{"id":295897,"date":"2026-06-04T15:27:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295897\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:27:51","slug":"lakeland-film-lab-to-bring-analog-photography-back-to-st-pete-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295897\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Film Lab to bring analog photography back to St. Pete this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">After deciding it was time for a career change, Nick received an unexpected Father&#8217;s Day gift from Elizabeth: a stack of presents and paperwork for a newly formed LLC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">&#8220;I was trying to motivate him to lean into it more,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He has a great skill and I believed in him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The couple initially intended to run Lakeland Film Lab from their home as a mail-in film processing service. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">But after launching their social media accounts and receiving an overwhelming response from photographers, they realized they needed something larger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Eventually, they stumbled across a vacant storefront on a rainy night in downtown Lakeland. They contacted the landlord, shared their vision, and secured the space shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A little more than a year later, Lakeland Film Lab has grown into one of Florida&#8217;s most recognizable film photography businesses, attracting customers from across the state and fostering a community centered around analog photography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">They\u2019ve even developed film for a few famous musicians, including Coi Leray, Sza, and Snoop Dogg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Now, with a second location on the horizon, the Buttreys hope to build that same sense of community here in St. Pete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After deciding it was time for a career change, Nick received an unexpected Father&#8217;s Day gift from Elizabeth:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-295897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}