iPhone shot & processed

As I write this, I’m back home after a great trip of nothing but photography. It’s always nice to have a great finish, and today was more than I could have hoped for. An old church early this morning and two new road signs I’ve never stopped to photograph. Finding a small local coffee shop with outstanding coffee and veggie breakfast burritos made for a damn near perfect day.

iPhone shots again today, since they’re quick to edit and post. I’ve just downloaded my pictures to hard drives and am starting the Lightroom edits. Tomorrow or the next day, I’m hoping to develop the film.

The trip totals:

• 705 Nikon Z8 photos
• 3 rolls of 120 (30 pictures) with the Pentax 67
• 3 rolls of 36-exposure 35mm
• 190 iPhone

1,033+ shots over 3 days. I will say, many of the digital shots were attempts to catch good angles on butterflies and bees, so many of those will be trashed.

Many of the iPhone shots were taken only because I was shooting film and needed a record of where I was, plus a photo of the day. And, really, my phone camera roll is a journal of sorts. I love scrolling back through my pictures and seeing where I was and what I was doing. It’s a visual life journal. I think if you don’t journal every day, you should at least take lots of pictures every day to document your life.

FlohGro’s On This Day Rewind is a great app for looking back at your past photos. I use it almost every day. Get going on that Visual Journal!

On a side note, if you’re a book lover, I finished A Great Book with Barack Obama on this trip, and it’s an outstanding series where he talks about great books that impacted his life with other authors and actors. It’s really well done, and it’s added to my To Be Read pile. It’s an Audible Original, so I’m not sure how widely it’s out there, but here is the Audible link.

Down in Stray Pixels, another great road sign and the old church bell.

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iPhone shot & processed