Family Portraits on the Boise River

July 30, 2026 in FILM, PORTRAITS

Family Portraits in Boise with photographer Ashley Thalman

16 Frames That Helped Me Feel Better

May 20, 2026 in FILM, THOUGHTS & SHARES

Behold the joy-pill that is picture making on a grumpy April Saturday with a roll of medium format film.

man wearing brown supreme pigment hat in front of lilacs and trees

man and woman arrange lilacs on grass with dandelions, Chinese elm and lilacs

film grain kodak gold 200 greens sillouette

girl covers face blue shirt with lilacs and teal french manicure

film portrait of man in cardigan, hat, glasses against lilac bush and blue sky

fiddle fig, arch silver lamp, goldendoodle, fireplace

dappled light at golden hour on medium format kodak gold film

FILM NOTES

Film & Developing Notes: Kodak Gold 200 box rated, no push

Scanner: Frontier

Backdrop: Custom Ultraviolet Backdrops

Camera: Pentax 645n with a 75 mm lens.

Film Lab, The Find Lab in Salt Lake City

Lemme See with Milan: Anger in the Orchard

February 05, 2026 in SEEN SESSIONS, PORTRAITS, FILM

“I’m so angry right now.”

Behind the Scenes on Film- Luxury Workshop Retreat Storytelling for Nicole Chapman

February 04, 2026 in ARTISTS, FILM, BEHIND THE SCENES ON FILM

For the building, creating, and instructional images I shot 35mm b&w (HP5) on the Pentax K1000. For completed installs, wearables, and photoshoots I shot medium format (Kodak Gold 200) on the Rolleiflex 6001. These mediums tell the story of the luxury florist. Alway working in a team sharing a vision, engineering a flow, pivoting, and troubleshooting their processes and environment to create an ephemeral experience and image.

Nicole integrated these behind the scene images into her sites beautifully. The mix of gritty process and polished editorial shots layered with Nicole’s affinity for textures are evocative of her style, the high key dry desert place, and the mood of her luxury retreat workshop.

close up film grain photo of kalidescope

Lemme See with Roma at Home

November 03, 2025 in SEEN SESSIONS, FILM, ARTISTS

Home as a creative place with Roma.

Sitting in the overgrowth of fennel, of Pioneer Day heat I agreed when she said, “I needed this.”

grainy film portrait of women with bracelets holding fennel

For all the digital pollution, content fatigue and ease of the smart phone dopamine seeking strobe-scroll affect of our time: photography is still special and rare.

grainy film portrait of woman in lace patterns with spiral earrings and tortishell glasses

To create images on film, let alone the black and white expired film used last summer, points to the ineffable, the transient, the chance. Film has boundaries. No, you don’t know what’s going to happen here. No, there’s not enough light for that. Yes, you have 16 frames on a roll. Yes, you’ll have a week to wait, anticipate, forget, and worry while the lab develops and scans your roll.

For all our trying and scheming and light metering chance gets in, creativity thrives in the parameters of its limitation, and how it all works (and doesn’t) is a mystery we don’t have language for. The images I can’t wait to see aren’t what they were in my head for, the pictures we thought

grainy banded film image shot with expired delta 3200 film

expired 3200 film portrait black and white grain woman

black and white grainy portrait of woman with lunaria dried silver dollar plant

Film notes:

Just 2 film stocks here: Kodak Gold 200 and Expired Delta 3200 shot on the Pentax 645n through a 75 mm lens.
Film developed and scanned by The Find Lab