A story in black & white

photos taken with the Hipstamatic app on my iTouch.

The scene: Saturday morning at Alki
The players: A bench. A beach. A seagull duel. Some breakfast. Me & Greg.

Doesn't the black and white just make everything look so... dramatic?

Dum dum dum.....

(It was a pretty drama free morning actually, but doesn't that vignetting just make everything look just so serious and moody?)

Good times.

first roll from the Golden Half

So... The Golden Half camera is a half-frame 35mm film camera that takes two exposures for every one frame of film. If you play your cards right, at the end of the roll you basically get a bunch of random diptychs.

Cool right? Well, Costco failed to follow my instructions when I got this roll of film developed and processed them all individually. Besides being super expensive to process, it is also slightly annoying as I'll probably re-diptych them all later, In the meantime, here are a few shots, hot off the CD for your viewing pleasure.

I can't even remember when some of these photos were taken. Sadly, I do know that it took me over a year to finish this one roll of film. Getting these developed was a bit like opening a time capsule. 

I love this hobby. 

And getting this particular roll all finished off and developed helps me to accomplish my goal of using a roll of film in each of my (functioning) cameras this year. I just have to finish off some stuff in my Oktomat and that waterproof camera I just got, and then figure out where to get 110 film developed..as I picked up a tiny fisheye spycam at the thriftstore early last spring.

The other roll I got done today was a roll of color film for my Holga 135BC. There are some adorably woodsy photos in there that I'm excited to share with you later this week.

Bakery Adventure + Hipstamatic App

Even getting coffee on the weekend is more exciting with my i-touch camera and some funky camera apps. It's like all the fun of analog film but with the instant gratification of digital.

Speaking of, I do have like three rolls of film I need to get developed....I need to go drop those off.

Hope you get to see some pretty sights to photograph today. :)

The best camera is the one you have with you

So... I went a little MIA from the internet due to my vacation this week. It was so relaxing. The trip was full of  pretty scenery, decent food and quality time with my sweetie (photo recap pending). It was indeed good times. But one bad thing did happen that I am compelled to share today.

On our hike through the Hoh Rain Forest, I forgot to take my Ipod out of my (supposedly) rainproof backpack. This lack of electronics paranoia cost me my Ipod, because when the backpack soaked through, enough water got through that the Ipod was basically ruined. (funnily enough, this was the same backpack that my Rebel died in... it's possibly cursed, at this point) I tried letting my poor little pod dry out (even used some rice) but when I took it to the Apple store today, it was pronounced DOA.

Single tear. Moment of silence, etc etc.

On the bright side, I got to turn in my old Ipod classic to be recycled and that got me a sweet 10% discount on a fancy new Ipod Touch (4th gen). It's got pretty much everything I like about the IPhone, without the pesky phone or service plan part.

I picked up free apps for google reader, flickr and twitter. The WiFi coverage in Seattle is pretty good, and I'm so excited to play with these.

Of course I was most excited about the camera feature. And Apps! And learning to type with my thumbs!

I picked up the hipstamatic, the plastic bullet and the incredibooth apps.

Here are some samples from our walk through the Arboretum this evening.

Plastic Bullet Shots

Incredibooth shots

Couldn't get any shots from the hipstamatic as the app crashed... will try to get more later this week.

So in love with these. All the lo-fi goodness of toy cams with the instant gratification of digital. Hurray.

Do you have any suggestions for cool apps I should know about? Tell! Tell!

Peace out. I'm going back to work tomorrow so I'm going to try and go to bed at a reasonable hour. Bleh.

meet the new kids

These are my two newest cameras.. Yue and Trent. One is a Golden Half and one is a Polaroid 100. I love the contrast between them... new lomo and old school polaroid.

So excited to see what pictures they will take.

I've got a trip coming up next month... a road trip + some time at Greg's family cabin.. I have been trying to decide what cameras to take... I think possibly these two and the Rebel. Or maybe all three and Mustache (my SX-70). FYI, we call him Mustache because he's from the 70s and for some reason Greg's 'stache looks really pronounced in all the photos we take. Speaking of... I need to listen to Sabotage, right now.

peace out.