I have always loved FILM. I started out in photography shooting film. I used to develop my own film in the darkroom. I used to print my own black & white and color film. I used to bulk roll my own film. My heart has always loved film and I have missed so many things about it. Well, my friend JTori came by for a visit while dropping of film at the new Richard Photo Lab in Valencia, and it got me thinking about my Mamiya 645 PRO Medium Format Camera (I used to shoot on a gorgeous little Hasselblad but he’s long gone) that I bought brand spanking new right before moving out here to Cali that has not seen the light of day in about 18 years. Only had a handful of rolls of film had ever been run through it. I decided to dig it out and try out a roll at a recent session of Miss Julia. She is one of my 2016 TR Models from Hart High School and she is just the sweetest thing. We did this quick little shoot with this incredible red dress and as soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to shoot it right outside my studio on this ivy covered wall. The film I shot on was Fuji 400H that EXPIRED over 15 years ago. I had no idea when I dropped it off to the lab if there would be anything salvageable or not. No idea if one or two or no pics would turn out. The batteries still had a little juice in them but things just weren’t working quite right and the shutter wasn’t firing as it should.

Thank you so much Julia for this awesome day and for giving me a little bit of my original passion back. I have missed the wait and the anticipation. You’d drop off the film at the lab, wait, and then when you pick it up a few days later you would get to see what you’d created for the first time. There was no instant gratification (which can be both a blessing and a curse). BUT…. when I got these scans of the photoshoot back, I just about died. I am obsessed with them. I am so happy with how they turned out. It’s everything I have missed about film. So pretty, so grainy, so authentic, so… FILM!! So here you go.. this is the entire roll I shot (it’s medium format so there is only 15 exposures). I have done ZERO in Photoshop. No color adjustments, retouching, editing, NOTHING. It’s raw and real. I think each one is so gorgeous and I am just in love with them. I now want to shoot so much MORE FILM!!!