After taking my trusty Actionsampler Chrome around for a few weeks, I couldn’t remember what 4 x 4 images I had snapped. I love not knowing what photos to expect when opening the prints!
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Lomography
Instant gratification rules these days. We want what we want and we want it now… Facebook and Twitter updates are sent immediately to our palms, news travels fast and if you blink it is easy to miss a trend or a soundbite or a viral video. When out at a club, on vacation, or sitting on the beach with friends it is easy to vet digital images and delete the ones that are less than satisfactory – “I’m cross-eyed!” “I forgot to smile!” “Who’s that creeper photo-bombing in the background?!” There is a certain self-selection that occurs, and it occurs in real-time. Tagging, pinning, uploading.
Because of this, there is something calming and nostalgic about the click-snap of a camera, winding the film, and taking the milky opaque canisters to the local CVS. Or in my case, the nice old man’s shop on Forest Avenue who still processes 120 mm film.
Up until relatively recently — before some late-night, vodka-fueled online shopping with the boyfriend led us to www.lomography.com — I was happy to indulge in iPhoneography, Hipstamatic and images downloaded off my trusty, ancient Kodak digital camera that survived four years of a liberal arts education (read: dropped on the quad repeatedly, dented and bruised by house parties off-campus at the cool-kids’ Lewiston apartments, and schlepped here, there, and everywhere.)
Added to the photo arsenal: the Actionsampler, Oktomat, Smena 8m, Colorsplash and my personal favorite, the Holga.
Sure, the pictures from the Lomography cameras are not perfect. They are raw and real; stillshots of the unpredictability of life. But I like that.
Don’t get me wrong…I will still update my Tumblr Glittermatic with Hipstamatic uploads. My dented Kodak will still get air time.
The below images are a nice supplement, though.
Hot Off The Dress 