Summer is finally here on the coast!
So, I think I’m going to try & introduce something called Film Fridays, where I post some personal film work for fun. This one is from my roadtrip in Northern California & like I’ve said before, I terribly miss it here. I have recently had an obsession with camping, and my goal is to go camping in these woods someday soon. <3
Hope you all have a good weekend — go & do something that is inspiring!
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I couldn’t send you off to your weekend without more lovely b&w image goodness. Have a good one!
(P.S. The Mission in North Park has pretty darn good coffee)
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Oh, wow. I recently picked up some rolls of film that I shot over the past few months, even a roll from a few years ago, and I am blown away by what came back. I love, love, love the black and white images I shot with my Hasselblad, they make me so happy! You just don’t get this kind of gorgeousness from digital — especially black and white images.
And yes, I know wedding & engagement shoots have been lacking on here — it’s just so much easier for me to blog film images because they are scanned when they are processed, and all I have to do is resize and upload to blog it. There’s no retouching, no fine editing — plus there’s way less images to select from! But I am still shooting lots of sessions and I do intend to blog many of them. :)
“Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.”
- John Keats
The image above is a very happy accident — when I got the roll of film, I did not except the lovely color cast that appeared in this image. Shooting with old film is quite fun :)
Things have been very busy lately, and I have been shooting much more film lately, but I haven’t been able to develop anything until recently. I will hopefully be able to post more as time comes along, but for now, here are a few, along with a few things that have been inspiring me lately. :)
+ I want a woolly pocket! (They sell these at Pigment in North Park) :)
+ A little behind on the Easter posts, but I love these darling decorated eggs!
+ Another lovely Easter post, with beautiful polaroids and charming hand drawn menu :)
+ Love this post, especially the clock, TLR’s and last image :)
+ Quite possibly the cutest wedding photobooth ever! (With DIY tutorial link)
+ Loving all these items for jetsetting in style. Especially that suitcase. Want.
+ The cutest chalkboard fridge :)
+ I can watch this video over and over again (gotta love Elijah Wood & Shirley Manson)
+ This statement is fact.
And to leave you for today, a quote from a recent blogpost about journeys by the talented Jason Mraz:
…definitely don’t think you can swim faster than the current: don’t be a “try-hard.”
This is a term I heard used in the open-mic circuit for those who are trying so hard to make it they forget to enjoy it. The stress and the need for perfection is a distraction from the beauty, uncertainty, and finality of every moment. It’s never about the destination anyway. It’s about the brave lifestyle one leads in getting there.
Go, and lead a brave lifestyle. :)
(P.S. Speaking of brave, I still have to finish all my blogs about my roadtrip. Like I touched on before, this next portion is really quite difficult for me to put together because it is so personal to me. But I will try.)
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It’s where I grew up and so far, until now, I have never been able to call any other place ‘home.’ Except maybe now.
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I am glad we are a part of each other’s lives <3 Happy birthday!
(Polaroid weekend is coming back tomorrow!)
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I just love flea markets. The gems, and the fun things you find, not to mention all the stories that come with it that you will probably never know about. It’s fun to imagine who enjoyed them first though, and the life the item lead before it met you :)
(I wish I bought that photo album at the top, but I really didn’t *need* it — although I really just love love that bottom middle image in the album. And I really wish I had bought the Graphic Graflex Photography book, seeing as I have one of those cameras, and it would be immensely helpful! Oh well)
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This image makes me giggle. You can almost hear what these guys are thinking! ;)
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It’s definitely our favorite season :)
taken somewhere along i-5 on the way back down to san diego.
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It’s interesting sometimes, how life operates. You may take one path thinking that it’s the right path for you, with goals set in mind and a very specific end result. However, it might end up that the real reason for taking this path is actually for you to discover that this path you thought was right — actually isn’t. Through that first path, you realize that it isn’t meant for you. At first it’s a bit upsetting, you might think that you’ve failed at what you originally set out to do. But in reality, it’s just meant to set you down a different path — one that was truly meant for you. So in that sense, it wasn’t a failure, just because you didn’t reach your goal. It just wasn’t meant to go where you thought it was.
And because of this, we have to expect delays. Cause the right path is often not the straight & direct one.
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(Apologies if that paragraph above is a bit confusing to follow. It was written more for my own benefit than anything else)
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