Photo Walk with The FIND Lab in Houston
We write and schedule our blog posts months in advance, so there’s no way to know for certain what our schedule on the publishing date of Monday, November 10, 2025 looks like at this time of writing on Friday, August 1, 2025. But I can bet we’ll be in the usual throes of a fall busy season, therefore I’m scheduling this fun post as a nice change of pace; something to look at whilst I’m in a weeks-long editing marathon, sprinkled with a couple of sessions a week.
Our usual blog posts are either educational in topic, or highlighting our work with clients. This one, however, will be neither of those. Today I’m highlighting our time spent with the best lab ever, The FIND Lab, as founder Jon Canlas traveled around the country to teach film photographers different topics pertaining to shooting film. When he came to Houston, we knew we had to tag along for the photo walk.
Little backstory: I worked briefly for The FIND Lab in 2015/ 2016. I was lucky enough to meet all of my fellow FIND folks in-person even though I was a remote editor. In the short amount of time I worked there, I made friendships that I still have today. I’ve also traveled to Utah a couple of different times to see the lab and meet up with friends from the lab for film shoot outs. The FIND Lab facilitates photo walks, shoot outs, trips, and galleries, and all things film photography. If you’re ever looking for a lab to develop and scan your film, I always recommend FIND.
Anyhoo, earlier this year we attend the photo walk as Jon traveled to Houston. Jon chatted about using flash with film, a topic I admittedly still need practice with. It was cool to see old film friends in Houston, and meet new people. Here are a few film photos from the photo walk, which are unedited; I prefer fun, personal (non-client) film photos like this to be unedited.
Even though the time together was spent chatting about using flash with film, there aren’t many photos here where I used flash. I mostly stuck with natural light, and we used 3 different cameras. I had 2, 35mm film cameras with me (one older and fuzzier, one newer and crisper), and Tamara brought along an expired disposable camera that was originally meant to be for emergency purposes. She’s had it in her car for years, so it’s seen lots of heat and less-than-ideal film storage conditions. It was so cool to see how the different photos turned out depending on the camera and film stock used. I love the resulting photos regardless, and am excited to practice using flash with film in the future!
