I heart film #2

Thank you so much for your enthusiasm (and preorders!) for the book!! Oh, it is so fun to share this journey with you here. I'm very eagerly - and as patiently as I can - awaiting March 11th when I can actually hold it in my hands. Until the book has it's own website (must figure that out soon!), you'll find book news and a link to the Amazon pre-order page sitting quietly over there in the right sidebar.

Last week on our little vacation (which ended up being more home-bound than originally planned, but when 'home' means the beach? There was little complaining.), I continued my little love affair with film. I brought the camera along with us on our fourth of July beach visit. Every shot in the roll was overexposed or otherwise funky technically. But I don't care - every single one makes me so happy. I can't stop fussing over the magic of film, especially when it's not my 'everyday' method of taking pictures. There's so much I love about it - the one chance, the waiting, even the sound of the clicking camera. Anyway...here are a few of my favorites. A few more are on Flickr in my film set, if I haven't over saturated you with beach photographs yet (oh, there are still months yet to go!).

Happy Monday, friends. It's nice to be back!

Comments

[Bex]

Oh. Absolute stunners. All of you! Is that hubby playing with the kids in the last shot? What a great big teddy bear that one is. Love it...

[janet clare]

You just can't beat a holiday by the seaside, beside the sea!

[Anna]

Glad you are back, I missed you (need something to brighten up my days at the moment and you are the best to do this "job"). And I love the photos, especially that of Adelaide. It looks so artsy :-)

[Carrie]

What beautiful pictures! I have always loved old cameras. You never know what moments you have captured til you get them developed.

[Mama Urchin]

The tone in these is so vintage. Love them.

[Ella]

love love love these photos! i forget sometimes about film but it really is my favorite and so different from digital.
Your blog has been part of my daily reading for some time and i too am anxiously awaiting the book. In fact now at this wee hour, is a good time to preorder.
oh and there can never be too many beach photos.

[Emily]

you are a true inspiration-you create beautiful works of art thru writing, film, teaching and your children! i'm so happy to have a place to visit online to satisfy my own perspective on life. it is easy for me to find the balance that i strive for in my own life by simply "visiting" you. thank you.

ps-i can't wait to see this book! my new present idea for soon-to-be-new mothers

[Grammie]

Your pictures are wonderful! I especially love the ones that you take looking down at things from above!

What precious memories..... : )

[emily]

beautiful pictures, you so completely captured the "feeling" of the beach

[Julia]

great pictures. you've totally inspired me to go back to the film camera- and to finally learn how to use my mom's old manual canon. beautiful!

[shari]

beautiful film photos. wow amanda. glad you enjoyed your vacation. xox

[meredebluebelle]

OMG, Amanda, I could just weep at how beautiful these photos are. Your children are profoundly lucky to be encircled with such love, creativity, and commitment. And of course, you are lucky that the universe sent them to you. ;-)

[Sandy]

Beautiful!

[Stefani]

Oh! They are beautiful! I especially love the one of you and your babes together. So glad to have you back, I missed having my mourning Soule fix!

[Ellie]

I love the feel of these photos. Film is so much more expressive than digital, it has a depth and a warmth - and you are using these features so perfectly to capture your days. The top one looks like a postcard you'd find in an old box, buried in someones attic or second-hand store.

[Heather]

So lovely and amazing... all of it!

[Sharon]

I've always loved your pictures, and the film ones have a lovely quality that is difficult to describe. You must have a lot of patience (and talent) to fiddle with all the little details that go into it!
And your family is SO cute! The ones of Adelaide are especially great! Her bathing suite is quite sassy.
Great to have you back!

[Ky]

It's funny; I haven't thought much about the different properties of film v. digital until you posted your film results. It makes me want to go grab out my ancient Canon that I inherited from my mom, who got it when she graduated college in 1978. I love that camera. There's something so personal about taking pictures with it. Thanks for the inspiration, and hearty congrats on your book!

[Jenna]

Thanks for posting such fun photos of the beach. I remember when digital first came out it was so easy to spot the differences. Now I'm so used to everything being digital that I've forgotten all the great qualities of film.

[Helen]

Thanks for the beautiful pictures Amanda. Just last night I was thinking about the clicking sound of a 'real' camera and how much I love that noise. Funny, it seemed such a personal thing it's touching to feel it's shared. Reading your blog is one of the little beautiful things which illuminate my life and help remind me why I'm so lucky to be at home with my own little one enjoying the journey she's taking me on. Thank you.

[Grace]

OK, I have a question (before I head out on a camping trip in one hour. gotta read some blogs first!) How come all of your film photos turn out with such marvelous "grain" to them, whereas all the film shots we took on our previous (SLR) film camera just look like regular old pictures?

[Grace]

PS: I have a Canon 400D (Digital Rebel XTi) which tries to imitate that satisfying click sound of a film camera, which was quite disconcerting when I got it, and now it's just funny.

[erin]

love your film shots - so good.

[tricia]

these are gorgeous!

[Julie]

Welcome back... beautiful photos!

[hannah]

i love the colors on these! yay film!!

[SOULEMAMA]

Grace - I used a really low speed film. 200 ISO. Also, the camera is super old - it was Steve's grandfather's. I bet there's plenty of dirt in there helping out the grain factor. ;)

[Rhian]

Beautiful shots I love them all.

[katie]

oh...the beauty of film. i still love it. wish i could use it more. did you do any postprocessing on those? because the colors are fantastic.

[SOULEMAMA]

Thank you, Katie! No post processing - the prints were just scanned and then resized. I have no idea why (perhaps that they're all slightly overexposed?), but the colors are uniform throughout the set. I *love* that.

[erinvega]

i lOVE the rich, muted colors in these. And the content is fabulous!

[emily]

i've been thinking of bringing out my old film camera since your last film post - but i've been so spoiled by the ability to take oodles of photos on my digital camera that i'm almost worried about having only one shot at each shot (so to speak). but your post today has given me courage - you say that these are all overexposed or somehow technically off, but they're all so lovely - really, so expressive and marvelous to look at. so i think i might break out the film just to see what can happen. thanks for the inspiration.

[Sara Shalom]

Welcome back! I missed your posts. They've become an important part of my day.

[m]

Love the colours in these pics. The've got an authentic nostalgic wash that can only come with an old camera. Beautiful.

[eireann]

speaking of a lot of love in a family...

I especially like the one of you with the kiddos and the one of adelaide in the sand (beautiful colors in that one).

xo

[Adriana]

Hi Amanda,

Congratulations on the book. If you need help with the website, let me know :-)

[Michelle]

Gosh, there really is something so very different about film, isn't there? And it's amazing, and irreplaceable, in my opinion. If it wasn't for the cost factor, I think I'd stick with my old camera, the one I dropped once in the garage and once on a bridge in Venice, and then duct-taped together - but it still works!

Thanks for the pictures, I especially love the one of the baby's head!

[Veronica TM]

beautiful! i love film also and you make me want to dust my camera and start shooting again.

[Lindsey Clare]

i'm with you Amanda - film is lovely. this set is so dreamy!

i love little A's little halter too :)

[tamara in melbourne, australia]

What beautiful colours; I love the mood that this gives the set.
Welcome back!

and ps: I note your book is being offered as a pair with 'bend the rules sewing' - nice!