Accidents will happen…

This is the first frame from a roll of film I shot with Ginger Paige about 8 or 9 days ago.  In the past couple years since I started shooting and processing my own film again, this is the second time I have had a first frame that was partially exposed.  The first time was just the nature of how I loaded the roll of film.  But this time, was because I screwed up somehow.  Which is even more ironic since during the shoot I was telling Ginger that I have only screwed up one roll of film in the past couple of years. For whatever reason, maybe because we were shooting outside in low 30 degree weather that day, the roll of film jammed up 6 frames in to our shoot.  I popped open the back of the camera and adjusted the film canister, closed the camera and started shooting again.  I knew that I had more than likely lost those first 6 frames but that the remaining 30 frames would be fine.  We wrapped out shoot up with some digital images and called it quits.  It was just a bit too cold to shoot much more.  Once I got back home, I process the roll and hung it up to dry.  A couple hours later I scanned the negatives and was very pleased that this first frame was preserved.

accidents will happen, whose meaning is “however careful you try to be, it is inevitable that some unfortunate or unseen events will occur”