tende

One of the side trips we took during my study abroad trip to France was a hike in the French Alps.  I recently chose a photo from that day to put as my desktop image on my computer and so I've been thinking about that hike a lot.  Decided to go through the photos and choose a few to post (there were 254 photos from that day, many of them almost identical cause I mean there were just a lot of really pretty mountain views, ha).

Train ride photos = favorite photos?

photographic inventory of photographs

A friend who was over at my apartment on Friday made the observation, upon seeing the decor in my bedroom, that I have a lot of photographs.  Of course, it's true, but I hadn't really paid attention to just how many are hanging on my walls and living in frames on every flat surface...

My desk

friday film

Just some film I had developed right before I came back to school for the semester.  I messed up the roll while rewinding and somehow managed to get the film completely out of the canister so that I couldn't remove it from the camera.  Luckily, I was able to catch the photo tech at Costco before his lunch break and he used the black tent thing they had to take the film out of my camera and put it into another canister for developing.  Some of the photos were wiped from the roll (I kept popping the back open to check to see if the film had rewound) and others have light leaks but overall the roll wasn't ruined, so that's a plus!
I shot this roll starting at the end of December through mid-January.  Each photo feels so much like home.

wednesday

I scanned this little collection of photos I took with my Polaroid today after deciding that each photo depicted one of my favorite things.  I was feeling pretty glad until the day pressed on and little-to-none of the snowfall promised for the area appeared (when there's a Winter Storm Warning in effect for the entire day, something HAS to happen, right??).  Work was awful and when I went outside, all there was to be seen was wet pavement reflecting the orange glow from the streetlamps.  

I dislike the winter but I'd sure like to see some snow.  If and when the winter decides to behave, there will be photographs abound.  I suppose there's some snow in the forecast for Friday, but after today's epic fail (I was promised anywhere between 2 and 8 inches and it seems to have fallen everywhere else in the state but here) I'm not sure if I can trust the weatherman anymore.  I've requested formal apologies from those forecasters who have lied to me via Facebook.

Also, picking back up the Polaroid for a little while (obviously).  I went on a small kick in October and the camera and film had been sitting dormant ever since.  Ideally, snow Polaroids will happen.  

What a weird post.  It's late, so that's my excuse.  Regular photoblogging to resume shortly?

monday

Just a few happy things to start off the week!

My order from Four Corner Store was waiting for me when I got home from class/the gym/lunch just now.  Ten rolls of film (the blue roll is ISO 200 Konica Centuria that I plan to shoot with my Konica, of course!) and a QuadCam, which I've never used but am looking forward to trying.  All this stuff was only $25, plus shipping! 

not photographs

Over Christmas break during a miniature photographic identity crisis I played around a little with paper and gluesticks and decided it was actually pretty fun.  Tonight, in an effort to avoid doing any actual schoolwork, I played around a little more.  Now's as good a time as ever to share what I've made so far, right?

This was my first attempt and my favorite to date

peanut butter cups

Today, I made candy for the first time.  Evin's grandma always makes a delicious assortment of candies for holidays and I've taken quite a liking to her homemade chocolate peanut butter cups (she sends them to Evin in the mail and I snatch them up).  Since I couldn't go up to her house over winter break to visit (/learn how to make these delicious treats), she did the next best thing for me: created a cute little gift package containing everything I'd need to recreate them myself.  This morning I gave it a shot.  The recipe was rather simple, but putting together all those peanut butter cups was time consuming.  SO worth it, though!