Anastasia Gammon

Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Bodmin Moor on film.

Can you believe it, this is actually the first roll of colour film I've ever shot?* We always used black and white film at school, and I got my first digital camera when I was pretty young (a cute little thing that didn't even use a memory card so if the batteries fell out, which they often did, I would lose all the pictures I had taken) so, although I'm sure I took a few colour pictures when I was younger, this is the first roll all of my own. And I shot it twice...

This roll of film sat in my camera for three years. Three whole years. I took a few frames while I was at uni but last year I decided it was time to finally use it up. Only when I got to the end it kept going. And kept going. Eventually my dad took the camera into the coat cupboard at home to take a look and discovered that, as we had feared, the film had never been wound on in the first place.

For three years this film had sat in my dad's old Olympus OM-10, the camera I had used and loved so much at school, and I had not actually taken a single photograph on it.

If it hadn't been so funny I would have been furious.

Luckily, I have a good sense of humour. So when we went back out to Minions for another walk around Bodmin Moor a few months ago I decided it might be time to finally, actually, use up this film. I took a lot of pictures (and there were a lot of jokes about hoping the film was wound on this time) and these are honestly the only ones that are any good, but I don't think that's too bad going. I'm pretty pleased with them.

I'm not crazy about the film I've used though, it's honestly just the only film I had. I got a whole lot of it with a Lomography camera a few years ago and I've still got a whole lot of it lying around, so I will use it up, but if anyone has any suggestions for a good colour film to use with the OM-10 I am all ears!

Hopefully this will mark a little bit of a return to film for me. Hopefully I will find a film I like better and get better at editing the results. Hopefully the films will all, always, be wound on.

EDIT: It isn't. I somehow forgot that I shot a few rolls with my Lomography camera years ago, even though I mention that camera later on in this post. Sorry! This is my first "proper" set of colour prints though. My Colorsplash camera is not exactly designed for serious photography.

Monday, 8 August 2016

Housekeeping.

Housekeeping, get it? IDK my mum was washing the net curtains a few weeks ago and I was in the kitchen and I just really liked the view of our wild, fern-filled front garden beyond the washing up.

So, I'm bad at balancing things. I've been focusing a lot more on my writing this year, which is good! But it means I've sort of been neglecting blogging a little, which is bad. I go weeks at a time without reading a single blog post, spend an evening getting all caught up, and then do the whole thing again. I've been posting here, yes, but taking weeks and months to write posts and reply to comments. And, most importantly, I have photographs from all the way back in March that I haven't even edited yet, never mind posted.

So, that's the first thing I want to deal with. I need to find the balance with photography and writing. Something I have, honestly, always struggled with. I love both equally but it seems I have a hard time doing both at the same time. I'm going to fix that though! There are going to be a lot of photography posts coming up. I mean A LOT. Maybe some writing too.

Also, I'm thinking about changing the name of this blog. But that's a discussion for another post. If I ever get to it.

For now, just get ready for a lot of photos of flowers and sheep. And beetles! Well, one beetle. Whatever, you'll see.

Monday, 25 July 2016

BookTubeAThon 2016 day seven.

And the BookTubeAThon is over for another year! I may not have read as many books for it this year as last year but I think I did okay.

Sunday, 24 July 2016

BookTubeAThon 2016 day six.

Only one more day! I'm hoping to finish Sea of Monsters and watch the movie today. Wish me speedy reading!

Saturday, 23 July 2016

BookTubeAThon 2016 day five.

I finally finished The Blessing!!! And Proposal too! There has been a little bit of a change of plan though. I realised there is no way I'm going to be able to read The Book Thief and watch the movie this weekend, so I've decided to go for the only other book on my TBR with a movie adaptation, Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters. See you tomorrow for another update.