Easter Sunday Adventure
A lot of people have big family get-togethers to celebrate Easter. My parents and I always celebrated with a ham “dinner” (lunch) together, which is really special, because the three of us are the full-time work or school eat-on-the-run types. It’s nice to have holidays like Easter to just enjoy being home together – so it was a great time to be home from Seattle.
I’m an only child and our extended family is spread all over Michigan, so I would usually walk over to a neighbor’s house for someone to play with after our family meal. Well we’re all grown up now and spread across the country! So I was really happy that my friend Kelly wanted to come visit & take photos with film cameras. In a lot of ways it was just like what I used to do with my best friend growing up on Easter Sunday: go exploring outside, and bring along a lot of imagination.
When thinking of where in all of Petoskey I wanted to take Kelly, I thought of a place my Dad took me to five years ago to photograph. It goes along the railroad tracks, and has lots of random abandoned things… a photographer’s favorite subject! I was shooting with E6 film that amazingly expired even before then, back in 2002! It was processed in C-41 chemistry to produce cross-processed colors. These are 35mm half frames, scanned as if they were a single negative.
By this point in our walk we had stopped at K-Mart for more film (didn’t want the fun to end) and headed in the opposite direction: along the Bear River towards the waterfront. This is another path I used to take with my parents, but it didn’t used to be an official / paved trail. Things looked the same and yet different. The Mitchell Street Bridge area always makes me feel connected to my Gregory family because we used to have reunions down there. These are regular C-41, dedicated to my aunts Fay & Shelley.
