Words and Light

Jeff and I visited my brother and his family in the Bay Area last month, marking my first entry to California since I was 11 months old. We spent a full week gallivanting, wining, dining and adventuring with various combinations of my brother, sister-in-law, niece, nephew and old friends. And, of course, we brought cameras.

I took my 5DII strictly for the kids — Layla is a very active toddler, while Henry is a very active crawler/soon-to-be walker — and my Pentax 6×7 for everything else. Along with 18 rolls of film (12 of which I used), I brought a new-to-me toy: A Sekonic L-508 meter, which I happened to misuse for the entire trip. (One day, I accidentally kept the meter set for spot when I wanted incident, and I looked through the wrong lens/side for spot-metering the entire trip. The good news: Now I know better, and all my mistakes only meant I was overexposing the film, which is not a terrible thing.)

I’ll break up the film blog posts by topic, and will soon share the digital photos of the kids. First off, the city of San Francisco:

© 2016. Grant Avenue in Chinatown. Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Portra 160+1.

© 2016. Grant Avenue in Chinatown. Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Portra 160+1.

© 2016. Grant Avenue in Chinatown. Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Portra 160+1.

© 2016. Looking west down Filbert Street from Telegraph Hill. Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Portra 160+1.

© 2016. The Mission District. Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Portra 160+1.

© 2016. Mission Dolores Park. Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Portra 160+1.

© 2016. Mission Dolores Park. Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Portra 160+1.

© 2016. The Painted Ladies from Alamo Square. Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Portra 160+1.

Check back for more blog posts over the next few days!

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