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.

Park Love (on film)

This will likely be my last post for the week, what with me having a bug the last couple days (bleh!), tonight being the first night of the Midpoint Music Festival, Amanda and Aaron coming in to stay with us for Midpoint, and then Antoine and I gearing up for our trip to Texas.  I don't think I've mentioned our Texas trip on here yet, but we'll be leaving shortly for our multi-city, seven day road trip around Texas.  Antoine is from Texas, but I've never been...even though I have some family there.  We're starting off in Austin for the Austin City Limits Festival, then heading down to San Antonio for a day just to relax, and then finishing up in the Dallas/Fort Worth area before we head back home.  Since we've got so many people to see and so much good music to listen to and good food to eat, it should be equal parts exhausting and fun!  Here's my Texas Pinterest board, in case you want to check it out and recommend something that I definitely need to check out that isn't on there.  I always love some travel tips and must-see recommendations!

In the mean time I'll leave you with my other roll of film that I recently got back.  This one is from about three and a half weeks ago when Antoine and I decided to get some take out and head to the park for a picnic, but instead we ended up going to three different parks!  While we were waiting for our Indian food, we headed up to Bellevue Park to check out the view... 

It was a little humid and hazy that day, but still beautiful.

With our delicious Indian food in hand we made our way to Alms Park to have our picnic and snap some pictures.  I've already expressed my new-found love for Alms park and my digital photos here, but here are some film ones I took.  [Again, I'm so lucky to have Antoine who's willing to lug around my extra camera for me and wait for me to take all these silly pictures I take!]

 Then we headed of to Ault Park for a leisure walk (and so I could geek out over all the flowers still in bloom and the beautiful light making its way out of the park).

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!  I'll be enjoying a bunch of awesome music with some of my most favorite people, what could be better than that?!

July on Film

I recently had two rolls of film developed and processed; one roll was from our recent trip to Alms and Ault Park, and then this one was of random snippets from the month of July.

My most favorite tree in Pleasant Ridge, a Kwanzan flowering cherry tree at the end of Grand Vista Ave.

A peony from our backyard / our rose of Sharon tree

A brief trip to Lunken Airport, though I didn't get to go inside.

More bumble bee infatuation

Blueberry picking is one of my favorite things to do in the summertime!

Another shot of the view from our B&B in Amish Country

French Park (on film)

Happy May everyone!  In honor of the beginning of one of my favorite months here's the last of my 35mm film photos.  Like the cute photos of Cheesy, these were taken at French Park.  I think this batch really captures the essence of Spring, budding flowers, bumble bees and, of course, blooming magnolias and cherry blossoms.  

First a little bit about French Park.  It is a really great spot to hike, explore, or enjoy a picnic and it's right in my neighborhood, which makes it even better!  However, Antoine and I haven't spent as much time there as we probably should considering it's so close.  But we're going to try to fix that this summer, especially since it's a dog friendly park (hello, summer-time picnics and mini-hikes in our future!).

I was so happy with how this roll of film turned out!  Between these and the oh-so-cute photos of Cheese, I'm smitten!  Stay tuned later this week for a mini restaurant review and a weekend update!