A million years ago (well only nearly two) we had our wedding reception. At that reception we had cameras. I had the best intentions of taking those things right to the lab to be developed but they sat… and sat…. and sat. I’m such a procrastinator. Finally I took the damn things to the photo place and developed them. We got some really great and funny pictures. There were also a few pictures from our honeymoon in Montreal. We brought one of the cameras with us.
These are my two favorites.
The Biosphere
Random building when we were just wandering about one of the days
When I was working my old job I had quite a bit of down time so I was constantly trying to find ways to entertain myself. One day I was really bored and just started looking around at different things and stumbled on a fantastic website all about lomography. I was in wedding planning mode and trying to figure out interesting things for our party. I really wanted to rent a photo booth but after talking to a couple companies about the cost that idea was thrown out. So I resigned to the idea of disposable cameras.
Looking through the lomography site I found that they had these little disposable cameras that had color filters for the flash. They seemed like fun and definitely a more interesting option. I bought 20 of them. They worked out great. We got some really interesting pictures from them. Better than the usual blown out red eye demon pics you get with most disposable flash cameras.
Over the past week or so I’ve been obsessively researching digital cameras. I’m kind of pissed at mine taking such noisy pictures. For the most part it’s a good camera but in some lower light situations it doesn’t do very well. I found a couple options and was ready to drop some money but changed my mind a little when I got all these pictures back. The 5 or 6 we took in Montreal with the little $5 plastic camera were much more interesting than most of the 400 we took with the digital.
So today I bought a Holga.
I’ve kind of wanted one for a couple years but was thinking film is a pain. You have to take it in and then wait for it to come back, blah blah blah.. But I’m feeling nostalgic. Digital cameras are satisfying and definitely serve a purpose. You can look at the image right away and laugh at your friends stupid pose or whatever. But what about enjoying a vacation, coming back home feeling a little bummed to be back to the grind. You pick up your pictures and look through them enjoying the trip all over again. That’s what’s lost with digital, the delay that allows you to forget just a little bit and be reminded. You can always browse through your pictures on the computer but it’s just not the same.
I’m excited. I haven’t had a film camera in probably 6 (maybe longer) years except for disposable ones. It’ll be a fun new adventure.