Oh the beauty and simplicity of a film camera. My mom talks of how my grandpa captured moments of their lives with his cameras that line my shelves. She did the same with us with the camera I now shoot with, Canon A-1. The kit lens for this camera was the 50mm, I have yet to change it. The most challenging part is shooting without an auto focus, as silly as that may sound. I have yet to be brave to shoot on anything but auto, the meter is broken and has been since I took it into my possession. The auto produces beautiful results. Since I bought film for our outdoor trips, I stuck with ISO 200 so there wouldn't be too much grain. The grain that is seen in these scans is perfection! These scans were processed at Walgreens (I am a high spender), and are actually awful scans but they look great on the internet. The prints turned out great in 4x6 size. My next processing will be down at National Camera. Once I finish off this silly I will be buying pro from a local lab and processing through them.
This blog post is full of photos from our 2011 trip to the Boundary Waters. B and his family have been going there since he was tiny. It is one of the entrance lakes. We can take a tiny motor into and we stay on one of the few campsites. It is beautiful, quiet, away from cellphone service. We fish, I read, and swim. This year some friends of my in-laws rented a cabin and one day we decided to portage (carry canoes, walk and canoe again) to a water fall. We eat fish over fire, and go to the bathroom in the back woods (pictured below). The last picture is our pup, who had to stay home. Dogs are allowed but you have to pick up after them, no fun.
We just returned from our summer weekend trip and I have a camera loaded with film ready to be developed. I can not wait to see what turned out and what didn't from our adventures. As I have been mulling it over, I think I am going to capture most of our babes life in film. The color, crispness, quality and simplicity is incomparable to digital (shhh… don't tell anyone I said this). Hopefully this passion of mine will not be forgotten in the chaos of life!
