We were excited to return to Anguilla in January, our first visit since Hurricane Irma struck in September of 2017. Irma was a Category 5 hurricane, bringing wind speeds of 185 mph, with gusts up to 218 mph. The storm damaged 90 percent of the government buildings, including the hospital, schools, airport, and ferry terminal. The island’s infrastructure was heavily damaged, leaving the island without electricity, telephone, and internet. The island’s recovery was incredible, a testament to the determination of the Anguillan people. Enjoy these images from our January visit, showing that Anguilla is back, and better than ever. This was our fifth trip to Anguilla, and I shot nearly…
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I have been a member of the North American Travel Journalists Association since 2016, and am honored to be recognized again this year, this time for an image featured on Film Road Trip. This image was taken at Buffalo Trace Distillery in April of 2018, shot on the Mamiya 645 Pro TL with the Mamiya 80mm f/1.9 lens on Fuji Pro 400H film. Many thanks to the judges and please take some time to admire the work of all those receiving awards and recognition on the NATJA website. For more images from our trip to the distilleries along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, click here, and for images from the spring…
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Photographers, particularly film photographers whose work is rarely “instant,” may find using Instagram to be cumbersome. It is generally thought that you have to scan or process your image, send it to your phone, and then use your phone to post it to your Instagram account. I saw this recently in one of the Facebook groups I follow, so I offered to do a brief post on how I post to Instagram from Lightroom. Posting to Instagram from Lightroom is easy with a plugin called “LRInstagram,” which can be found here: LRInstagram I am not in any way affiliated with the producers of this plugin and receive nothing by way…
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Film lovers have been pretty excited with the re-release of Kodak’s Ektachrome, and have been anxiously awaiting their shipments to give it a try. I placed an order as soon as the FIND lab started taking orders and received five rolls in the first shipment. The day job delayed shooting a bit, but work took me to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and I finished my roll of Ektar which was in the camera and then shot a roll of Ektachrome. Here are the results. Let me preface this by saying that there is no science or technical expertise in this comparison. I am not in any way an expert in comparing cameras,…
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A couple of years ago, there was a story about Kodak’s CEO, Jeff Clarke’s unique business card, a strip of film with his contact information. When my supply of promotional key chains for my Caribbean travel website, My Irie Time, ran out, it was time to find a replacement, and I chose one to reflect my dedication to film. So I turned to Kodak’s Film Strip Creator and put together my own “business card” for My Irie Time and Film Road Trip. Kodak Film Strip Creator puts your information on a genuine piece of Kodak print film. Because they are created on movie film, they are smaller than your 35mm…
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Listening to my favorite film photography podcasts, I occasionally hear of people creating zines, essentially simple magazine-style booklets of their photographs to share with others. Coming off a Labor Day trip to San Francisco, I had a good set of photographs of Chinatown, which I thought would make a nice collection, so I made my first zine! I used Blurb Books to create it. I am quite familiar with Blurb and use the Lightroom to Blurb book creator tool to create photo books of family trips. Sadly, that book creation tool in Lightroom, does not work to create magazines, so you have to use the Blurb BookWright application to lay…
