Pumpkins on Film

Happy Halloween!

Film Friday

Fifi moves fast, so capturing her on film can be a trick. Especially when I am shooting the Polaroid.

I cherish these images of her.

Giant leaves

Sand and surf

Pouting about something on a log

A Tahoe Wedding - on Film

The past two months have been filled with magical moments, love, tears and oh so much joy and promise. I have gotten to witness and capture five amazing wedding days. Each unique and special in their own way. I have had the honor of shooting with some fantastic local talent and I can't thank Jessi LeMay, Chris Werner and Corey Fox enough for trusting in my work.

On Saturday, the 28th of September, I joined up again with Corey Fox and Johnny B of Corey Fox Photography & Johnny B Films to capture a lovely wedding at Lake Tahoe.

I loaded up my new DSLR along side my Polaroid Land Camera as I prepared for the day. Shooting with the Mark ii is pretty amazing, but to be honest, I could hardly wait to snap with a few frames of film, too.

Little did I know that I was going take one of my all time film photos to date. Isn't Alex gorgeous?!

A huge congratulations to the newlyweds! 

'roid week 2013

This week has been so much fun. Seeing the most amazing instant photography in the Flickr pool has been incredibly inspiring and wonderful to view. It was also great fun to have instant photography take over on the Mortal Muse blog, did you see all the great posts we had?

Here are the images I shared in the pool. All images except for the last one were shot using my Polaroid Land Camera 103 using Fuji pull apart film. The final image was shot using my sx-70 using impossible film. Happy Film Friday!

her studio

train spotting

land sailing

summah time

open window

self

show off

delivery

Friday on Film

When I shoot film I always feel like the end result has warped me back in time.These two shots from the parking garage near Chinatown in San Francisco are no exception, they feel really nostalgic to me. Perhaps it's because of the black and white film, or the point of view that I was shooting from.Whatever it is, I like it.

Flowers on Film

Poppies are such a perfect subject for film. I usually shy away from photographing flowers, but these were just asking, dancing and swaying their sexy hips to be photographed.

Dressed in their delicate oranges and reds, I couldn't say no. I had to get down on my knees, lean in and practically kiss their sweet petals.

Film Friday

One of my goals for 2013 was to shoot more film, specifically, at least 12 rolls/packs. Judging the fact that the fine folks at Gordon's Photo know me by face, name and phone number, I think I am filling the quota, and then some. I took so many photos during our camp trip with both the Yashica LM and the Polaroid 103. It felt good to have time to play with the film cameras, so good that I didn't have the DSLR out nearly as much as I normally would have on a a trip like this. I am learning so much as I challenge myself to use film. I see the light differently, I am getting how judge that light and adjust my aperture and shutter speeds accordingly. Not all my shots come out, the film gets jammed or doesn't get loaded in the first place (phantom film makes me sad), or the counter doesn't start and my frames get off, but I still like what I see for the most part.

Now where to start?
How about at the Half Moon Bay, down at the very windy beach? I used the Yashica for these two photos.

Then maybe a little bike riding down the camp ground's "alley"? (Also shot these two using the Yashica)

 

I  was able to sneak in some quiet time alone on the beach and got these two shots with the Polaroid.

I will be sharing more each Friday, and might be sneaking some images up on my Tumblr site, an.a.log, in the next few weeks. So stay tuned!

Film Friday- The San Fransico Edition

All shots taken with my Polaroid 103 using Fuji FP-100c film

Holly and the bridge.

Green is good

Incense

Slippers