Film Swap!

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

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.