Created by the company Lomography, Lady Grey 400 is a classic black and white film with an ISO rating of 400, crafted to deliver a beautifully smooth grain and a wide spectrum of tones. It's versatile enough to adapt to varying lighting conditions and can be developed using standard black and white chemistry.
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Created by the company Lomography, Lady Grey 400 is a classic black and white film with an ISO rating of 400, crafted to deliver a beautifully smooth grain and a wide spectrum of tones. It's versatile enough to adapt to varying lighting conditions and can be developed using standard black and white chemistry.
On April 18, I photographed the outdoor Snail Mail concert at Union Collective in Baltimore.
In 2014, I experienced Vans Warped Tour as a fan. More than a decade later, I returned as a photographer.
According to Kodak’s datasheet, Ektar 100 “offers the finest, smoothest grain of any color negative film available today.” It’s also widely known for bold color and high saturation. It's best suited for landscapes, architecture, and scenes where detail and color accuracy matter more than flexibility.
In this post, I’m sharing my photography goals for 2026—a year focused on slowing down, shooting with intention, and deepening my relationship with both digital and film photography. From releasing pressure while shooting film to being more thoughtful with composition, perspective, and film stock choice, these goals reflect a shift toward presence, patience, and storytelling. This is less about perfection and productivity, and more about making photographs that feel honest, connected, and true to the moments they come from.
This past summer, I spent a couple of months working a seasonal retail job in Bar Harbor, Maine. This was my second stint at this job, and I was thrilled to be living close to the shore again, right on Main Street. Months prior, I had bought 3 rolls Portra 160VC film from eBay that had expired in 2005. I knew I was taking a risk with expired film, but I was semi-hopeful knowing that it was stored refrigerated. I overexposed the roll by two stops and shot it at 40 iso to account for the two decades passed its expiration date. I've never shot Portra 160VC, so I had no expectations.
Last fall, while I was living in Maine, a few friends and I decided to spend one of our days off doing something that actually felt like fall, so we drove out to Treworgy Family Orchards for an afternoon of apple picking. We brought cameras along mostly out of habit, not really planning a formal shoot, but the orchard ended up being the perfect setting to casually document what fall really felt like. We mainly went for the apples, that we happened to eat while walking through the rows of apple trees, but still got some great photos along the way.
I can pretty much trace my half•alive obsession back to 2019, when I first came across still feel on a personalized Spotify playlist. Within the first 5 seconds I was hooked to the beat, then I found the music video and discovered the unique dancing of Josh Tyler. The choreography was so weird, precise, and satisfying that I kept watching it over and over, then doing the same thing with arrow. For a while, those were basically the only two half•alive songs I listened to. I had them on repeat constantly, but somehow never bothered to explore much further into the rest of their music.
