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All British Car Show / Golden Ears
After multiple camping trips to Gold Creek Campground I have more than my fair share of nice shots taken at Golden Ears’ Alouette Lake. There’s just something about it that begs to be remembered on film! However, Golden Ears isn’t alone on this roll of film – I also got some great shots of an…
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Spring Has Sprung
A few shots taken at Porteau Cove and around Vancouver. [Taken May 2023]
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What’s More Canadian Than Maple Syrup?
I was a busy-bee shooting a lot of film in March 2023. This particular roll was shot at a family-owned Maple Syrup Farm called Breedon’s in rural Ontario, where they showed us how maple syrup was historically made using large cauldrons, and how it’s currently made using giant hi-tech machinery! The maple trees had to…
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Starring Kathy
It was snowing outside in Vancouver – a very special event – but I chose to stay inside and do a photo shoot with my cat and some re-purposed plant lights and flowers. [Taken March 2023]
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Cold Weather Excursions and Developing Film
The first roll of film I developed at home was originally shot in color using a brand I’ve long forgotten. I made the mistake of buying the newbie-friendly Paterson & Ilford Film Processing Kit in B&W to process my color photos, but I wasn’t about to exercise patience and not develop the film in front…
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At-Home Life
An artistic expression of my love taken at home featuring Kathy the Cat during her sleep-behind-the-toilet gremlin phase, my Kodak Retina IIIC, my partner and I, and some re-purposed roses. [Taken October 2022]
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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