Ealain Laethuil

  The Rig: A 1960s  Canon FL 55mm 1.2 lens on a 2011 Nikon D5100 with  a little blue Fotodiox adaptor to make it all happen. I have a couple old manual lens that were handed down to me from family so I wanted to give them a try on this little DSLR. I have two Canon bodies as well and did shot some film with this lens and the other but I keep driving around looking for the Fotomat in the parking lot of my local grocery store but I can't seem to find it. I have found a place in my city to develop the film I just haven't dropped it off yet. That being said I do love film but digital is faster and cheaper so I wanted to have a way to use them on this camera. And of course the internet didn't disappoint.  There are many out there to do the job you just need to find the one that goes with your camara + lens combination. A friend of mine had one on his Fujifilm digital camera so I know they were out there. I do love film but I do not love manual focus! But I still want to give it

  I never thought to see if it existed… I think all of my generation have the story of Sleepy Hollow ingrained into our consciousness from a young age thanks to the animated Disney version of this classic tale. I am not sure this was true of younger generations until Tim Burton’s live action version in 1999. That being said, Sleepy Hollow was not actually a real place until 1996. As my family does when traveling north we took the train. Amtrak to Manhattan and then the subway to the Metro North line into the Hudson Valley. Traveling this way does take a little longer but we quite enjoy it and it is that many less hours I can get a speeding ticket. Going back to my generation I came about before digital photography and digital editing. Once it came I fully embraced Photoshop. Even though I do miss the darkroom, chemicals and red light I went head first into the digital era. I always tried to keep up with the trends and abilities of Photoshop. When Lightroom was born