10/17/2026
Last night as Sunshine and I walked around The Lucky Rabbit, with me taking photos as usual, we came upon a booth with a lot of old cameras, reel to reels, & 8mm video recorders. Being a camera nut, I had to stop and look. Right there on the second shelf down, was a Minolta X370 35mm film camera from 1984. That camera immediately brought back a flood of memories, as that camera, one like it, was the camera I initially picked up for the first time as a teenager. It belonged to my Dad. One of the first images I ever made was of my Dad with his Minolta X370. He had bought that camera to take pictures on the many, many road trips we made in the summers all throughout the country. Seeing that camera to me was emotional and at the same time, so familiar. I feel like I was supposed to find it. Or maybe, it found me.
So, of course, I had to buy it. Now to buy some more film and make more memories.
I miss you Dad.