december fog

monochromatic march

overdeveloped at home: part 2

overdeveloped at home: part 1

first roll: minolta x700, part 2

first roll: minolta x700, part 1

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things i love thursday

• Foggy mornings.  Have I said it before?  Maybe.  Will I say it many times again?  Definitely.
• Things built around nature, rather than in place of it.  Maybe a bit idealistic, but I just love to see things built that way...my neighbor has trees growing through their deck, FallingWater's got a waterfall running through it...things like that are cool.
• goodreads.com...I only just made an account, but I'm adding books I've read to my "shelves" and hopefully the next time I go used book shopping, I have a list of relevant things to look for!
• Citrusy desserts...like lemon bars and key lime pie and all that delicious, bright, happy stuff
• shooting film again...I'm on my third roll with the Yashica TLR and as soon as the lens arrives I'll be loading a test roll into my Minolta X700, possibly trying to shoot the whole thing this weekend when I meet up with Porter! 

january monochrome

home developing

lately

baby kaleigh

Yesterday, I finally got to meet my 7 month old second cousin and had the opportunity to take a few photos of her.  I'm trying to take more photos of people and I found out that babies are pretty fun to photograph.
A few of the photos are with my 87 year old grandmother who is growing frailer by the day.  The photos of her with the baby strike up a strong emotional response for me that makes them almost hard to look at, but at the same time, it's hard to look away.  Just something I've got to learn to deal with, I guess.
I converted the pictures to black and white partly as a result of the way I feel about the ones with my grandmother and partly because I think it enhances the photos by removing the distraction of rogue colors.  Many of the photos are noticeably grainy because I was shooting at a high ISO.  Even at f1.8 I had to crank up the sensitivity cause babies just don't want to sit still!