shop dogs | film

When you are a photographer you find yourself doing some slightly irrational things. Like making your husband take you back to the liquor store you passed a few times on the way to the lake cabin because you noticed the cutest dogs standing guard.

This happens to me a lot: I’ll see some trees in some particularly fabulous light as I drive by, or I’ll notice an interesting structure I had overlooked before. I make a mental note, think about it, and figure out when to go back to shoot it. Sometimes I’ll even grab some iPhone shots just to remember the place and then I can plan on getting back around to it. I know many of my photographer friends do this same kind of thing.

In this instance I came back to the store late in the afternoon with my film camera. I love shooting summer scenes with film. There’s something timeless about summer and the same goes for film. These dogs just hung around on this porch all day from what I could tell, maybe picking their heads up if someone came by. Mostly snoozing. I’m hoping to see these rascals again this year when we head up to the cabins in northern Michigan…

Canon EOS3 | 50 mm | Kodak Portra 400 | Developed and scanned by The Darkroom