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Portland, OR
Our honeymoon trip down the northern Pacific Coast ended with a couple nights in Portland, OR. We treated ourselves to a very fancy stay at the Riverside Kimpton Hotel (because they have room service) and had a wonderful time (ordering room service) and exploring a bit of Portland’s downtown and Washington Park. We didn’t taste…
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Oregon + NorCal Honeymoon
In August we drove south from Canada into the States to spend some time camping in California’s Del Norte Redwoods National Park and Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park. Both regions are protected parks due to their unique and spectacular natural beauty and ecological diversity, and I cannot recommend visiting them enough. We snapped some great…
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Stanley Park in Winter
It looks just like Stanley Park in summer! Especially in black and white. With grievous ignorance we decided to drive to Stanley Park via Davie Street on the same day as the Vancouver Polar Bear Swim. Hundreds of shivering, barefoot, bathing-suite-clad, Vancouverites flooded the City’s streets after their freezing cold dips in the Pacific Ocean…
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Turquoise Lomography
LomoChrome works best when used in natural settings, such as forests and gardens. After buying a 3-pack of some different LomoChrome colors, I found that the turquoise was my favorite when used to capture the surrounding flora. [Taken September 2023]
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Burrard Bridge at Night
As seen in many a Canadian car commercial the Burrard Bridge connects Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighborhood and Davie Village. It’s a beautiful old bridge with bygone architecture, (electric) colorful torches, large walkways and bike lanes, and a great view of Granville Island to the east, and the North Shore mountains to the northwest. We walked along…
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Chaotic Captures #2
[Taken March – September 2023]
Amateur Film Photography Blog
Why Film Photography?
I had been interested in film photography for a few years before I picked up an older camera to try my hand at it.
As an archivist by trade, and someone who was (shock) alive in the 1990’s, I’m no stranger to analog prints, negatives, slides, daguerreotypes, you name it. But I wasn’t taking any photos myself. As a child, it was always my father who picked up our bulky old film camera to take family photos of my siblings and I while we stood on our front porch or posed at a Mount Saint Helen’s lookout point. If my father wasn’t taking film photos, he was hauling around a monstrous VHS video camera on his shoulder. As an archivist, I’m often handling film photographs that were taken by professional photographers, sometimes long dead, named or unnamed in the historical record. What I love about handling film photographs are the striking colors, the satisfaction of holding physical objects, and the variety in physical mediums (my favorite is slide film right out of the carousel).
So I decided I needed to get my hands on a camera and a roll of film to create something on my own. Why not? Film photography has seen a sharp rise in popularity in the past 10 years. It’s not a cheap hobby, but it’s not obsolete! Instead of rushing into a purchase, I was lucky enough to be gifted a Japanese 1991 Ricoh RZ-800 by my in-laws for Christmas 2021, and was able to take some photos of a rare occurrence: snow in Vancouver, BC.
Since then I’ve purchased a Kodak Retina IIIC camera, burned through various disposable cameras, and tried my hand at developing and scanning my own film. I’m learning with each roll.
Jules A.
Hobbyist Amateur Film Photographer
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