Onondaga Falls is one of the many beautiful waterfalls tucked into the rugged landscape of Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania. Located along Kitchen Creek, the falls drops through a wooded gorge surrounded by moss-covered rocks, ferns, and the dense forest that makes this area such a rewarding place to photograph. For me, though, this particular photograph carries a little extra significance. This was the first roll of negative film I ever developed entirely at home. After exposing the film in the field, I processed the negatives myself, then scanned them at home using my own setup. There was definitely a little uncertainty involved in seeing that first strip of developed film emerge, wondering whether I had gotten the chemistry, temperatures, timing, and handling right. Seeing the image of Onondaga Falls come together on the final scan made the whole process worthwhile. It marked the beginning of being able to take a roll of film from camera to finished digital image entirely on my own, making this photograph not only a record of a beautiful Pennsylvania waterfall, but also a milestone in my journey into film photography.
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