The boat life on film

The holidays are a strange time for me. When every one is free, its usually the time I am the busiest. Despite a plug exploding when I put a charger in, burning two fingers pretty badly and a ton of work,  I managed to slip away to Knysna for a night on a house boat.

These are a few moments caught on film. Id like to add here that Lani Spice has been an amazing friend and inspiration, getting me to pick up my camera again.

Best way to end a Monday

I got to finish this tempered 35 degree day with the ultimate reward, fetching film from Orms. Good old Fuji 400. Here a few snippets from the Rollei...

Before there was Instagram, there were cameras

Now dont get me wrong, in no way am I an Instagram hater. I appreciate what it does and if (sponsors see opportunity here) I had a smarter-then-a-blackberry phone I'd Instagram my life away, but there is nothing like developing your own film,creating scratches with your hands and creating sneaky light leaks while winding up your film.

I love seeing an image I completely forgot about and reliving that one moment, completely removed from it. This to me is the curse of the LCD screen. Seeing the photograph while standing infront of your subject can cause such inner turmoil. You dont have the space or time to be completely objective.

But this is just my opinion... and some of my reasons I love film.

Often I will take an analog photo and crop it of tweak colour with photoshop. I dont believe in the whole 'purist' thing and that you HAVE to be digital or analog. We are given these incredible tools to play with. Cameras, film, developing techniques, photoshop, scanners etc. and they all influence your image, and at the end of the day, its about what you are looking at as much as how it was created. Why not enjoy the full process?

That being said, These photos are all untouched.. coming straight from the scanner. Fuji colours n all. Just snippets of my life. As I see it.

The last day I have of this view 

Yarn bombing

Sentimantal photo, the first Rolling Stone im published.

Portrait by Lani

FujiFun

Another film...

Sometimes I wish I could just spit poetry out of these fingers and write a paragraph or two that either made you gasp, giggle or just nod your head in that "I know exactly what you mean" kind of way.  It would somehow tie all the photos together and give them a deeper whimsical meaning.

And then I realise that non of these photos are taken for anything other then fun. And also to the great embarrassment of my mother, I cant spell.