take me to the beach

Visited my brother in Seattle again, in July this time. The PNW is always beautiful but infinitely more tolerable in the summer weather.

No matter where I go I'm always drawn to the ocean. 

Alki Beach

Alki Beach

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Pier 69 at the Seattle waterfront

Pier 69 at the Seattle waterfront

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This is the best dog I saw in Seattle

This is the best dog I saw in Seattle

Discovery Park

Discovery Park

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Ili & her fiance Sam

Ili & her fiance Sam

This is the first roll of film I shot through this camera, a fully-manual Pentax Honeywell with a pancake lens that I picked up at the Goodwill near my house. The light meter is broken so I have to carry a separate one around or use Sunny 16.

What I loved about film when I started doing it in high school is the same thing I love about film now — a moment captured in time, the requirement of patience as a part of the process. I never know how these are going to turn out. 

yosemite, ca — january 2017

i don't remember whose idea it was for us to go to yosemite in the dead of winter.

i'm actually not very happy about how these turned out — it was my first time shooting b&w film in a while; the stark landscape, paired w/ constant low-light conditions, made shooting a challenge. luckily, nature likes showing off. 

i was tryna find chinatown

honolulu, hawaii. winter 2016. 

 

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From album Night and Day Trying to find chinatown Trying to find chinatown A hungry man Can hold out a long time For some soul food Good food, whole food I know I was that man Maybe sometimes hold out a little too long I took a right Then I