I had a lovely weekend. On Valentines Day I went took Fran to the Farmers Market at Union Square and then to that cool Housing Works Bookstore on Crosby Street where I went for the first time with Amanda. Then we went out to Crosby Street and took about 200 pictures with my camera. Later on that evening we went to restaurant we frequent called 111 on 111 and Bdway to see a friend play the upright bass in his jazz band and dine in a very chill atmosphere, free of the usual VDAY mania.
Somewhere between Sunday and Monday I purchased a Holga camera on Amazon and then managed the wining bid for a collapsible vintage SX70 Polaroid Land Camera on ebay. They were both relatively affordable although obviously the film for cameras no longer in circulation are very expensive since the film is no longer manufactured. 120 film is like 10 dollars a role! SX70 I'm still shopping around for on ebay. Why go to all the trouble you ask! Well, first remember that I am a person who loves stationary so much that I collect a ton of it even though I hardly write anyone! I have a stash of stationary at work that I acquired from a surplus give away on the tenth floor last week! So this kind of insanity is not beyond me. The other reason is that Holga Cameras are capable of taking pictures like this and Polaroid SX70 takes pic like this.
I'm crazy about the interesting flaws in accidental photography or photography that isn't all polished and beautiful and controlled so I want to experiment with that as well as all the numerous dial modes on my SLR which produce any number of effects both subtle and extreme. Yesterday we did white balance exercises in my digital photography class. A bit confusing to say the least.