off we go

we're going to eilat - yay!

in the meantime, origami on film. :)

enjoy your weekend and see you next week

green, pink and orange

i have been completely offline. didn't even upload any photos from my camera. it's pesach vacation, so i have the house full of kids and one of my oldest friends from denmark is visiting with her son. i think that explains it all :)

so, consider this a little interlude, some film shots from the garden a while back. i will be back here and visiting your blogs soon.

happy easter to everyone!

tel aviv on film

it's not pretty, but i still love that city. the energy, the constant development and change in appearance, the contrasts and the little surprises.

i am still organizing around here and kids are home for pesach - a combination that doesn't leave much time for blogging, so this is just a quick hello and catching up will have to wait a little while longer.

wishing you a beautiful weekend.

spring pales

i got my second and third film back a few days ago. i wasn't super excited about the result, but some turned out well, so i will be sharing a few more later.

do you process your film photos? i am not sure why, but contrary to my digital photos - where i like to crop, adjust colors, contrast and brightness - i have this feeling that it's "cheating" if i do it to the film photos. film is about authenticity, no? or am i being too orthodox, like newbies sometimes have a tendency to be?

wishing you a beautiful weekend.

soft and beautiful

so i mentioned that i would like some arrows to show me the direction. i feel a bit like these little seeds as they float in the air: it's pretty, and it feels good to be carried by the wind, but it mainly makes me dizzy, it's hard to focus - and i cannot help but wonder, anxiously, where i will land.

i was just writing a looong post about the things i am considering and what is going on, but i don't feel ready or capable to talk about it (i am writing it as if there's something specific. there isn't, which is the problem). so i deleted what i wrote. i am confused, ambivalent, caught between what is good for one thing, what is good for another, and what is good for something else. what is good for family, what is good in the long run, in the short run, and what is good for me, now, tomorrow and next year. it is such a puzzle to make financial, emotional, family, relationship etc ends meet. to make a good compromise, to make everyone as happy as i would like them to be. including myself.

to match this kind of unfocused and blurry talk, i thought, i would share a few more shots from my first role of film. i know: under exposed and too close up - but there's something about them i like. maybe the stillness, the softness, is what appeals, what i need...

here is to soft and beautiful landings.

first film

these are from my first try with film. i found an old olympus trip 35 in my local thrift store, which a little googling told me is a simple, yet solid and - back in the 60s and 70s - very popular. it was cheap so i decided to give it a go. i have a lot to learn: it is such a different experience from the digital.

the complete lack of feed back in terms of light, focus and distance did, that i decided this first role of film to be a test - playing with settings and distance. and among the things i learned was, that i have to back off quite a bit ;) i would be more than happy to receive feedback and advice from you film shooters out there as i am beginning my second role of film.