the joys of using someone else's camera

katie has been nice enough to let me use her manual camera, so that i can take pictures during my family project that i know for certain will come out.

when she gave me the camera there was an old roll of film left in it that i finished off.

when it was developed, i found this. pictures from bowling in 2005.

hilarious and a fun surprise.

so, courtesy of k. lennard, me 5 yrs ago.

my grandfather

grandpa busche fixing the lawnmower someone else fixed wrong.

someday i hope to have my grandfather's hands: capable, strong, full of the knowledge of how to do things. they look like they have worked hard, there was always dirt or grease embedded in them, i love my grandpa and his hands.

film from the last month or two

the start of the family project, film

polaroid success

i'll have to figure out what's making the light leak, but otherwise pretty happy with the results.

polaroid tests

about 6 yrs ago i bought a polaroid land camera.

it was $4 dollars at the thrift store, and i thought, purely nice to look at, most likely not working, and impossible to find film for.

fast forward to my birthday this year, at Weegee's, when a guy took my photo with one of these cameras. this started me looking for the film. leftover stock from polaroid, and alternative films.

at the impossible project i bought old stock, in color and chocolate.

and i found that fuji still makes type 100 film, color and B&W.

so I started testing my camera.

once i figured out that the battery was dead, i stopped getting black pictures.

then i started playing with light levels.

conclusion: photos inside, don't work so well.

at the end of the pier

so windy and cold still, but a beautiful view of the lake and the city