for love of drawing

The crisp mountain air, the scary anorexic gravel and dirt roads next to some steep drops, the intimacy of family isolated in a lovely cabin...Ahhh...it was a change of scenery alright. I took my Diana F+ and some 120films and clicked to my heart's content. Or until the film ran out, whichever one was first. One valuable thing I learned is that I probably shouldn't do that because film is expensive and very finite, whereas I can actually click to my heart's content with my Canon 5d II and its 8g memory card. The power of the delete key never ceases to amaze me, and it's one of the reasons why I stay away from film.


And yet, film is fun! It's a surprise every time, specially since I can't develop it myself. I went to AZ Photo Labs here in Houston and ordered them in matte paper. It gets expensive though. My initial plan was to actually have them develop just the negatives and I'd scan them with my Canon LiDE 600F myself. But sinced I bought that scanner on Ebay and didn't apparently come with the negative film adaptor, I'd had to shell out some moolah.

These four are my favorites (I took 4 rolls, so you can see how well that turned out eh). I love how almost otherworldly they look. These particular four were taken with 100 speeds wide open (meaning I didn't use any of the negative adaptors that you put in the back of the Diana), which accounts for the vignetting.