Film Swap!
Every summer my husband’s cousins on one side of the family – spread across Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan - get together for a long weekend at a location somewhere in the middle. This year’s trip was planned for Munising: a small town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, just outside of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Lake Superior. Thinking back to past get-togethers, I remembered that our cousin Joseph Leadley had used film cameras. And since my new local lab can process 35mm C-41, I thought, “this is the perfect opportunity to do a film swap!”
Analog Road Trip
Travel and film photography are a perfect match for me. Ever since I came home from Machu Picchu with amazing Lomochrome purple images I have been excited about the opportunities that film holds for reinventing travel photography. Instead of trying to replicate on film the already perfect digital images available on every travel website I use my cameras and film to seek a unique perspective on my destination.
In July I took a brief but glorious road trip through the Badlands, Black Hills and part of Montana.