Matt Benson

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I'm Matt Benson, a Florida-based graphic designer and photographer who enjoys going outside and writing about it. This is where I document those adventures.

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The Woods is a Time Machine
The Woods is a Time Machine

This past weekend I did some time traveling. Not in the science fiction sense, where someone jumps into a DeLorean or a phone booth and leaps forward and backward in a dramatic attempt to rectify some injustice committed in an alternate timeline. No, my time travel was a little more tame than that.

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Florida Adventures, PhotographyMatt Bensonjuniper prairie wilderness, ocala national forest, florida, the real florida, artifacts, stars, photography, contrast, black and white, mamiya 7ii, 80mm f/4, film, analog, grain, tri-x, kodak, 400TX, iPhone XR, Nikon D610, Nikon 24mm f/1.4, matt benson, woods, 120, explore, national forest, Milky Way, shooting star
The Things We Carried
The Things We Carried

They warn you about the bears. They warn you about the alligators. They warn you about the rattlesnakes and the water moccasins. But they never warn you about the two guys hauling an oversized bathroom mirror miles through the brush and the thicket into the wilderness. Probably best to stay clear of those two.

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Florida Adventures, PhotographyMatt Bensonmamiya 7ii, 80mm, red filter, kodak, 400TX, Tri-X 400, 120, film, analog, medium format, ocala, ocala national forest, florida, the real florida, woods, juniper prairie wilderness, portrait, black and white, rangefinder, matt benson, photography, landscape, mirror, mamiya, pushed, 1600, grain, 6x7
Contact Sheets
Contact Sheets

One of my goals for 2019 is to create a zine about the Juniper Prairie Wilderness area of the Ocala National Forest. In conjunction with this zine, I’m creating a blog series called Contact Sheets, where I post the entire contact sheet for each roll of film I shoot for this project. I spent yesterday developing and scanning three rolls from a recent Juniper Prairie Wilderness trip, so what better day to kick off this project than January 1?

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Florida Adventures, PhotographyMatt Bensonjuniper prairie wilderness, ocala national forest, florida, mamiya, rz67, pro, II, Kodak, 400TX, Tri-x, 400, black and white, landscape, red filter, #25, 50mm, uld, 110mm, matt benson, photography, photo, contact sheet, scans, grain, 120, film, medium format, 6x7, taking root