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Film Portraits


This blog was supposed to be a space for me to record bird photography. But I also need a platform for sharing other photography I'm working on. It's presumptuous to have a website for photos when I could easily name scores of people that live within 5 miles of me that take better photos- bird or otherwise-than I do. But it's more personal. This is a place where I can curate my favourite photos. See how I grow in photography.  Record life growing around me.

This is my second roll of film (4th if you count the two rolls I didn't load properly). Taken with a Canon A1. Mostly 50mm and 100mm lenses. I decided to focus the entire roll on portraits of my kids so that I could practice on adorable but uncooperative subjects.
 




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