EYE // PHONE.

EYE // PHONE.

a casual guide to developing an eye for elevated phone photography

“An eye for elevated phone photography is an asset worth developing. It might come in handy for a job or for personal branding, for capturing moments in a true-to-experience form, and best of all, for its perspective-altering potential. What’s more, cultivating this skill can get you to a place where you regularly and instinctively locate all the beautiful and exceptional elements in your everyday life with profound appreciation and gratitude. It’s a tool with great practical and emotional return. Who wouldn’t love to see more beauty in our lives, and get the most out of every memory we document? It begins with developing a photographer’s eye.”

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You might be living in an early 20th century British novel if...

Throwin’ it back to a Blenheim Palace visit in 2013.

• Everything was much better before The War

• You use four different nicknames daily for "Charles," and they're all for the same guy

• Someone you know would lay down their life for a cold, inconvenient, and uncomfortable middle-of-nowhere house

• Your local spunky unmarried 30-something woman looks like Emma Thompson

• Your friend has confided in you that he can't possibly leave his cheating spouse, he’s an upstanding Englishman!

• You’ve experienced extreme drama surrounding unsent or misinterpreted letters

Oxford, 2013.

• Nanny still lives in the attic 47 years later and will show off your baby photos if you ask

• You have a vague perception of Catholics as being kinda weird

• Someone is the black sheep of your family solely because they married the wrong person

• At one point you have regaled a friend with everything you know about a particular man. But you are definitely not in love with him, oh no. You think about him 24/7 but you are not in love with him and have never been. Also you have no other memories from the past decade that don't involve this man that you are absolutely not in love with

• Papa says England must be falling because women have jobs and opinions now

• You’re reliably very, very surprised when you run into a neighbor-slash-relative...in your tiny town...at a family event! Small world

• Your family friend Edmund is a commoner, but he's allowed to party on our veranda because man, can he write 

• A symbolic Big Tree grows on the grounds of your family home

• They're tearing down your ancient house to build flats, what a pity 

• It's been a while since you’ve heard from your distant relative in India or the Levant

• You’re certain the butler can't feel love, he exists just to butler

• People who didn’t go to Oxford don't count  

• Is your nickname derisive or affectionate? You genuinely do not know

• Mama is lying down on account of her nerves and migraines; please don't make noise in the corridors

• You’ve considered running away to Switzerland to ride out a wave of drama and gossip in style

• You know cousin Victoria is capital-R Rebelling, because she wants to marry an American 

• There's a new baby in the family but you never see it and rarely mention its name 

Lake Quinault on Film

Lake Quinault shot on Portra 400 film using a vintage Leica. National Park lodges always make me think of retro summer camps and quiet, reflective evenings…and on film, even more so.