Odd scans I did over a year ago. The middle photo is from Munich, I think. Not sure why but I really like the car upside down. The church is Mount Joy area of Dublin. Finally found more colour film in Dealz! (it's only €1.49 a role, but couldn't find it in Dublin for ages). So have some colour film experiments I want to do - anyone know of alternative processing/shooting one can do with colour film?
Random neg scans; most from over a year ago. Airport is Munich last summer, people are my family, and the woman in the street with the young dog was in Dublin, trying to show him how all the noises and movement are ok and not overly scary. Bits of Glengarra Forest and the side of Oj's neck also make an appearance.
Not exactly a photography post but - new climbing shoes! I've had a pair of 5Tens for a year, but my toe was starting to poke out the front and the rubber on the bottom was pealing ... Now just to break them in!
The above photos were taken with colour film and a red filter over the lens. I didn't buy the filter to go with colour film, I got it for some infrared film I had ordered online. But of course, when I buy a shiny (literally) photography item, it has to be used straight away. So I stuck it on over the film I had in at the time, and it definitely did what it said on the tin. The infrared film I bought it for, while I have shot it, has not been scanned yet, and I can't wait to see how it comes out. Technically, you're supposed to use a infrared filter, which happened to be €100 more expensive than this red one. And red is close to infrared, sure it's almost half the name! So ... here's hoping!
Waiting to scan rolls and rolls of film (really can't wait to see some double exposures I've done), but until I have a scanner, here are a couple of snaps from about two weeks ago.
Went to see the both the Natural History Museum and the National Museum of Archaeology a couple of weeks ago, seeing everything from thousands of animals, their skulls, religious artefacts, and bog men bodies (most considered to be people sacrificed to the earth to ensure the reign of a good king/bountiful harvest/good weather. Sections of their leathered bodies are all that remains.).
When I returned from France and started back waitressing, my next thought was how soon I could go back to the tent and the (intermittent) sunshine. The reason for me coming home to Dublin however was to work to save money for my next year of college. So what money could I decide was expendable on my itchy feet?
The reason I started waitressing was because as a waitress you get tipped, and that amounted to more money at the end of a shift. And as I sat outside during my break one of my first nights back (trying to rub some of the stiffness from my out-of-practice feet), I decided that the money that was given to me by my customers was in a sense "free money", or money that wasn't exactly mine. So when I got home, I took an empty Nutella jar (because everyone has those lying around), and superglued the lid shut. I pushed the notes and coins through the ill-cut hole in the top, and felt excited. Deciding to go all out, I Selotaped a scrap of paper to the front and wrote "France Fund".
In the money went, and I was lucky enough that my boyfriend Carl (who was living in France), actually came home twice; once as an almost surprise for my birthday, and again a week ago, to move some of his stuff back to Dublin. So the France Fund just continued to grow.
I didn't know it at the time, but putting this label on the jar and seeing it every night when I came home is what made me put all the money in, and not decide that keeping a bit to spend on chocolate or film or whatever was the best course of action. Over the past two weeks I have known that Carl is planning on moving back to Ireland, so I decided to use the money to pay my months rent. However since then, I have been unable to keep the money in the Jar. I was half thinking all the time, how seeing as I wasn't going to get back to France in the immediate future, that I might as well use just a tenner to go get some more milk, or use the coins as bus change. It was only yesterday that I realised all I had to do was change the label. I find, when I am not aiming for something, and have it firmly stuck in my head, I just flutter around and don't really make any progress anywhere. This is the same for my photography. I will sit and look at my camera more than I will shoot with it unless I have an idea of what I want to do, or feel motivated or inspired.
I don't know if any of this will help any of you, but if you feel like it, put some labels on jars and see where it takes you.
From a while ago when I visited home for a day
