camera dreams
When making my commitment to shooting only film last year, I motivated myself with the promise of a new camera. I had long coveted a pentax k1000 but decided I needed to be using film more regularly if I was going to get yet another camera! So after the best part of a year without my digital slr I received a pentax for my birthday. At first I was so unsure about using it. The k1000 is fully manual and I had put off getting my head around all the seemingly daunting specifics of aperture, shutter speed, f-stops, fractions, exposure in my photography thus far, mainly because shooting in automatic is so simple. This camera meant taking my loyalty to analogue photography up a level. After lots of research it turns out the best way to learn is to practice. I threw myself in the deep end and shot two rolls before getting any prints (granted this did take me several months). Going to pick the prints up from being developed I had no idea whether the photos would resemble anything like the images I had intended. Amazingly, I was thrilled with the results. It felt like some kind of magic, looking at the way the light had been captured by the camera. Super cheesy but there you have it. And so, after a nervous start, I am head over heels for my lovely pentax. Here are a few of the first photos I took..with the promise of many more to come.
mr blue sky
Where did summer go? We had the shortest stretch of sunshine, just enough to get us excited, and now it's back to grey skies and rain. Don't get me wrong, there is a time and a place to enjoy rain but I just don't think it is in June. Here's to sunny days, picnics in the park and adventures in new places..hoping they come soon!
hidden treasure
I recently got a bunch of rolls developed which I'm super excited to share with you over the coming months. But first, let me tell you about the best surprise film has given me yet. I found an old roll of film in my Holga which has been stuck in a box for as long as I can remember. I couldn't think at all what I had last taken pictures of and wasn't sure if the roll would still be in good enough condition to be processed. The pictures below may seem unimpressive but it turns out (I didn't even realise until my sister pointed it out to me) that they are from the day I got engaged. My lovely husband planned a surprise picnic but due to typical English weather relocated indoors and managed to set it up without me noticing. After lunch he popped the question. As I'm typing this I have just realised it is almost 4 years to the day since we got engaged...12th June 2012. It was so lovely to discover these photos and despite spectacularly cutting my ring out of the frame, they capture wonderful memories. And that is what taking photos is all about really.
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