Third Eleven Rolls

August 5, 2025

Third Eleven Rolls

Subtitle: This naming scheme is starting to get out of hand.

I took a work trip to Tampa, where I visited a farm, explored downtown Ybor, spent a day in the beautiful Feeding Tampa Bay Facility with comrades from across the state (the only pictures that came out any good were the ones from the farm).
I went to the Tropical Nights event here in DeLand, which also took place during the weekly Farmer’s Market. And the next day, I went to the local 50501 protest.
In this post you will see pictures from each of these events.

Shoutout to Reformed Film Lab for developing these!

Producer’s notes: Sofia started a photography instagram! Check it out!! Also, I started an Instagram account for this blog — give us a follow @becoming_whatever.

As always, click to enlarge the smaller pics.

Meacham Urban Farm

Honestly, I wasn’t going to include many of these pictures at all. But Sofia insisted, saying it reminded them of the version of Florida they picture in their head. I thought that was sweet, so here they are:

Farm cat stalking through the rows of plants.

More farm animals. Sofia liked all the horizontal lines in the right picture, specifically the different lines of brown in the mulch and then the green foliage in the background.

Mr. Travis Malloy, co-founder of Meacham Urban Farm, giving us a tour of the place.

I’m not sure what makes a landscape picture good, but these three were my attempts at capturing the nice scenery of the farm. If not for Sofia’s urging, I probably would’ve only included the greenhouse picture from these three.

Tropical Nights

“Get out your grass skirts, tropical hats, Hawaiian shirts, and leis! MainStreet DeLand Association’s Tropical Nights is right around the corner!“

I love this pic so much. It’s one of the only pics from all these rolls that I actually remember trying to consciously compose in the moment. Events like these are great for pictures cause there’s so much “coordinated interesting-ness” going on.

Left: Tug of war
Right: I love taking pics of other photographers

A nice family moment. I really like the similar expressions between the (presumed) Mom and Daughter.

Kids being kids. I definitely feel weird taking pics of kids, especially when they’re this young. There was an open hose nearby this location with lots of kids playing in the water that I just didn’t feel comfortable shooting at all, but Sofia got some good shots of them. Thoughts on taking pics of kids? Leave a comment, or send me a private message!

Farmer’s Market

As much I don’t like posed pictures, these kids were being fun and what, am I gonna say no? The one in the black shirt in the middle is extremely photogenic.

Sofia!!!

End of one roll / start of another
ft. my buddy Brandon getting shot point-blank in the face.

Kids, playing at something. Sofia also got a great shot of them.

This dude always carries his little dogs around with him, off leash, and they’re just extremely chill and well-behaved.

No-scope fist bump is so steezy.

Hello, goodbye!

Just a fun moment, nothing super great photography-wise here in my opinion.

Mr. Joseph, of Pig Tail Farms, and his dog! I don’t know why, but I struggle so hard to get a good pic of him. Great guy, you should all go buy his pickles.

Saturday

People in cars. What more can I say?

This dude is always asking me to take his picture, which is great, cause he really hams it up for me.

Lots of great photo opportunities generated by this counter-protester. Especially when he accidentally flew his sign upside-down for a solid half hour without realizing. I bet friend-of-the-blog Pub Classroom would appreciate some of these depictions of political disagreement…

I feel like I’ve seen a lot of photographers taking pics of hands, kinda like this, so I wanted to give it a try. I’m not sure if this is a good picture, but it’s fun to me.

Mom encouraging her good ol boy through the crowd with a gentle hand on the back. Beware! Protesters!

Some sort of confrontation. I like that they’re both wearing similar hats.

This dude was definitely getting annoyed with me hovering around him trying to get his picture, which of course just made the picture that much better.