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    Polaroids from out West

    by Kaylah Stroup June 16, 2014

    Well hey there! If you don’t follow me on instagram you might have missed my most recent little adventure. I mentioned it briefly last week on the blog but other wise kept things running smoothly over here. Jeff and I took a liiiittle trip out West. By “little trip” I mean we flew to Denver, Colorado, rented a car and drove around six states including Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona, and New Mexico. We spent two nights in a hotel, one night in a wigwam, and the other three in the car. In the six days we were on the road we racked up a whopping 3,204 miles. It was the most incredible trip of my life. I could have never imagined it would be that much fun.

    I took so many photos. 18 rolls of 35mm film, quite a few packs of instant film, and a handful of digital photos. The 35mm I haven’t gotten developed yet. I’m trying to compare prices a bit because that’s a lot of film. There will definitely be a plethora of blog posts about this trip. I seriously can’t even remember all the things we did off the top of my head, it takes looking back through my photos to help me remember because we just did SO MUCH. To start off the posts from my big trip, here are some random photos I took with my polaroid 600 and some Impossible Project color frame film.

    I have photos of almost all of these things taken with my other camera as well. I’m sure there will lots more dinosaurs and kitschy roadside things on the blog shortly since the desert just seems to be full of them, it’s kind of crazy!

    I can’t wait to share more soon!
    xoxo

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  • Its a jungle out there…

    by Kaylah Stroup June 9, 2014

    Soon after I met Jeff he asked me if I knew about the dinosaurs in Mentor. Mentor is halfwayish between where I live now and where I used to live. It was where I did all my shopping before moving, and I’d definitely consider myself pretty darn familiar with the area so for me to …

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  • fog

    by Kaylah Stroup May 27, 2014

    One of my favorite things to shoot is fog. The opportunity rarely arises for me, I think the last time I took fog pictures I really loved was way back in 2012. (See here, they’re still some of my favorites!) Last week on the way over to Jeff’s place I saw it was pretty foggy …

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