Here’s a bunch.

Canon AE-1, Kodak Portra 160, BW conversions in PS.

Since I had a bunch more, I figured I could fire them up as well. So here goes, a few more frames shot on film.

Canon AE-1.

Canon AE-1.

Canon AE-1. Portra 160.

Fer flew in about 40 hours ago, we showed him around town a little, had some Sushi, he did his workshop all day yesterday at the Vogue Theatre, we had beers with bunch of awesome fellow Vancouver wedding photographers last night, before sending Fer back to Mexico this morning. His stay lasted a whopping 36 hours, as he had to get back for a wedding in Texas this weekend.

Fer and I shot a wedding in Xcaret, Mexico together last summer and we’ve stayed in touch since. He’s an awesome guy and a brilliant photographer, and if you get a chance to go to his workshops one day, I highly recommend you do so. If you can take all his (rather funny Mexican accented) profanities, that is. The F-bombs were flying all day.

Here’s a Fer styled portrait of Hannah and Mike. We shot Hannah and Mike’s wedding in Vancouver last year, and since they too are awesome people who we don’t see nearly often enough, we asked them to be models for Fer’s workshop. Which they gladly accepted. And it just so happened to be their 1 year wedding anniversary as well.

X100.

Anyway.

I like working in coffee shops. Not only because they’re cozy, there’s a constant smell of cinnamon buns and they have an unlimited supply of coffee/tea, but also because there’s always a constant flow of people. I find myself working really well with a lot of people around. The flow of people is a source of inspiration, and I can sit with headphones on in my own little work bubble. (I also like airports, for the very same reason.)

When you’re in the same coffee shop more or less daily, you make friends. Or acquaintances may be a better word for it. The staff recognize you, you share the daily ‘good-to-see-you-again’ look and you chat about this and that. Almost like the Cheers’ where-everybody-knows-your-name kinda thing (less the beer).

Which is nice. Almost like having work colleagues.

The problem, however, is that every place where it’s free to hang around (as long as you spend a dollar or two) seem to have ‘the regulars’. And with regulars, I mean weirdos. The ones who are there every day, doing nothing. Sometimes with a newspaper, sometimes just sitting there, sometimes bragging to each other about their day/week/life.

At first you don’t notice them. Since they look and act normal(ish), they blend in with everyone else. But after a week or so, you see them. And after that, they’re always there.

And after going to the same coffee shop for a while, without even knowing it, you somehow become a part of that group. You become one of the weirdos.

At least that’s how it feels.

I really like this place I’m at right now – they’ve got comfy chairs and the music isn’t too loud – but I’m sitting next to a group of regulars, indulging in a conversation about how awesome their iPhones/Blackberries are. And how there are video cameras in their building elevators.

I’ve become one of the weirdos.

Time to find a new coffee shop.

Holga 135BC.

And I’m actually pretty impressed with the results (the ones below are straight from the lab, just resized in Photoshop), considering the camera was built in the mid 70′s and costs less than any digital point-and-shoot.

Who needs digital.

(Well, I do. Couldn’t shoot all film for work, but still…)

I’ll be shooting a lot more film in the near future, that’s for sure.

Have to say it’s pretty nice to get ready-to-go files from the lab. No editing, no nothing…

“So you’re taking a few blows. That’s the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines. Stop complaining and be grateful.”

“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”

“There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.”

“A hack [...] is a writer who second-guesses his audience. When the hack sits down to work, he doesn’t ask himself what’s in his own heart. He asks what the market is looking for.”

“Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?”

All quotes above are from Steven Pressfield’s “The War of Art“. It’s a very well-written piece about working in a creative field, about fulfilling your potential and about getting your work done.

Every creative should read it.