Photography
I've made photographs most of my life, and for a stretch of it I made them professionally. These days I shoot both film and digital, and I've stopped pretending the two are rivals. Digital is fast, capable, and honest about its convenience. Film I use because I like it, which is reason enough.
What keeps pulling me back is large-format work and the darkroom. A large-format negative enforces a certain slowness: a handful of frames, each one deliberate, and then a silver-halide print made by hand under a safelight, with chemistry that hasn't fundamentally changed in a century. I won't claim any mystical significance for this. It's craft. It rewards patience, it punishes sloppiness, and at the end there is a physical print you can hold, which is more than I can say for the hard drives full of digital frames.
So the current project is a return to darkroom printing. If you're a large-format or darkroom person yourself, I'm always glad to compare notes -- the contact page has the details.