forbidden city, fall 2009

thank you Li+Belle for teaching me how to achieve this "toy" effect. as i have said in my profile, i don't have post-processing software (at least, not that i actually use) and prefer to just show my photos straight out of the camera (probably one of the reasons i also prefer film over digital). but this? i am in love with this effect and will be playing around with it a lot i am sure. and thank you for honoring me with the One Lovely Blog award as well~! i am deeply humbled~!

my holga is on the blitz. the shutter feels soft and doesn't click any longer, so it's creating these ultra blurred photos which i'm sort of enjoying lately. do you see the red sun in the reflection of that first photo?

(holga 120N, kodak ektar 100)

i honestly cannot describe to you how much i love this dog.
i have never in all of my life loved an animal this much.
to call him animal is just silliness. he is my family, my best friend,
my boy, my buddy.

he has special powers, as a friend once said :o)

and every single solitary day i wake up and i still see this smiling face,
well, that is the best damn day ever.

i love my Boob.

and i did just type that for the world to see :)

don't you wish you could, at least for a moment, just stand still in the wind? nothing but that. no phone. no obligations. no work. no traffic or noise. just you, the clear blue sky, the sun and the wind.

on a side note, i just splurged and picked up THIS and THIS. i am recently very interested in the history of photography and am reading everything i can get my hands on. i am also currently reading THIS (sent as a gift from my future father-in-law)... powerful. what is not described in this link are the stories that narrate each photograph, the cameras used, and the climate of the time in which the picture was taken. i have taken a tremendous interest in photojournalism since watching this film: Not As I Pictured, and am very grateful that its creator lives in my small college town, and we've come to know one another and will be meeting in the next couple of weeks (and, as it turns out, his work was featured in Moments). i am humbled and star struck and will no doubt fumble my way through that lunch :)

if you see no other documentary in your life, see this one. you will not regret it. even if cancer has never touched your life, this film will. you can get a copy through the website linked above and also view the trailer.

(pentax, fuji superia 400)