Serendipitous Discoveries

by chris cunningham

Renaissance Faire, 1992

A long time ago I went out shooting with a friend of mine. Back then with film cameras some of them you hand cranked the film back into the canister. At least with my Nikon you had too. Accidently I didn’t crank one of the rolls all the way back and the tongue of the film was still sticking out. I set the rolls aside and a short time later a group of us kiddies were heading out to the Faire in Devore. I grabbed the supposedly unused roll, and some other transparency film, and shot away. When I got that roll back I was looking at it on the light table and I had one of the most amazing rolls of film I’d ever seen. All these cool texures, face and colors. I knew what had happened, but sometimes you just get really lucky. Double exposures, it’s so old school.

Now that I have a proper scanner, I can finally give my old negs and chromes some decent scans.