2014: Starts now!

A whirlwind 2013 holiday season and hopefully settles down to a brand new year 2014!

It didn't help that our family of four came down with varying degrees of cold/cough/fever but we are over the worst of it. Tyler and I finally got our flu shots today.

Lots of things to focus on like my usual knitting and photography amongst many things on my list. I developed a roll of film about a month ago and was pleasantly shocked to see that I double exposed the roll. So what we see is a mix of Kauai and California.

can you see the ocean view? rotate it.

Josh among some clouds.

Another Los Angeles/Kauai mish mash.

Pine cone/Spouting horn

That was fun although at the time I had no idea that this was happening but it is still kind of cool.

Another fun thing, was practice taking portraits. With babies & children & other people!! Normally I would be freaked out but luckily my models were very good friends which made it easier.

Canon A-1: Mammoth and Bishop

I had a couple of rolls developed from our trip to Mammoth during spring break.

I'm enjoying the process of taking my time, composing and focusing. It is very different than a digital camera, oranges and bananas. :)

I shot a roll at Fossil Falls but figured out that I didn't load the film correctly so those shots are non-existent. I have to make sure the film loads properly and that solves that.

I even learned by Googling how to retrieve the film leader from the rolled up film so I can use it and not have it wasted. I realized the film wasn't used after I rolled it up or at least I think so. We'll see because that roll is in the camera now so I either have pictures on there or some double exposures. Oh well, that's half the fun.

At the train depot.

Bishop

I challenged myself and brought on the film camera too. The weather was gorgeous and mild weather during the day & chilly temps at night.



Some the photos are from Laws Museum just outside of Bishop, CA. There is a railroad station, little town and mining area.

Lake Crowley

Bear Statue at Canyon

The weather was so nice and no crowds.

Canon A-1: first batch

Finally got my first roll of film developed using my Canon A-1. Definitely a learning curve but the pics that are focused are really nice. I even tried a couple of double exposures. :)

I already notice that I have to take my time to compose, focus and shoot. A tad different than than the DSLR which I still do those steps but I need to double check myself with film. So action shots and candids are not on the agenda yet.

Tyler

Tyler doesn't have as much patience with me & a camera so this is the best I have of him on this roll.

Tyler double exposed.

Or maybe this one where he is doing his best impression of a flower.

Joshua has more patience and more expressions...he is my muse. :)

Daily skateboarding session.

Walking home.

Heading to school.

Being silly.

Josh double exposed.

So those are my best from this roll although I did find & develop another roll from 2003-04 so I'll scan those later...