On the day my Crown Graphic 4x5 press camera arrived in the mail, I was waiting for a very important phone call and couldn't leave the house. I had no film and staring at the camera was making me crazy. I did happen to have a box of black and white 8x10 polycontrast RC paper which I promptly cut into 4x5 sheets and loaded into film holders. I'd used paper negatives  before with pinhole cameras, it was cheap.

I could take photos now, but I couldn't go more than ten feet from my house -- which was the range of my cordless phone. I'd never really thought of my house or my yard as photogenic, but I was very suprised how interesting things can get when you have no other options. All of these images (including the portraits towards the end) were done on Ilford IV paper, developed in Dektol and scanned as negatives on a flatbed scanner.

The phone call didn't happen for three days. In those 72 hours, I took 40 images -- here are 18 of them.

-- kyle cassidy

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