soapbox

During Kirsten’s pregnancy, I took a picture of her every week with my large-format camera to trace how everything was developing. Back when I lived in Seattle, it was a short walk to the best photo lab in town and I built some professional relationships there and have been mailing them my film for the last 7 years. On Friday, I got the box with the most recent pictures of Kirsten back in the mail with a stamp saying “package returned, company out of business”.

It’s really kind of crazy how odd this seems. The lab had been in existence for 30 years before I started using them and they’ve processed nearly every one of my photos. (Including the photos that I’ve taken at different points of all of you.) Now it’s just gone and it’s almost like it took a piece of my childhood with it.

It’s really a very odd experience. And it means that I have to find a new photolab before they all go out of business.