White Family

I photographed this family last year, about Christmas time. I was out to shoot her brother's wedding and she said– well since your here why not take some pictures of us? I said why not. Then pretty soon everybody said why not! and then we were out back capturing light in my box. 

They were quite the delight. He's a drama teacher and she's a mom. She worked in the costume design, closet/worshop/thingy at BYU-Idaho. And their kids are children, which is the best kind of human. Enjoy.

My uncle Ed and my aunt Marie. Ed is the brother of my mother. We visited last month. He showed me his vast collection of pedal bikes, scattered through his house, garage, and many nicely assembled along one enormous wall. He and his youngest, Trevor, enjoying "digging", intense downhill riding on their Ellsworth's. Plus, they grow some mighty fine peaches. 

Milo Simons

Milo Simons is the newest member of my family. My sister-in-law, Rachael, asked me if I could take some photographs of the boy a couple months ago. I could not, for I was not available due to the great distance between us. But just last week my family rendezvoused in Milo's abode in Lehi and from there vacationed down to St. George, hence the distance gap between us lessened and so I became available to photograph the boy. I photogaphed Milo, and these are the results. 

I enjoy this look. I mellow the blacks and highlights, and add I certain tint with white balance adjustments. This one has a green tint. 

The delights of outsourcing my negative scanning– the scanners rarely get all the photos cropped correctly– notice the large vertical bar. Its these kind of things that make me love film photography. 

We drove down to a nearby nature park and sauntered down the trails till we found the appropriate spot. We chose a nice shady spot near the creek. It was a good spot, but it seems that it may have been too dark, or that I had my shutter speed down too low. I did what I could but they still have a lot of black in them, but I like the way they came out: the serendipitous delights of film. We changed location and the second set came out noticeably brighter. This is my first shoot focusing on a newborn, I hope you enjoy it. 

All of these captured by my Nikkormat FT through my 50mm prime 1.4 lens on 35mm Kodak Gold 200 film.