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Chaotic Captures #1
[Taken September-November 2022]
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Alouette Lake, Golden Ears Part 2
Part 2 of the Gold Creek Campground and Alouette Lake trip featuring some black and white film. I feel that nature looks better in full color, but these shots might just outshine their colorful counterparts with their unique contrasts and interesting light leaks. [Taken August 2022]
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Alouette Lake, Golden Ears Part 1
We went camping near Alouette Lake at the Golden Ears campgrounds during a very hot weekend in B.C.’s Lower Mainland in the height of summer 2022. High summer is my favorite time to camp because I get unbearably cold at night in tents, no matter how much outrageously-priced sleep gear I have purchased over the…
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England Looks in No Way Like Southern California
The summer of 2022 felt like the beginning-of-the-end of the Covid-19 era. Large gatherings were allowed, people were seeing friends and family again, and travelers picked up their suitcases and jetted off to their long-awaited destinations. If, like us, you were around the age where everyone you knew was getting married, then 2022 was the…
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Purple Mountains
My approach to camping in BC is to never reserve too far in advance. I hate the queues, the website crashes, and I lack the foresight to plan that far ahead. My method is… 1) Check the BC camping reservation website religiously about 3 weeks before we want to get outdoors. 2) Book the first…
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Walking Around Kitsilano
Capturing the first warm rays of sun and the lush trees and flowers in typically rainy Vancouver, BC. [Taken May 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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