Thoughts on Ektar 100

I recently shot my first roll of Kodak Ektar 100 — a slow film with a reputation for punchy colors. I actually had purchased it this winter, but you can imagine winter in Anchorage is pretty dreary, lifeless, and dark. The good news is that the summers are the total opposite: blue skies and sunshine for 23.9 hours a day, seas of green everywhere you look (much to the chagrin of my seasonal allergies) and understanding bosses that know you just wanna get the fuck out of the city and into the wild on a Friday afternoon. So I pulled the roll out of the deep freeze and snapped off 38 frames to see how it panned out.

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