NYE

Esther Williams and Ben Gage on their wedding day in 1945.

Can’t get over some of the awesome photos on Old Loves

If you can’t get it fixed in time… Buy another?

I picked up a new Diana F+ clone today, Glow. It looks yellow on the lomography site, but it’s actually lime green and white. The flash unit looks a whole lot better on my Edelweiss camera too - because it’s white. 

The top of the camera has glow in the dark stars printed on it! Stars! Reminiscent of my tweenage days, when my ceiling was plastered with greenish glow in the dark stars.I’m delighted.

You can see the camera in this photo. it’s over to the left. Picture is me experimenting with the viewfinder that goes with the Diana fisheye lens and my cellphone. Fauxfisheye?

Fiji tomorrow, I’m just taking my cellphone and my new friend glowie. And a stash of film :)

“We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.”

- 20th Century photography legend, Henri Cartier-Bresson

Really sad that I’m going to be in sunny Fiji next week, and both of my little babies are broked.

So there will be no fancy lomopictures for me this trip. I’m considering buying a few disposables, or maybe getting a cheap holga or fisheye from one of the shops I’ve seen around Auckland stocking them.

Hate the thought of going photo-less.

_{This photo was taken on a Lomography Fisheye No. 2, by girl_anachronism on Fuji 400 film in Fiji.}

Can someone please put this camera in my life?

Today at Barcamp I gave this wee presentation. Posting for reference!

All photographs other than product shots are my own.

Sprockety sprockety sprockets. 

Didn’t George Jetson make Sprockets? I don’t think they were like this.

Olie Monster. Walking to Parnell for lunch on my last day at Terabyte in February. He is a giant.

Diana F+, Lomography 100 35mm film.

I’m very glad to discover that the first roll of 35mm film I put through my Diana F+ in it’s 35mm back wasn’t destroyed. It’s taking a long time to work through the pictures, but it’s super rewarding.

I got this roll developed along with a roll from my Diana Mini, and it turns out the shutter on the Mini has been stuck open, so only one picture is somewhat legible - bummer! I took some snaps on my very first visit to Melbourne a few weeks ago which I was excited about seeing.

So now, I’ve pretty much managed to break everything - Diana Mini shutter issues, accompanying F+ flash not firing with shutter release, Diana instant back not pushing instax through, Diana F+ shutter issues and errant spring… Ahhh, so accomplished.

Diana F+, Lomography 100 35mm film (sprockets! yay!), photo taken at Flock House in Bulls during Camp a Low Hum in February.