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Easter Sunday Adventure

admin — Sat, 14 May 2011 07:38:26 +0000

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.

Bridal Shower #2

admin — Tue, 03 May 2011 06:19:40 +0000

On to my second bridal shower! (see previous blog if you missed the first installment). Hosted by my mom, Julie, and aunt Jennifer, this shower was located at the historic Terrace Inn in the Bay View neighborhood of my hometown – Petoskey, MI.

I am skipping ahead a day, but in between showers (Easter Sunday), my friend Kelly and I shot a bunch of film. I ended in the middle of a roll on my new/old half-frame camera, so decided to bring it along to this shower – it’s so tiny and convenient compared to my digital. Well, I had only used the camera once before this trip, so I hadn’t discovered how touchy the focus is. When it says ‘portrait’, it means, you better be right up in the person’s face!

Despite the soft focus on some of these, I’m really quite fond of the ones that turned out. [Kodak] film has such a warmth to it – no color adjustments necessary.

There’s something about Northern MI that makes you want to just sit down and relax

The curtains and chandeliers in this room were stunning. I loved seeing our wedding colors together for the first time via the table decorations! (and cake my friend Jenny made, which I will hopefully get a better photo of)

This cracked me up. Both shower hosts thought of having a “guess-the-number-of-coffee-beans” game, I guess everyone associates Seattle with coffee

We played another game out back in which we had to toss the bouquet the farthest (I need a lot of practice).

I’ve known these three ladies since grade school, I feel really lucky to have seen them all together again!

Kloee, grand-daughter of my childhood babysitter, was so cute during the shower. I guess she thought it was a birthday party because she kept singing ‘happy birthday’ and trying to blow out the Christmas lights (as if they were candles)!

At least I know everyone else had their cameras because there were so many other great people in attendance at my bridal showers – but as a bride-to-be I have to set down mine every once in awhile. Don’t forget to e-mail me your pics

Happy 2010!

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:12:31 +0000

Well hello there new decade! It’s been awhile since I’ve updated – and for once it was not my fault (server upgrades). Unfortunately the majority of my comments got deleted somewhere along the line. Maybe my faithful followers will leave me new ones

I got to spend two-and-a-half weeks back in my home mitten state. I spent a few days with my boyfriend’s family in the SE, a few days in Grand Rapids (yay Flickr friends!), and a ton of days relaxing in Petoskey!

I’m back in rainy Seattle now… no complaints from this snow-hater
I’m happy to report that Joel and I have acquired an amazing apartment to move into next month, some great IKEA furniture, and I even started working again! Photography is an expensive little endeavor, as was college

Well, then again, snow is great for one thing… photographs! Here are my favorites from over the holidays:

Hilary’s Jewelry

admin — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:10:36 +0000

Transition from Hilary Koster as model to artist! Hilary’s jewelry has a unique style combining her two loves: crochet and metals. Be sure to stop by her shop on Etsy!

Adrienne Esford is wearing some of her lovely earrings, necklace, bracelet & rings. Who says you can’t take a model downtown Petoskey during tourist season on a busy holiday?

Memorial Day Weekend: Petoskey, MI

admin — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:05:48 +0000

I went up north to see the folks over the holiday weekend (Dad’s birthday!).

One of the fun things we did together was take a walk along where they have paved a path from Magnus park over towards Bay Harbor:Â which has always been one of the most picturesque areas of the bay (beautiful, natural cliffs).

This particular area was also where trains used to run “back in the day”.Â Here’s one of the original markers:

… and just for my own amusement, here’s my baby cons back home