Today, we’re featuring a Spain travel story from photographer Mallory Brooks. Mallory captured the beautiful colors and details of Spanish architecture with one of our favorite point and shoot cameras. Here’s more from Mallory about her film journey…
I’m a self-taught street photographer living in Atlanta, Georgia who loves to travel. New to film photography, I was wanting to try something different after shooting digital for many years. I picked up an Olympus Stylus Zoom 140 point & shoot camera a couple months ago and took it with me on a trip to Spain, where I wandered the streets of Seville and Madrid. I wanted to capture the colorful Spanish landscape on film–this was the perfect country to shoot my first rolls. I love shooting the details of a city, recording everyday life and environments that often go unnoticed. In Spain, the details that mesmerized me the most were the gorgeous iron balconies filled with plants, the azulejos, and colorful buildings.
I shot a roll of Kodak Ektar 100 and ColorPlus and used Indie Film Lab for processing. I think these two films captured the colors I saw when I was shooting, and I love how vivid and saturated they are. I’m excited to continue experimenting with film photography and seeing where it takes me creatively.
Analog cameras and films used: Olympus Stylus Zoom 140 (Find at KEH Camera or eBay) | Kodak Ektar 100 (Find on Amazon), Kodak ColorPlus 200 (Find on Amazon)
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Gabby
April 22, 2022 at 10:44 pm
Hi there!!
Your shots are beautiful! I’ll be heading to the same places this summer, and I’ll be sure to shoot in ektar and colorplus as well. I love how saturated and vibrant the photos look, thanks for sharing!!
I know your trip was a few years back, but I was wondering if you had any problems bringing/flying with film? (i.e. having it hand-checked at airport security?)
Mallory
April 25, 2022 at 1:31 pm
Hi Gabby, thank you so much for the sweet words! I honestly cannot recall my experience in Spain regarding going through the security checkpoint with film on this particular trip, but I’ve been out of the country multiple times since and at least here in the US, have no problems asking for and getting hand checks of my film any time I’m flying out (even domestically). In fact at my home airport (ATL), there are signs that say all film must be hand checked because the new screening machines are much more powerful than they used to be. I put all my film in a clear plastic bag and hand over to the agents and don’t have any issues here in the US. However, on my most recents trips back into the country, I’ve had to put my film through the scanners because they don’t allow hand checks (this was Mexico and Peru). But fortunately, their machines are older and not the latest technology so I don’t think my film was negatively impacted. My advice is to ask, though if it goes through it probably will still be ok. Hope this helps and you have an amazing time in Spain!