honest with my readers with my opinions on the pros and cons of any of the cameras, lenses and even the film and photo labs that I used, tried and written about. It didn’t matter to me whether these approaches to photography were done for therapy (like this blog is mainly for me) or for publication because I feel that not doing so honestly would be doing my readers a disservice.

Every photographer has heard this one, nauseatingly more than once: “That’s a really good picture, you must really have a good camera.”

And so on a particular Saturday morning, I headed to the Parker, Colorado Cars & Coffee carrying my Panasonic Lumix G5 that was converted to Infrared by LifePixel and made the photographs you see here.

Japan Camera Hunter’s JCH StreetPan 400 film 400 ISO 35mm x 36 exposure is a versatile panchromatic film perfect for the lovers of monochrome but you’ll never know based on m y experience.