Wow, it has been three out-of-town trips since the last time I had some photos developed from my analog camera. Life has been so eventful in the past 4 months, but I don’t think you’d be able to tell from these photos anyway. When reality is this much fun, sometimes I would opt for an instant way to immortalise the moment–choosing digital over analog cameras. Also, since the flash to my camera is broken, it really limits where we can take photos to keep as memories. That being said, these frames are unique all on their own—a lot of them mix perfect timing with raw emotional values—and you wouldn’t know the weight of them without the right context. You just had to be there.
The first half of these photos—shown above—were taken on our trip to Solo. As you know, these are only a tiny snippet of everything we got up to on that trip. With this roll, I was also testing the limit to the camera and film I was using to see how bright should a place be to be visible on the frame. It turns out there were a lot of wasted frames where you could barely make out the silhouettes of whatever was there—I reckon these photos were taken indoors which, although looked bright enough for my eyes, apparently wasn’t bright enough for an analog camera lens with ISO 200 and no flash. I’m glad, though, that the photos that are visible turn out to be such lovely frames.
The second half of these photos are mostly taken on my trip to Makassar and Bali. I’m a bit heartbroken to know that, apparently, the inside of the local’s house where we stayed in Makassar—the exterior of which is pictured below—was too dark for my analog camera. I mean, I’ve got the digital version of it, of course, but it just isn’t the same. I loved capturing the house’s façade with an analog camera, though—seems fitting somehow. The last photos are from the time my friend Mimin and I went to Warung Italia in Bali—I’d wanted to go there for ages! I have a bit of regret for not taking photos of the surrounding rice field.
Wow, it has been three out-of-town trips since the last time I had some photos developed from my analog camera. Life has been so eventful in the past 4 months, but I don’t think you’d be able to tell from these photos anyway. When reality is this much fun, sometimes I would opt for an instant way to immortalise the moment–choosing digital over analog cameras. Also, since the flash to my camera is broken, it really limits where we can take photos to keep as memories. That being said, these frames are unique all on their own—a lot of them mix perfect timing with raw emotional values—and you wouldn’t know the weight of them without the right context. You just had to be there.
The first half of these photos—shown above—were taken on our trip to Solo. As you know, these are only a tiny snippet of everything we got up to on that trip. With this roll, I was also testing the limit to the camera and film I was using to see how bright should a place be to be visible on the frame. It turns out there were a lot of wasted frames where you could barely make out the silhouettes of whatever was there—I reckon these photos were taken indoors which, although looked bright enough for my eyes, apparently wasn’t bright enough for an analog camera lens with ISO 200 and no flash. I’m glad, though, that the photos that are visible turn out to be such lovely frames.
The second half of these photos are mostly taken on my trip to Makassar and Bali. I’m a bit heartbroken to know that, apparently, the inside of the local’s house where we stayed in Makassar—the exterior of which is pictured below—was too dark for my analog camera. I mean, I’ve got the digital version of it, of course, but it just isn’t the same. I loved capturing the house’s façade with an analog camera, though—seems fitting somehow. The last photos are from the time my friend Mimin and I went to Warung Italia in Bali—I’d wanted to go there for ages! I have a bit of regret for not taking photos of the surrounding rice field.
After seeing this batch and comparing it with the previous one, I’d love to take more photos of people or the human experience—whatever that means. I’m hoping for sunny days, so I can capture more beautiful moments on this camera. I want to take it out more often, maybe everywhere I go so I won’t miss a single memorable moment that I’d want to remember in the future. The next few months will also hopefully be eventful for me, so I hope to collect as many of those moments as I possibly can. I suppose the more I regularly take analog photos, the more it will get old for this blog, but for now I’d like to share more frames with you. I hope you enjoy them too!
After seeing this batch and comparing it with the previous one, I’d love to take more photos of people or the human experience—whatever that means. I’m hoping for sunny days, so I can capture more beautiful moments on this camera. I want to take it out more often, maybe everywhere I go so I won’t miss a single memorable moment that I’d want to remember in the future. The next few months will also hopefully be eventful for me, so I hope to collect as many of those moments as I possibly can. I suppose the more I regularly take analog photos, the more it will get old for this blog, but for now I’d like to share more frames with you. I hope you enjoy them too!