The age old question, monochrome or colortastic?

Dear little Mary let me practice a new 6x7 camera on her recently. The shoot was a total disaster, the damn thing has a mind of its own, choosing to work perfectly one moment and not functioning in the slightest the next. What a jerk! Needless to say the little hellion will be sent off to boarding school soon to be corrected. We did get one passable shot of the 6 or so taken, now I just can't decide if I like it in the colors or the black and whites...

I went for a walk the other day and saw some things.

I walked around downtown Provo this past week running some film through another of my little babies, my Yaschica Electro 35. I was very pleased with her behavior, she didn't even complain once about being dragged all over town in the freezing cold. Bless her!

a couple more for the road

A couple more from my first roll on The Canonet that I thought weren't worth throwing away. This is a good thing, I'm getting all sorts of interested/excited about fotographing again. Bless my heart!

great light is always found in the bathroom

there it is, the self portrait in a mirror that every Canonet owner inevitably takes. seriously, just search "canonet" on flicker and you'll be greeted by a gaggle of hipsters reveling in the greatness of themselves and their sexy little cameras. i am one of them. i just developed the first roll from this little beauty, i was not expecting such great performance. i'm sold, that's it, film is not dead, technology sucks. i did very light color correcting on this, the extreme yellow cast is due to the fluorescent lights on daylight balanced film, none of that auto white balance digital shit here, no sir!

welcome to the family, little one

after a very long wait, we received the newest member of our ever growing family today. she came to us at 4:15 p.m. weighing 1 lb. 6 oz. with a 40mm f1.7 lens and beautiful chrome accents. both the father and newborn are healthy and happy.

bigger is better

i'm headed back to the world of film, thanks to my very charitable father in-law. not only was this my first time shooting film in over 5 years, but it was my first experience with 4x5 film and the hefty sized camera that it requires. needless to say, this experience was quite fun, i need to be more gentle while handling the film in the future, but i am very very excited to be headed back to this happy land!

i know we've seen very similar shots on this blog before, but i felt it would be appropriate and comfortable to begin this very new experience with something familiar.

big sister

i shot some family portraits for my big Sis and her family tonight. this is my favorite pic of the bunch, i wish i could always shoot like this.