cobaltika

apples in afternoon : ensign ful-vue with lumix fz7

another trend i have taken up with for these frigid winter times. it is *so* much fun and rather magical. making images through the viewfinder of a box camera makes me feel like a photographer of history, that thrill and amazement of “capture”. so far i have not created a “contraption”, as many use, but like the flexibility of being handheld. it *is* hard though! i know i am going to acquire an awful cramp in my back.

but it will be worth it. magic is worth a little distress.

that same truck in the neighborhood : brownie hawkeye flash

i am in love with this camera! of course there is a certain intimacy because i opened her up and looked at her insides and cleaned her nicely and even put her back together without killing her. then took her out, with her silly little plastic handle and made a set of pictures with her. today the film was returned to me and i was delighted!! there are more on flickr upon clicking the image.

otherwise it is a pleasant and busy saturday. much packing and shipping this morning. etsy is fun! then post office, food and household products, laundry and a little cleaning. film scanning. a dinner of pasta with ricotta, spinach, walnuts and morningstar farms fake bacon. red wine. yep. and soon an Italian Epic Film (don’t ask me. i like to be surprised). all seems well today except for worries about my small girl, so far away and young. there always lurks that missing thing. about the girls. and my family. i try to beat it down and carry on. because what else can i do?

lita’s mexican restaurant : east austin texas : july 2006

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church : north lawrence kansas : december 2006

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these are my two new favorite images. i am in love with my Valiant plastic camera. it has taken a while. what? 3 years? but it seems i *finally* have learned to use it. or else i am getting really lucky! as much as i hate scanning negatives, i was actually squealing with joy when scanning the last three rolls, because i loved them all! too bad i have used my good scanner that does film to scan BEESWAX ART and stuff with glitter on it!!! well. i guess it gives the images an ancient look?

i wonder if clicking the images will go to flickr? i tried to make that happen here. i still haven’t figured a way to make photo pages work in a way i like on my own site yet.

wheee! a gloomy saturday to stay in!

this is a new favorite image. it’s from FILM. and my Smena8M. i’m always pretty excited when i make images using film and actually LIKE them. i doubt anyone would love this as i do, but that’s ok. i have a bad habit of opening the back of the camera sometimes because i can’t remember if i have film in there or not. i try to do it in the dark, but sometimes Things Happen. i usually like the surprises. this is the remaining wall of a wonderful old garage or carriage house by our old studio on the east side. i have photos of it. i want to find them now. when i drove by one day, on the way to feed traci’s kitties, i saw it GONE and thought “that fucking developer! i thought he wasn’t going to tear down any structures???” so a month or so ago, traci and i were having a photo wander near there and went to investigate. it seems there was a fire instead of demolition. (yeah. right.)

we are having indian summer and there is a wicked wind out there. it seems evil. the whole world seems evil this week. but i know it is not nature that i should worry about. it is the people. i try to be openhearted and conscious, but sometimes living as an alien, with my head in the sand and trying not to pay attention to all of the IDIOTS in the world seems preferable. but then i feel guilty for not Doing Something. what in the hell could i DO? really.