the rose family. they make it so stinking easy. look at this lot. that’s four consecutive frames on the same roll. that isn’t supposed to happen. and there are plenty more. this is just a sampling because i’m really into sharing pictures from the old rollie these days. if you are nice, i’ll show more in a while.

marlene and carl throw one heck of a party! and if you’ve got a party to throw, that nestldown is quite the spot to do it.

lots of love from all of the speakes. welcome to the family, carl.

i’ll sneak a little thank you in down here to my friend peter thomsen for helping out with the photos. how’d you like going film again? back to the roots.

i’ve been shooting families for the holidays for three or four years now. this year i decided to run it a bit differently. instead of scheduling every session separately, i picked a few of my favorite locations around town and set up a time slots on each day. then i got the word out and hoped people would start requesting shoot times.

they signed up alright. last weekend i shot up four different families. one on saturday and then three back to back to back on sunday. i think it went pretty well.

i took the opportunity to throw some film in the old Rolleiflex and see what happens. there were plenty of good frames with the canon full auto machine, but i thought i’d share a few from the Rollei’ tonight. maybe its just me, but there’s something extra fun about them.

i’m currently right in the middle of families weekend number 2. i’ll share some of those when they get birthed.

boy was it windy this day. i’ve never been blown out at hendry’s beach before. it is usually a tried and true location. the boris family were all good sports; we braved the wind for a while and then retreated to the picnic area that was better protected. i think we did alright.

for the photogs in the group, the square pictures here were shot with an old relleiflex twin lens reflex camera i inherited from my wife’s family. i’m really enjoying using it these days. the last two times i’ve gone out on a family shoot i’ve brought it along and used it a bit between shots with the fancy modern cameras. both times some of my favorite pictures have come from this 50+ year old camera.