When I started blogging, I began with my favorite place in the world, the Caribbean. And from that, My Irie Time was born. A few years later, I created a site devoted to my interest in film photography, Film Road Trip. Over the years, our travels have reached a bit farther, and I longed to create another site for traveling our country and beyond. When the domain name, Departure Signs, became available, I snapped it up. It allowed me to reach beyond my current websites and blog about our travels around the world, with a nod to where it all began. It was Jimmy Buffet who wrote in “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes:” “Reading…
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We took the film on the road and the results are back. We took the film cameras to Anguilla, the Canon 1V and the Mamiya Pro TL. We took a variety of film stocks, Fuji 400H, Kodak Portra 400, Porta 160, and Ektar 100. We experimented and burned a lot of film. Many lessons were learned. Here are my impressions of our efforts and the results. 1. Digital has ruined me for film – shooting the same scene again and again. I am so accustomed to shooting RAW and shooting multiple images to try to nail the shot that I wasted a lot of film. For example, I had the…
