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Although I've dreamed of having my own dslr, my first love with regard to photography would be film cameras. Prior to my fascination with lomography I was already interested in film photography in general. Admittedly, however, I never dabbled in photography up until college and I only used our old digicam. But I always was charmed by how pictures would come out using film. I loved that you couldn't manipulate how the pictures would look like once the film was developed. No way to photoshop, unless you scan the printed shot and do your magic with it on the computer. I would flip through photography books and be amazed with how photographers in the old days would capture such great shots without having the convenience of deleting them from their cameras and keep on taking pictures until they were certain they had the right shot. I guess it was more of a gut feel thing for them. My view on photography's like that. Whenever I go out and use any one of my film cameras, I just pray that the shots would turn out nice and I'd click the day away. I'd imagine in my head how the pictures would come out. Some of the shots were successful, some weren't, and a lot of films were just either underexposed or overexposed. Oh well, I'm still learning.

This set of pictures were all taken last year. I just had the films developed last week and you could just imagine how giddy I was when I finally got the package in the mail with all the developed films and the shots transferred to CDs. I just had to check the pictures already :p Hopefully my next set of films will turn out to have more successful shots.

At the National Museum, Manila

One of my grandmother's orchid plants

Red wall, Red door

Would you like some wine?

The things you do with a bit of alcohol...

Kusina Salud, San Pablo, Laguna

Some mistakes turn out right in the end :)

Room 2, Casa San Pablo, San Pablo, Laguna

Sampaloc Lake, San Pablo, Laguna

Delayed Flight=Spare time to wander off in the airport

Manila City Hall Clock Tower

Green and Red don't always look too Christmas-y

Shall we take a dip?

Or enjoy the scenery?

another quick update

Sorry sorry sorry! I promise I'll post something longer and hopefully more substantial tomorrow. Been busy with lots of things lately. Besides work, have been working on a sideline job, organizing get-togethers, fixing my room, and planning my future (haha!).

As a preview of what I'll post tomorrow, and thinking about all my backlog entries, I'll be sharing with you some of the pictures I took with my babies, i.e. my film cameras. I have this weird fascination with using film and not knowing how my shots will look like after. Lomograpy/film photography is an expensive hobby, I know. But I love the thrill and anticipation of finding out if my shots were successful or not. And even if the shots don't turn out as pretty as I wanted them to be, I still like all the pictures that come out. I've had most of my films undeveloped for a year already which is why I was so excited to get the CDs in the mail last week. Thanks to Digiprint for developing and transferring the shots first on CD so I wouldn't waste more money printing shots I don't want to frame. Will be hanging a few of the nicer shots on my wall to add a bit of quirkiness to my room. Just to add, I love it that Digiprint develops different kinds of films for an affordable rate. First film costs Php 150 and the next 4 films cost Php 30 each!

take me out!!

I think if my Holga could talk, that's what it would be telling me. So I've decided to take my dear ol' Holga camera Smiley Cyrus out tomorrow. First I have to buy 120 mm film then I'll go around Ortigas tomorrow and take random shots. Then I'll run to the nearest Fujifilm then have the film developed which would probably take 2 days. One word: Excited!!

oh holga I miss you so!

I'm itching to take my Holga out. It's been months since I last used it. And I have yet to have my films developed because it's so expensive. Thank God for Digiprint discounts on film processing! :)

Manila, Manila...Angono, Angono!

Over dinner, I was telling my friend (poeta fit, non nascitur) earlier about a picture that another friend took a couple of weeks ago when we went on a random photo shoot at Intramuros and the bayside (here in Manila). I'm so in love with this shot. It's so beautiful that it makes you wonder if it's a real shot or not.


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Another picture I like (taken by the same friend who took the first picture) was of the gate to Fort Santiago. Fort Santiago is located inside Intramuros--where most of the Spaniards lived when they were still here in the Philippines (we were Spain's colony from 1516 until 1898...I'm not sure about 1516, but I do know we became a colony of Spain some time in the 1500s). Of course my friend fiddled with the settings of her camera to get this shot, but I absolutely love this picture.



Another favorite shot (I have a lot of favorite shots, actually. Hahaha) is of me while I was fixing my Holga. I think this was inside the Rizal Museum (also in Intramuros).



I'm excited for my next photo adventure (which will be next week). Off we'll go to Angono! Hopefully, I'll be able to post pictures taken using my Holga .It's quite expensive to have lomography as a hobby. You spend quite a lot on film and having it developed. I have 3 rolls of film that have yet to be developed, and I have 3 or 4 more that have yet to be used. Am excited to shoot once again! I could walk around Ortigas during the day and take pictures, but the weather's too unpredictable nowadays that I'd rather stay inside the office than stroll outside during my breaks.

*All pictures taken by Kristine Dalisay*