The Hasselblad Snapshot

Olive Buck – two things can elicit this smile: swimming and ice cream (rarely together).

I have literally thousands of pictures of my daughter – buried away in folders on my computer.

So this summer I decided to go back to film. Putting aside any arguments about the value of film vs. digital, there is something magical when a family snapshot is on film. And it just so happened that we’d planned a vacation with my siblings and parents in Thousand Island Park NY giving me plenty of material.

I was worried that as soon as I picked up a serious camera I’d go into work mode (not compatible with vacation mode!), but since I haven’t shot my Hasselblad for a job since the late 90s it didn’t happen.

Instead I got some delightful photos of my family, and also got in some swimming, a few gin and tonics and finished Mark Maron‘s great memoir, Attempting Normal.

My lovely wife, Michelle Golden.

Flynn Burgess getting a henna tattoo from his father, while re-creating the pieta.

Cousins on the front porch, Sequoia Buck and Olive.

My brother-in-law Patrick Burgess gives my dad a haircut.

Olive Buck reaching the United States.

With the Hasselblad in action (luckily my daughter wasn’t on my head the entire week).