Hello everyone, although the last update here was a little over three weeks ago it’s actually been closer to six weeks since I did a diary entry on what I have been getting up to, so it felt like it’s a little overdue.
La Spezia Seafront - YOU could be the proud owner of a postcard of this image.
An alleyway in Mykonos - Shot on Kodak Ektar 100 with my Yashica D
First up an update on the postcard giveaway I was running from my Instagram, in short I’ve amended and extended the idea for it. Instead of giving away some postcards of my image taken on the seafront in La Spezia to a few select followers once I hit an arbitrary follower number, I’ve been using a random number generator to just pick someone off the follower list every so often and dropping them a message saying I can send them a postcard if they’d like one. A few people haven’t replied, probably because yes it does sound a little weird a stranger offering you something free, but quite a few people have been very happy and are now the owners of a postcard of my work. I’m going to keep doing this until they are all gone, which may take forever, so if you follow me on Instagram and you get a message from me it might be for one of these. Also if you don’t well why not? I update it way more regularly than here.
Next up is some results, photography related results. I’ve finally got around to getting developed and scanning in ALL of the images I shot in Slovenia and Greece at the end of September. for the record that was 6 rolls of 35mm Fuji C200 and Cinestill 800T shot with my Olympus OM-1 and 8 rolls of Kodak Ektar 100 in 120 shot with my Yashica D, so yeah that was a hell of a lot of photographs to go through.
Sunset over the Caldera in Santorini - Again shot on Kodak Ektar 100 with the Yashica D
I’ve been sharing them over on that Instagram already (like I said I update it way more) so you may have seen some already but there are tons more to show. One or two I am really quite proud of and am probably going to get made into much larger prints for the wall in my house, or as Christmas presents for people as I can think of at least one person who would probably like that under their tree. I’ve put a few of the nicer (in my opinion) images here so let me know what you think and as always if you like an image and would like a print then just drop me a message.
Some Cinestill on a surprisingly expensive but plush Inter branded scarf…….? How artistic of me.
Time to talk about some recent travel/adventure news., actually it was more of a weekend trip, to yes you guessed it , Italy. Me and a couple of friends went to Milano for the weekend to watch Inter play Verona, I myself have been to the San Siro before (last year to watch AC Milan play Sampdoria) but neither of my friends had and with the rumours of it being knocked down to make way for a new stadium in the near future they wanted to check it off their list of famous stadiums to have been to. Other than watching football (which was incredible since Inter are actually good this year) we did the standard sightseeing around the city and took a day trip to Lake Como as well. Obviously as this was literally less than 2 weeks ago and I procrastinate massively I am yet to send off the couple of rolls of film I shot to the lab and get back results BUT I specifically shot Cinestill so I’m looking forward to how they come out, especially when I was shooting at night on the streets and in a few bars. Stay tuned for those.
Ljubjana shot on Cinestill 800T with my Olympus Om-1.
I got myself a mention on the Sunny 16 Podcast this week, granted it was actually on Backing Paper the follow up email reading version of the show AND granted it was a footnote towards the end AND granted it was more about other people’s responses to something I posted on Twitter but still…… VINDICATION!!!! Anyway what I asked was “does anybody out there in the film photography community have any other creative outlets other than photography?” and the response was pretty cool and a little overwhelming. It turns out that, yes of course they do and also they’re incredibly varied from similar things such as sketching and painting to out there things like making and selling dinosaur themed hoodies. Was really cool seeing just how creative people out there can be, and for the record the thing I’ve been doing recently other than photography is writing, short stories and jotting down a few ideas, nothing great but just something I’ve liked doing.
Finally as Christmas is surprisingly not that far away, like just over four weeks or something i think, I thought I’d mention that I am again taking part in the Emulsive Secret Santa (which if you don’t know about it is a giveaway organised by Em of Emulsive to connect analogue photographers across the world and swap gifts) .This is my third year participating, obviously I can’t say who I’ve been matched with but it does mean that I get to send a package to another country again which is always cool when you think about your photography going to someone from another culture, as well as obviously some cool film photography related gifts. Just for context last year my package went to Hong Kong and the package I received came from the U.S. I have also decided to participate this year in Analog Talk’s Christmas print exchange, same kind of thing but you send a 6x4 print of an image of yours to a random matched person somewhere in the world and you receive the same. At time of writing the Emulsive one has closed for entry but I think you can still sign up to the Analog Talk one.
Anyway thanks for reading and as always, Keep Shooting Film Everyone.
The 6 Million P Man