April 19, 2008

Minolta SR-1
35mm
Drugstore brand film.

Just a week shy of 4 years since I shot this. Herbal Affair in Sand Springs. One of the best photos I ever took of my dad, and one of the last outside of a hospital. Life is weird and it keeps on going.

Polaroid Week, Spring 2010, Polaroid Sun 660

Here are the Polaroid Sun 660 photos I shot last week for spring ‘roid week 2010.

Polaroid Week, Spring 2010, mini-instax diana f+ instant back

Here are the mini-instax diana f+ instant back shots I saved up and shared last week for spring ‘roid week 2010.

awkward guessing the metering in the driving snow, march 2009, that crazy great snow that melted almost immediately after dropping 6 inches in short order. went for a walk with cameras. still have a roll that shaun shot from that day undeveloped, which is kind of a magical thing to anticipate. our cameras and shaun’s beard accumulated about an inch of snow on this excursion.

When I was 15 I got my first camera. I had been borrowing my sister Jenny’s camera since I was 9 years old, actually, but my very own camera was given to me for Christmas by my aunt, Elaine & her daughter. It was a Kodak Cameo Motor-EX, fixed focus & auto flash. Nothing fancy about it, except for the photos it took. I discovered the lomography movement because people online thought I was shooting with an LCA.

2001

My parents got me a digital camera when I was 16, and I gave my Kodak Cameo to my cousin, because hers had been run over by a car (I’m sure there’s a funny story in there somewhere) and I regretted it pretty quickly. The thing was, I was 16, I could not afford film development, I did love my digital camera, and later that year I got my hands on a film SLR, which reintroduced me to the fact that I could not afford film development, but still, I missed my Kodak Cameo.

Earlier this year I was lamenting this camera. Two days later, I met one at Goodwill for $2. So fortuitous I could cry.

It’s just as awesome as I remembered it, with 8+ years photographic experience on top, ala cherry.

Polaroid Week!