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Here at Static Photography we are really lucky and super grateful to have such a supportive and amazing film sponsor like Specialty Color Services . Located in Santa Barbara, CA, SCS is a custom photo/imaging lab that often is extremely creative in its company's projects and incentives. In an age where digital photography is prevelant in every photographer's catalog, SCS is helping keep alive a movement back towards the creative analog: film. Kris Krug got his start in photography using film cameras, so it is very exciting to be experimenting with film again (with help from SCS!).

This past June Specialty Color Services held a Holgas and Coffee workshop at their lab in California. This workshop proved to be tinged with nostalgia for the participants were going to be shooting film on a Holga camera which meditated very little control over the photographs taken. To top it off the participants were going to develop their own black and white film in coffee. This very analog experiment challenged the photographers to think outside of their knowledge of common film processing and to simply have fun. The results were so amazing that SCS created a book, titled Holgas and Coffee, that contained a selection of the best images created at the June workshop.

The workshop and book has been very well received. SCS just held a second Holgas workshop in August and has added coffee developing to their selection of developing techniques for customers. The Holgas and Coffee workshop got recognized by Vitamin Angels, a Santa Barbara organization that delivers vitamins to undernourished children. Vitamin Angels was touched both by the energy that drives SCS' projects like Holgas and Coffee and Photograph Your Love and the company's dedication to the importance of photographs in people's lives. In addition to the fact that they uses Vitamin C in its coffee developing process, SCS decided to create a partnership with Vitamin Angels . The photo lab has announced that a dollar from every roll that is developed in coffee will be contributed to the Vitamin Angels project.

Specialty Color Services was the film sponsor for our trip to Shanghai this past June as well. We were in China shooting a photography book about Shanghai called Chinameme vol. 1 that we are co-authoring with Christine Lu . They sent us over a hundred rolls of all different kinds of film! Kris had a bunch of fun in China and back in Vancouver shooting all the film. The texture and color style of film is so impressive that the analog movement of film photography might just be having a resurgence. :)

Keep up the amazing work Specialty Color Services !