Last year on Easter weekend, I happened to have my handy dandy Nikon N80 loaded with film and took it with me when I did various things with my family that weekend. I so enjoyed the ease of shooting (auto focus! aperture priority exposure! ultra wide angle lens!) and the results I got, I really wanted to repeat the experience over Easter 2016. Unfortunately, I discovered the batteries were dead in my N80, and I wasn’t able to grab a fresh set in a timely manner. I lost out on my chance for Easter weekend, so I decided that Mother’s Day weekend might be the next best thing! I procured some new batteries, loaded the N80 up with some Kodak Portra 400, and set forth on documenting the weekend. What ended up happening was, I did a little shooting here and there, with most of the roll of film being dedicated to a little photo shoot of my mom in her Mother’s Day garb and wearing some of the presents she received that day. It’s okay. The day was all about her anyway!
Mother-daughter painting party at my sister’s church
My excitement when I realized that my N80 could do multiple exposures
A snowflake-shaped Christmas light set hanging above our table at the Mexican restaurant 😉
Honeysuckle, one of our mom’s favorite flowers
Mini photo shoot of mom! I was just crazy for her dress!
Ring one of her dear friends had given her the week before
Cherry red pearl bracelets we gave her that day
My “tattooed mom of Instagram” (that’s a “thing”, but she’s not on IGÂ except when I put her on there!)
Absolutely crazy about the pretty little cut-out at the back of the dress!
Such a cutie!
Showing off the shawl my sister-in-law gave her for Mother’s Day
The subject of my daily photo project shot for the day
The paintings we’d done Friday night
Rare photo of my dog Dilly (mom’s fave!) since she doesn’t stand still long enough to be photographed usually
Showing my love for my sister’s “tin roof sky” porch and the globe lights strung on it
Nikon N80 • Sigma Super Wide II 24mm f/2.8 lens • Kodak Portra 400
O OUR Amanda! I love, love , love these pictures. While you capture the real me so well,somehow you make me look better. I see the fruition of your mamaw Coley’s WORD to you. I am proud to be on the receiving end of that. I know I am a living Testimony, because, in spite of, you and your siblings are walking in your divine destinies, and I do not take that for granted.YAY! Mom