sweet disposition

fisheye lens

When I was in London this past June with Elena we went to the Tate Modern and while we were in the gift shop she found this little film fish eye camera. It was about £50 which seemed fair enough so naturally we each had to buy ourselves one. Well, 4 months later and I've finally finished the film and got it developed. The results were a little disappointing. Most of the photos that were taken in Europe didn't work out. They were either completely blown out or just not centered. I'm a little bummed that they didn't work out because I know we had taken some photos that could have been really cool. I also looked over the actual negatives and noticed that some of the photos did in fact turn out but they were just printed wrong! Note to self: never get photos developed at Loblaws again just because it's a cheaper alternative. Anyways, I'm going to keep trying and experimenting in hopes of figuring out this little plastic camera. Here are some of the pictures that did work out...somewhat...

(London Hostel, Ruby Blues in London, Amsterdam Streets, night out at the Social, chili peppers)

repitition

This is the first project I had to do for my drawing class this year and it's probably the first assignment in all of university (not including photography projects) that I was actually excited to start. We had to create a self portrait based off of a photo but we had to use a stamp of our choice (I just used the side of an eraser) and an ink pad in order to actually make the picture instead of using a pencil to simply draw it. Needless to say it was incredibly time consuming since it had to be done on 22 x 30 inch paper and the final product took me about 5 hours, but in some strange way it was oddly...enjoyable? These were just some pictures I took during the process of it and after the first 4 hours, before it was actually completed. I took the pictures with my phone so excuse to crappy quality.