Lighthouse Park might be one of my favourite spots. It offers a diversity in landscape with different textures, different scenery, and different kinds of light. It's got a lot of possibilities for shooting and many quintessential west-coast-isms in one spot.

...aka boudoir. Definitely NSFW.

I had the total pleasure of photographing this unreal woman, and I'm so totally obsessed with her through-and-through femininity. It was the first thing I noticed about her - she is unapologetically feminine. And I love those who are totally unapologetic about who they are. 

Oh wow - guys I have been seriously buried in work the last few days. I absolutely hate being behind and I will work day and night to catch up...which is what I'm doing right now, and that's why it's 9PM on a Saturday and I'm still working, haha! But I have to post because I can't leave my lonely Blog, and friends, behind! I missed Film Friday yesterday which I feel awful about, so I need to update like, ASAP!

"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself." - Erich Fromm,

The craziness of the past few months has afforded me many pieces of wisdom which I don't think I could have learned any other way but the hard way. Everything in life goes in cycles and, I am feeling the need for some personal growth.

As I go through my negatives and recent scans, I also shot a test roll on my Canon 1V and had it developed and scanned at a local film lab. We have a bag of film that has been sitting in our freezer for a while - mostly some old Konica VX 100, but there are a few rolls of Kodak Ektar, TriX, and then a bunch of expired rolls (expired film - another blog update to come). 

I was recently reminded of something I just never thought would be a thing again: film.

Some background:

Like many of you who took classes in Photography, I started by shooting film on fully manual, heavy and clunky-as-hell metal cameras with, you know it, a fixed 50mm lenses. Pentax K-1000 anyone?

Organized by friends Anna and Yoel, a group of about 20 of us (mostly photographers, makeup artists, and their friends and/or family) took a day trip to Saona Island. To get there, we took a Catamaran from Bayahibe;