Fall on Film

Happy new year everyone!  My new year celebration was pretty mellow since I've never been a big new years person.  Antoine and I just lounged around and ate some homemade flan.  I spent most of my new years day off from work baking like a crazy person, because that's what I do!  Anyway, back to 35mm film...

Along with the roll of black & white I had developed, I also took in an ancient color roll with 36 exposures on it.  I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out, but I'm pretty pleased.  It's basically a hodgepodge of Fall pictures, some from Spring Grove Cemetery, some from French Park and some from Wellington, OH.

The ginkgo trees at Spring Grove.

Can you tell I have a thing for French Park?

Cheese's "Elvis" face!

Handsome man!

Mohican State Park.

One of the many fantastic old houses in Wellington.

These photos make me miss Fall.  I've hated this in-between weather we've been having lately.  I, unlike a lot of people out there, love the snow, so I'm very pleased to see the flakes falling this morning.  Stay safe and warm out there!

Experimenting with Film (Black & White Edition)

A while back, probably a good three months by now, Antoine and I woke up early one Saturday morning and, struck by how gorgeous it was outside and having an unreasonable amount of energy for us first thing in the morning, we decided to take Cheese to French Park for a walk.  With the beautiful sun shining down and the dew on the grass I decided to grab my film camera and loaded it with some black & white film my sister had given me.  I've never shot with black & white film before, but I figured what the heck and gave it a shot.  The finished product isn't anything to write home about, but it was a fun little experiment for me and taught me a couple things.

This one and the next one are my favorites of the batch.  I love all the little droplets of water shimmering in the sunlight.

I can never resist snapping a photo or two of this guy!  He's just so handsome.