.:SAYMOARNAO:.

Things I like and things I've made. Original images and content © 2011 -.2017.

[saymoarnao]

Wow, bathtub

[danismm]

The New Yorker, Feb. 11 1961 via shelleysdavies  artist - Charles Addams

[saymoarnao]

Birds

[saymoarnao]

New digs.

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_Paul McCartney; London/Londres; Chiswick Park/Parque Chiswick; May 20th 1966/20 de maio de 1966.

_Source/Fonte: Solo Beatles Photos Forum.

[saymoarnao]

Here’s yet another classic camera porn image starring a young Paul McCartney, this time with what looks to be a totally tricked-out Rolleiflex on the set of filming the video the Beatles’ “Rain”

[demidelanuit]

[saymoarnao]

Yowza

[gameraboy]

Sorry about the mess

[saymoarnao]

Han shot first, captured on film

[saymoarnao]

This mullet belongs in a museum

[daggersandmoonlight-blog]

Starting to get used to the Lomo’Instant camera. It helps to have good subjects. Sadly, I am almost out of the stash of film that came with the camera and I am as broke as ever.

[poeboy77]

[retropopcult]

1975

[saymoarnao]

That little girl looks to be about my age: about 8 or 9 in 1975, the year “Jaws” came out. Of course I remember the proliferation of toys, especially pool toys, released to cash in, but the look on the mother’s face here is cracking me up. “Jaws” was a fucking scary movie that opened with a naked woman getting eaten alive, and here’s Mom all like “Oh sure honey, have fun recreating that scene because that’ll train you for how MEN treat you when you’re GROWN.”

I do love Mom’s outfit. 

[the-ablest-navigators]

Projected on an exterior wall of Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport. I managed to get a quick video as I exited the parking area. Within a few minutes it had disappeared, and security appeared.

Inside, the Southwest Airlines security personnel at baggage claim welcomed us at the top of their lungs “We welcome EVERYONE to Atlanta!” and singing “We Are Family” and “Welcome Back” (Mr. Kotter’s theme song.)

Kindness and recognition of our shared humanity reigned.

#Resist

[saymoarnao]

As a a native of the Atlanta area, I am proud to see this

[johbeil]

Prisoners’ suitcases, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

In Recognition of Holocaust Memorial Day

[daggersandmoonlight-blog]

Luke ‘n Darth

[saymoarnao]

For all its looks, the Lomo’Instant is quite robust for an instant camera. It only has two shutter speeds - 1/125 and B - but it has a nice range of apertures, defaulting to f16. The challenge for me will be to remember to use the different apertures at appropriate times. For example, this multiple exposure would have benefited greatly from having been shot at f11. I wound up having to mess around with it in my image editing software to punch it up. Why didn’t I try the same scene again? I likely will.

[saymoarnao]

Lomography sent me their half of the prizes I won from that contest back in the autumn. Pleasantly, the lovely marketing and PR manager who I was talking to there sent me this nice camera kit with three lenses and a strap instead of just a camera with no lenses, which she easily could have done since the contest didn’t specify anything more than a camera and film.

I haven’t been able to test the camera and show off any shots, since it literally just arrived like an hour ago, and we don’t have any AAA batteries on hand.But like all Lomography products, the kit itself is top-notch. In addition to the beautiful packaging for all of us design freaks, there are of course front and back caps for all lenses, colored gels for the on-board flash, detailed instruction books (in multiple languages) for both camera and lenses, and a set of cards showing a large range of effects that can be gotten with this camera, and the settings used to obtain them.

Keeping in mind that Instax film isn’t the cheapest thing in the world but that it is MUCH cheaper than Impossible Project, I am absolutely delighted to have this camera.

[waterflea]

(Fall 1977): I was in Grade 11.

[saymoarnao]

I was 11 years old, in Grade 4 because I had been held back a year due to my late birthday. My father was very interested in science and astronomy, and we as a family closely followed the development and launch of the Voyager spacecraft. I have pretty good memories of this period of my life.

[saymoarnao]

I still have piles of film to process

and I can’t afford to do it. :(

Lomography never sent me my prize. Apparently, the marketing director in charge of getting it to me got caught up in helping the warehouse in getting holiday shipments out, and it slipped her mind. And in a twist of fortune, she offered me a Lomo’Instant camera instead of a La Sardina as a consolation prize for the delay. 

I totally jumped at that one. I mean, the La Sardina looks like a fun camera, but I’ve got a small pile of 35mm cameras that take similar photos -- but I do not have an instant camera that uses Fuji Instax film. I can walk into my local Walgreen’s or Walmart and buy that stuff anytime. I might even be able to buy it at my local supermarket; I’ll need to check though. The Lomo’Instant line look to have an array of creative features such as double exposure and B capability and you can get extra lenses for them. Best of all, I won’t have to spend money having the film processed. I can just throw the photos on my scanner, make sure they look acceptable in my processing software, and then upload the best ones.

I am stoked. Now, I just have to wait for my contact at Lomography to remember to send me the camera. ^_^

My other news is a bit more somber. My husband and I will be undertaking a trial separation, starting as soon as my parents finishing redoing the downstairs spare room for me to live in. It has been a very difficult decision for me as I love him very much, but I feel it is for the best. Since my diagnosis with MS, he has become more and more emotionally unstable, and now he is at the point where he is virtually unemployable. Autism plays a role here -- he has been clinically diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. I feel like he has too much to bear and that living apart semi-permanently will do us both a world of good.