35mm photo by me, September 2025
[Minolta XG-1, Ilford film]
Coreopsis Mellifera
Film is Not Dead
Half-frame Summer: at the Brewery with My Kodak Ektar H35N
Nashville on Neopan
Sometime last year, Scott and I picked up an expired roll of Neopan 1600 from a photography shop in Pensacola, FL. It’s been rattling around in the bottom of my film drawer for a minute now. I tended to skip over it, since I don’t do a lot of night-time or low-light photography.
When we went to Nashville, TN for a few days in September 2025, the Neopan seemed like a perfect match for Broad Street’s neon lights. One evening while Scott attended a work-related event, I popped the film in my camera and set off alone down Broad Street.
Dragoncon Parade 2025 on 35mm Film
Every Labor Day weekend, Atlanta is overrun. The invasion includes superheroes, fairies, stormtroopers, a periodic table, marching bands, an entire SWAT team of ghostbusters— not to mention the more obscure characters, such as Gand-Alf (a mashup of Gandalf and the puppet Alf).
For those of you who don’t know, DragonCon in Atlanta is a whole thing.
I’m not quite nerdy enough to attend such a Convention, but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying the parade.
This year I brought along my trusty Minolta XG-1 and a roll of 35mm b/w film.
Continue readingThe Key West Collection
I recently put some of my favorite 35mm Key West photos for sale here: Fine Art America
Fine Art America is a large online marketplace for art prints. You can find almost any kind of art you can imagine on there (although I’m afraid it is being slowly choked out by AI generated images).
Here’s the link to my images specifically: https://art-by-kelli-hardin.pixels.com/
Unbidden Grace 