Author Archives: Charlene

One Roll, One Day December End of the year portraits 2020 done on the Mamiya RZ and HP5 film. What a wild ride this year has been, I am looking forward to saying goodbye to 2020 and welcoming in a new year, hopefully a less interesting year. Please follow the LINK to check out the […]

One Roll, One Day- November This month, I worked on taking portraits for an online class I am currently enrolled in Called Circumferences of Self. I ended up taking so many portraits throughout the month of my kids on HP5, Tri-X 400 and Acros 100. The photos in this post represent one month of portrait […]

This month, I used two rolls of Tri-X 400 film and my Pentax 645 to document Tessa! She turned 15 in the middle of the month, and we had so much fun celebrating her! Tessa is such a kind-hearted, fun loving teen. I am so glad she is a part of our family and I […]

September, the first day of virtual school for these three. No shoes were worn all day and I hope they remember this, one day telling their own kids how they didn’t wear shoes to school for the first month (maybe longer). Somedays, finding those silver linings to the “new normal” feels like a stretch but […]

This month, we took a drive to Wall Walla for a lunch in the park. It was a gorgeous afternoon and we enjoyed walking around and getting out of the house. It is hard to believe that 6 months ago, our schedules would have been so packed with back to school prep, going to spend […]

July 2020- Michigan Dow Gardens in Midland Michigan. It was over 90 degrees and felt like 1000% humidity! It was a beautiful place but I think we would have appreciated it more if we did not feel like we were melting. This month I took more than one roll of film (Portra 160 +1 stop) […]

This month’s one roll turned out a bit different than I expected. My mom got sick and ended up in the hospital with a nasty lung infection, which is scary during any time but in Covid times it was terrifying. We loaded up the kids and made the journey from Washington to Michigan. It was […]

Mother’s Day 2020- I woke up early to take a hike on Badger Mountain and when I returned, I found my kids with their hair combed (first time since quarantine started for Henry) and dressed up ready for some portraits. It has been so long since I had taken any formal portraits of them and […]

What a crazy month! I am still documenting our daily life under the Stay Home, Stay Safe order. Some days are better than others but overall, our family is learning to tolerate the new “normal.” I am still using the calendar that the kids started at the beginning of this, so we started out counting […]

Please follow the blog circle and see the next POST by Cami! All of the photos are taken with a Nikon F6 and Kodak Tri-X 400 film, self developed and scanned. My kids have been counting down the days until the ‘quarantine” ends. The oldest two changed our letter board message on the first day […]