Film is awesome...

So I dropped off some film at the store today, and then picked it up after school. It was worth the money because look how awesome it looks!! Film just has a different feel than digital, plus there was no retouching on these. Yep, none. I can't wait to shoot more. I want to offer it in addition to digital. I really like the fashion shots with film. So beautiful.

Jake at the pool

Oliver chilling poolside

pretty poppy

A little out of focus, but the light is amazing

Horses are pretty too

I love messy beds and babies

Looking out the window

Kylee at the game

Hays is beautiful

at the Arts Festival

Art

Waiting for the show

I promise I didn't make him pose like this

Splashing in puddles

love love love

Cornelia is a beauty

The colors and the soft focus make this picture look like a French Rococo painting. If only Cornelia was in a hoopskirt

A lot of this film was shot this summer. The shots with Cornelia was shot last week, though. So fun. Can't wait to keep on trucking with my Canon AE-1!! Awesome little film camera!

Blah...and Yay!! Pictorialism

I'm feeling blah today. I don't know why. I think it's a combination of feeling really stressed over school and getting shoots in. Also the pressure I put on myself to be the best is starting to wear me out. I need to get over it, but I've always been like this. It's just worse now because I really love photography, and I'm so desperate to not be a amateur or a "corny Utah" photographer. I need to stop, but until then, I feel blah.

Here are some things, though. I tried to shoot a photo inspired by Julia Margaret Cameron. Here is one of her photo's for an example. She was a British Photographer back in the 1860's-80's. I love her work.

Here are some of mine...I don't think I was too successful, but that's what school is about. Learning. The failure is what causes you to learn and grow, and hopefully become better!!

I'm actually going to be printing some of these with the VanDyke and Cyanotype processes. I also have some 3200 film that I need to develop. Hopefully those will look cooler. Guess I'll find out. I was going to do it today, but since I have to work today, I didn't feel like standing up for hours. I'll wait for another day.

July 4th...

So I meant to post these FOREVER ago. This summer I kind of took a break from blogging. Not that I'm a huge blogger, but it was mostly just a summer of healing and dealing with stuff. I didn't do a lot. I didn't do anything exciting, but it was nice. The family drama was still there, but I think we're learning to deal with it better. We're just resigned to the fact that this is our life now. It's just going to be this way, and if it gets better...than super!!

On July 4th, we didn't do a whole lot. We were all just kind of bummed out. But I bought some sparklers so that I could do some light painting with Jake and Jaynie. Here are some of our pictures. The first ones are of us trying to figure out what we are doing!

I was trying to use a heart filter, this is the only time it worked

This was a lot of fun. I only wish I had bought the huge sparklers!!

Thailand: Part VI~the floating market

So, I haven't posted at all really. I need to get back in the swing of things and use my blog. Since, I'm stuck at school in between classes, I've decided that when I'm not doing homework or in the darkroom, I'll blog. I have a lot of stuff to catch up on. I have pictures from all summer, personal and photoshoot stuff. But until I get that stuff edited, here is some more Thailand pictures. I'm almost done posting my trip photo's (two years later). Here are the ones from the floating market. It was really touristy, but still fun.

These poor dogs had mange. They were so sick. At the temple you can buy food to feed to the fish. It helps your karma, but Mem and Noc decided to feed the dogs instead. Poor things.

The next Thailand post is also the last. But it ends at the beach!! Yay for the beach!