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Jeanne Yang Photography

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Jeanne Yang Photography is a blog based mostly in San Francisco. It is a collection of pretty things, thoughts, and recollections.

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‘What you seek is seeking you.’ - Rumi . This Rumi has some deep words. . But is the sandwich I’m seeking to put down my gullet REALLY seeking me? 🤔 Riddle me that!🤤 . I’m in Hong Kong right now, so this is a 35mm film photo selfie of me from my hotel room earlier this year in Hong Kong. Hong Kong; March 2018. The reflection is an actual reflection and not a double exposure. . #analogphotography #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #canonae1 #kodakportra400 #35mm #jeannedoesasia

The wind is out in full force tonight. On nights like tonight, I close my eyes and imagine that a giant dog is running circles around my house. Sometimes he brushes close and explores the walls and windows. The house strains at his attention. Then he is gone, suddenly off to explore something far afield. And then suddenly yet again he is back, bounding straight for the thin lanes of glass, heavy breath pushing against the sides of the house. . It is blustery out tonight. . 35mm film photo of my man, lost among the tall grasses on a windy day. . Mt. Tamalpais; 2016.

"If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food. It's a plus for everybody." -Anthony Bourdain . More 35mm film from that day where contrast was high, the wind was whistling for the joy of life, and the world felt like our oyster. . If you look carefully at this photo, there is a tiny person, always stepping up, always forging ahead. . Mt. Tamalpais, 2016. . #35mm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #analogphotography #canonae1 #kodakportra400

Found this in my archives. . Missing this brightness and contrast in my photos. Time to go hike Mt. Tam again, maybe. . 35mm film photo from... 2016?

This hot California summer day is throwing me back to last March, when we sweated our way around Cartagena, Colombia. . I think it’s time for a return trip. Do you? . 35mm color film photo of some guys taking it easy in the shade. Cartagena, Colombia; March 2017.

Double exposure. And a reflection. . 35mm color film. Taken one day when I needed to drop off film and had a few extra shots left in the roll. . San Francisco, May 2018.

Happy Father’s Day! Cheers to my awesome dad, who’s managed to survive being my parent for 30+ years. 😘 . 35mm film photo taken in a random alleyway in Taipei, Taiwan last month while we were waiting for my mother to finish having lunch with her middle school classmates. Taiwan; May 2018.

I have been feeling somewhat unsatisfied and uninspired with my photography lately. I just came back from a two-week vacation trip to Taiwan where I took many rolls of film, but when I got the scans back, it was... meh. . Not sure if it’s the film that I was using (tried Portra 800, Natura 1600, and a B/W ISO 3200 film I forgot the name of)— there was a lack of vibrancy to the images that was... disappointing. . It might be the new film that I’m not used to; it might be a different scan technique was used (will have to try rescanning these in my own); it might be that Taiwan was covered with a haze that made everything in my photos seem dull and dark and lifeless. And Taiwan, of all places, is none of those. . Disappointment. Worry that it’s my eye and a sudden inability to interpret what’s around me. . (Admittedly, it’s hard to do portraits when you’re sticking by only one person the entire time. I have a LOT of photos of C; I’m trying to limit spamming everyone with photos of him. Taking photos of strangers is still something I can’t quite bring myself to do well. Yet. Unless they’re unwitting subjects. Like here.) . 35mm color photo of a stranger eating beef noodle soup in my mother’s hometown of Longtan (龍潭); Taiwan, May 2018. #35mm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #analogphotography #canonae1 #kodakportra800

‘It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.’ -Rumi . As a side note: Northern California summers are not really summers. . I kind of miss those hot summer nights where you’re sweating, but the cool, juicy, sweetness of a popsicle is the most blissful thing that could ever exist. . 35mm black and white film photo of a random woman crouching on Ocean Beach with a pizza box. March 2018.

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Month: September 2014

Jeanne Begins Again

My cousin gifted me a 1970s Canon AE-1 film camera for my birthday several years ago. For the first year and a half, the camera languished in my closet because the thought of handling film was, when compared with the immediacy of my DSLR Canon Rebel T1i, too much trouble. One day I wandered into […]

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