Jake Rohde | Valo Photography

As a thank you gift for shooting his wedding (coming up real soon) my friend, and partner in crime, Simon McConico and his fiance, got me a Fujifilm Instax Mini 7S Instant Film Camera. I took a week off with my wife and headed down to Mexico, and they thought I might be able to use it down there, so they gave it to me a little early. It was also my birthday on the 26th of Feb, so this was a very pleasant surprise. I took a lot of instant images while in Mexico, and learned a lot about the camera, as this was my first time using one. The main thing I learned was similar to the lessons learned while shooting with a Holga: Let go, loosen up, and don’t take things to seriously.

So here are some of my favorite images from the trip:

And since I am feeling good from the vacation I am going to give away 10 prints of these scanned images. So these won’t be the original instant film, but they are the next best thing. They will be printed on a 5×5 archival photo paper, signed by me. All you have to do is leave a comment below with the image you would like, and I will get it printed and mailed out to you. I will take the first 10 comments here on the blog. Make sure to leave your email when commenting (you dont have to leave it in the comment area, but there should be a spot to enter it so only I can see it). I will then email you to follow up, and get your shipping address. So here we go… first 10 people.

Jake Rohde
Valo Photography

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I don’t have too much to say about this one, besides Abby and Andrew are fantastic, gorgeous, fun people, and they are a ton of fun to work with… Check out the photos:

Simon was also shooting, check out his photos of the day here…

Abby and Andrew
Engagement Session

Jake Rohde
Valo Photography
Milwaukee WI

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The photo of the week this week is of a man reading his newspaper. Nothing special, nothing groundbreaking… I just like this image. Sometimes as I am walking around I wonder why I take certain photos… Sometimes it is just a reaction, you see something, somewhere the brain says, hey snap a picture NOW, and before you can even think about it, there is a new photo captured in your camera. It is usually these types of photos that I love best. The moments where you don’t even have a second to think about it, you just make the picture…

“Man Reading”
Jake Rohde
Valo Photography

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I am posting this weeks photo of the week a little early. I have noticed that I am very busy on the weekend making photographs, working, and find myself not in front of a computer, so I miss posting… So I am going to try and post the photo of the week a little earlier in the week… when I am in front of a computer… Anyways, this weeks photo comes from Mexico as well. Playa del Carmen. This was on one of my walks in the residential area of Playa. I happened upon this scene of a woman sweeping the street, and a dog walking away in the middle of the street. The sun was low and warm, and I quickly snapped a few images…

Street Sweeping
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Jake Rohde
Valo Photography

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I missed last weeks Photo of the Week due to the fact that I was in Mexico on vacation celebrating my one year anniversary with my wife Catherine. We had a wonderful time. I did not however have a computer there, so I couldn’t do anything with the photos I was taking while there, including posting one here. Now that I am back I am slowly getting myself back into the fast pace of life.

This weeks Photo of the Week comes from Mexico. I am not very good at Tourist type photographs of people standing in front of what they did or saw, etc. I spent most of our time in Playa outside the Tourist area, photographing what I would consider possibly more of the real Mexico. This weeks photo is from one of those adventures, check it out.

“Mini Super”
Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
Jake Rohde
Valo Photography

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