Pacific Northwest | Film in Fall Part One

We took this trip months ago, so I’m totally delinquent in posting these Pacific Northwest photos. At the same time, it was pretty cool to wait cuz I got the chance to relive our visit as I prepared this post. I am so in love with these — and I’m so happy that I decided to shoot only film.

Last fall, V & I were hired by a pharmaceutical company for a four part shoot, each part taking us to a different area of North America. This project was a fantastic opportunity to meet new people and learn about an industry I knew little about (not to mention work with an old friend!). It was also a unique chance to travel to places we’d long wanted to explore. Fall foliage in New England and the Pacific Northwest? Montreal cafes and accents?? A celeb event in Huntington Beach just as Utah was getting a bit chilly?! Hells yeah. So, we added on a few leisure destinations to each of our pharma shoots, and we lugged my Contax 645 and Canon EOS-IV every which way in order to capture our roamings on medium format and 35mm.

I feel a bit emotional looking at these. At the time, we’d been working since April, literally not a day off (since I’m insane). Obviously, we were also working on this trip, too. I was ripe for some down time in a major way (like, the cracks were showing). But, we just hadn’t had the chance… until our jaunt to the Pacific Northwest. Specifically, Vancouver Island. I’d been eager to visit Vancouver Island since I’d last lived in Canada (in the Yukon in 2010); and V was fired up because he loves ferries more than anyone I’ve ever seen in my life (and this was our first ferry ride together) (and a huge bonus was that the food on the ferry was RIDICULOUSly awesome). So, we floated from Vancouver to Nanaimo and drove five hours across the island to Ucluelet, somewhere I’d never been but randomly chose as our destination. I was in heaven from the very first moment we arrived — the black rocks, the velvety moss, the raging surf, the rolling fog, the endless tree line, the romantic sunsets — sighhhhhhhhhhhhh. We even ran into Julia Stiles while we were there (multiple times) so that was unusually neat.

I never wanted to leave. I still wish I was there. This was, hands down, one of the best times of my life. But, until we can go back, going through these photos (again and again and again) will have to suffice. Please check out more photos in Part Two of this post to see the rest of our Pacific Northwest adventure!