seeing through the dark

i took a roll of 3500 ISO black and white film to france. i had no idea what i was doing. and i still wouldn't know if you asked me. but without this film, i wouldn't have been able to take a picture of the eiffel tower at night, or inside cathedrals lit only by candlelight, or through secret darkened rooms in the louvre.

this is what it looks like to take pictures in the dark in france.

love,
me

the leaf of the wisteria through which the sun darts his rays. murasaki shikibu.

i found myself falling in love with the wisteria. we arrived in france just when the wisteria began to bloom. and they hung so delicately. they were soft purple, and the leaves just beginning to unfold.

it might have been a chilly start to a late spring in france, but it was the perfect time for new blossoms, and we saw many of them.

love,
me



mamiya 546 taken in spring 2012

cote d'azur

southern france in april.

we expected a warm beach to lounge on and get a tan.

instead, we discovered a small town where mom bought a lamp the size of me, we hiked to where nietzsche wandered to find inspiration for his writing, and we explored the prison made famous by a man in an iron mask.

the stairs worn in the centre over hundreds of years of prison guards and prisoners still capture me.

love,
me

mamiya 645

voyage sur la route

we drove for five days, road bikes for one, the metro in paris for three, and walked through southern france for eight. a trip for three girls to see everything they could possibly see in france in seventeen days.

and these are some of my favourites from our road trip.

the clouds even parted for some of the time (we had no idea it would be as cold as canada...)!

love,
me

mamiya 645 taken spring 2012