uncle tommy herman's farm

the old farm house at my great uncle tommy and aunt dorothy's farm. they built a new house up on the hill, and continued to use this one for sometime after. i believe when their kids visited, for the grandchildren to sleep and play in.

and then all of a sudden it went from being old to being uninhabitable.

the sheds and out buildings were amazing, full of old parts, lots of machines and half assembled farm tools. this particular shed was leaning pretty far to one side, and then wedged up by a huge piece of lumber on the outside.
the kitchen. the entire floor caved in.

eventually i passed off my digital camera to my mom so that i could take some film on my medium format. still waiting to get those developed (fingers crossed that they turn out).

NH wedding polaroids

anna and all the baking supplies. she was wedged in there.
drivin'
ok, seriously. i need to start checking these after i scan them. the scanning is partly for this blog, but is also for archival purposes. these polaroids start breaking down in the humidity, and there's no guarantee that they will stay this awesome.
handsome men poolside

brandyn has trouble standing still right now.

i'm really loving my polaroid film right now. it's temperamental, especially the impossible project sx-70 film, but i love watching it change over time. knowing, and letting go of the fact that it won't be perfect.

just enjoy the moment of its creation.

can you tell that i'm trying to bring that philosophy into my everyday life?

a little bit too little time

i have a backlog of two weeks worth of traveling photos.

uncle tommy and aunt dorothy's old farm house.

fourth of july with my family at the cabin.

drive to the east coast with katie and mike.

baking in a cottage in the woods for a 160 people.

wedding of dear friends.

mountains.

rolls of film to be developed.

polaroids to be scanned.

digital photos to be sorted, and toyed with.

so until all of that happens and i decide what i want to share here,

a taste.

my great uncle tommy and aunt dorothy's old farm house as seen thru the double camera, twin reflex:

glow

little river. he held soooooo still for me, and only 3 yrs old, hence the very serious look.
my little monkey of a cousin, meadow.

all the kids were given glowing wrist bands when we went into the field to shoot off fireworks.

if only i had a tripod, i could have done even more of these, but the light was just too low after full dark settled.

wedding weekend polaroids

how the world looks to doug before the first cup of coffee, blurry and slightly off kilter.

then again that could just be my ability to keep my hand steady and scan correctly

dinner party in the yard

after the storm

post almost tornado, the sky was impossible colors of green, purple and yellow.

and while it was still raining, and i couldn't take my camera outside, a beautiful fully arched rainbow.

sometimes the universe has a way of showing you that everything will turn out beautifully, after the crazy chaos of it all.

sad brad smith

night time and the new camera

ghost polaroids

i'm not sure what combination of temperature and light made these turn out this way.

ah, the joys of experimental film material!

totally appropriate though, as both structures were abandoned and over grown.

my new farm

an abandoned log farm house. yes please.
it may need some renovations. then again, this use to be the chicken coop.
the old barn, one of three out buildings that i fell in love with.
i'm not sure if this was another house on the property, or a storage building.

another thing that i loved about this property, the fact that you could see lake michigan across the neighbors fields. farms and rolling hills next to the lake? without a whole bunch of vacation properties in between?!!?!?

unfortunately there will be no medium format film shots of this place, i dropped my trusty twin lens camera about an hour before this and it fell apart. very sad, but hopefully the camera can be fixed and i will pass by this farm again.

it's for sale. but where is my little secret...

recent polaroids

new polaroid film for the sx-70, courtesy of the impossible project. still semi-experimental, but i am so happy that there are people trying to resurrect old film process', rather then letting them die off.

polaroid land camera with fuji b&w film. downtown, out the window of the makeup school.

old stock polaroid 690. wilhemina, my car, ready to take me on adventures, or at the very least into the suburbs for work.

fuji b&w on the land camera. katie's babies playin' at the beach.

the joys of using someone else's camera

katie has been nice enough to let me use her manual camera, so that i can take pictures during my family project that i know for certain will come out.

when she gave me the camera there was an old roll of film left in it that i finished off.

when it was developed, i found this. pictures from bowling in 2005.

hilarious and a fun surprise.

so, courtesy of k. lennard, me 5 yrs ago.

my grandfather

grandpa busche fixing the lawnmower someone else fixed wrong.

someday i hope to have my grandfather's hands: capable, strong, full of the knowledge of how to do things. they look like they have worked hard, there was always dirt or grease embedded in them, i love my grandpa and his hands.

film from the last month or two

the start of the family project, film