Christy and her porch food.

Christy Mullins is a friend of mine and my ex-editor, well ex a lot of things actually, but still a good friend. I have always admired her sense of aesthetics. And I love this series of food she ate over the course of months. "Stuff I ate last summer." They were simply taken on kodak 35mm film and developed at walgreen's one-hour photo.

"There's this little gulp of nervousness when I go to the Walgreens counter and pick up my pictures because I know that all the great little life moments I tried to capture on my film camera could have much more easily been done with digital, and I would have known right away if they didn't turn out. I know I don't understand the light meter as well as I could, so I usually have to prepare myself for disappointment with each trip to the pharmacy. But out of the 24 exposures there are at least five photos that I look at and say, 'did I do that?'"