Photo Pulp | 74 Lime Lane

{snapshot} feeling a little ruffled around the edges

May 14, 2012 By Kellie 1 Comment

It’s Monday and starting off a little slowly this week after a busy and packed weekend filled with birthdays, sport, dinners out, Mother’s Day and then work. Phew.

So today, I’m feeling a little ruffled around the edges so thought I would share some suitably clothed pretties from the archives to share this morning.

Who doesn’t need a bit of pretty pink to start the week?

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
― Audrey Hepburn

I thought I would start sharing some links a few times a week, as there is lots of stuff I bookmark which doesn’t fit into my weekend posts, and a little Monday morning distraction is always fun.

Gorgeous garden owl sculptures
I would love this book from Mary Kate McDevitt
Famous folks taking photos
10 useful snapshots to keep on your phone
Sick of all the talking ~ try the wordless web

And how about a Monday morning playlist via 8 tracks:

How are you starting your week?

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{snapshot} putting it in perspective

May 7, 2012 By Kellie 3 Comments

I’m ashamed to admit I don’t have much to show and tell this week. It seems like I’ve taken a lot of photos, just not with my SLR.

I’ve been taking lots of film photos ~ double the value with my Diana at the moment ~ but they are still “in camera” and I think I will have to make it my goal to get them out this week and to the lab.

And with the shorter days and working, kids back and school and busy with winter sports, well I just haven’t been out and about as much.

Part of this week’s Creative Captures assignment was “perspective”. And as usual, I spent too long thinking about it and not enough time shooting it, which meant I went for an old favourite for my subject.

The assignment also had me looking through my flickr favourites and I’d forgotten how much inspiration there was in that little collection.

So I need to find “perspective”, too. I haven’t made the time to get out and about as much. It’s time to reform that habit and carry that camera around. Just snap, snap, snap. Refocus. Get back to basics.

I can’t lie to this face.

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{snapshot} vintage finds and serendipity

April 30, 2012 By Kellie Leave a Comment

Remember the other day I went on a vintage treasure hunt, mainly in search of cameras after getting a tip-off from my parents.

Well the tip off came to nought, although I did pick up some lovely set of three green tins, but we wandered around, finding, and leaving, lots of other treasures {I’m still thinking about a lovely old wooden school desk I spotted} when we passed a shop that was closed but in the window were some old cameras, covered in cobwebs. Disappointed I instead plotted how I could fit in a return trip.

So funny story. The cafe we were going to visit was also closed so it was time to turn back. We stopped around the corner from the main street to have a look at a lake and I wandered back along the street to snap the lovely old Kodak sign above that was on the side of an old building.

That’s when my luck started to change. There was now a man sitting outside the shop with the cameras and, from the odd angle I was standing at, the door appeared to be open.

So back in the car and I pulled up outside and I vowed not to leave without a camera. {I mean, I needed something to blog about!}

After poking around, we came back to the window. I asked for prices, I haggled, I got a deal for two. {I was also very proud of myself ~ I’m not usually a haggler}.

This one is badged Trixette but was also known as Nixette. It takes 120 film, a medium format film originally produced for the Brownie, and shoots by 6×6 images. Would be very cool to try out! You can still buy 120 film from the Lomography shop so I tempted to clean her up and give it a whirl!

This is a No.2 Autographic Folding Brownie ~ and I spotted some on Ebay ~ and was produced between 1915 and 1926. Suitably impressed by the age of this thing and to think I picked it up in a little second-hand shop. She needs a bit of a clean-up but will take pride of place among my collection.

I love how that old Kodak sign eventually led me to my finds.

Serendipity.

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{snapshot} on the street

April 23, 2012 By Kellie Leave a Comment

“I tramp a perpetual journey.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with street photography. I love a good example of street photography, I hate that I don’t have the courage to snap it myself.

On the weekend we ducked back down the local gardens for me to shoot the latest assignment for the Creative Captures course and as we walked back to the car I saw this man, and quickly fired a shot. {In all honesty, I went to quickly fire off a shot, but the camera was in the off position so had to flick it on and take a do-over. The first one would have been much better.}

It has a had a bit of a post-processing crop and was turned into black and white, but I’m quite taken with how it has turned out.

The foot mid-step, the lines leading in the direction of his path, his simple clothes and tote, the way he appears to be looking off into the distance.

For me, it has all those elements telling a story. Where is he going, what is he doing, where did he come from? Is he married? A widower?

What’s his story?

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{snapshot} chasing sunsets

April 16, 2012 By Kellie 6 Comments

Are you playing along with Fat Mum Slim’s daily photo challenge? Well, yesterday’s prompt was sunset. I checked the weather app to find out what time sunset would be and casually mentioned to the husband that I had to grab a shot of the sunset.

And he said: “you should really go somewhere else to get it”.

The thing is we live on a hill, facing north. And we love it. But it also means we lose the sun about half an hour or more before sunset. And I wouldn’t actually see the sunset. I was just going to snap the fading light in the other direction. But no, that wasn’t good enough so we bundled the kids into the car, I grabbed my gear and off we went to the other side of town to watch the sunset from the other big hill in the east.