A proof that time indeed flies fast, with wings that never stop.
It has been four years since i have joined this site, not very sure how many things have changed and how many haven't.
Sadly i can't really update very or take many pictures at the moment, just don't have the energy. Haven't even been able to finish off a necklace. Fingers crossed i'll feel more energetic soon, it is after all spring .

I have been having lots of problems with Zenit 11 that i have bought recently, i couldn't at first load the film properly, that was all my doing of course, but now that the film was loaded properly i happily shot that roll of film. But then when i began to rewind the film back, there was a snapping sound. I felt that something was wrong so i went to a dark room, and opened the back of the camera. The film was completely around the take-up spool and the cassette is empty.

Does anyone have an idea why this happened, is the film now destroyed?
And i did take some very nice pictures...

I haven't updated my journal in long months, however i have been active on the site, and kept up with creativity, even started to make necklaces!
Recently i have purchased a Zenit 11 slr camera, it haven't arrived yet but hopefully it will by the end of the week. The reason behind wanting to go to film and generally try something new was a rant about digital photography, so i felt like i needed to do something.

Here is my lil rant:
Before i go into this rant i do want to say that i am no professional photographer, only a hobby photographer, mostly because i don't have the funds to purchase the proper equipment especially a good camera, but most importantly i am an appreciator of photography, a big fan.

I have always been a flag bearer of digital photography, always said that it archived what dark rooms achieved before the creation of computers and photoshop, but after i watched Rankin's programme "Seven Photographs That Changed Fasion" where he tried to reinvent seven photographs that in his opinion have influenced fashion photography the most, i realized just how short his digital work fell of the originals. His attempts looked soul less, devoid of the great colour, lighting that was present in the originals, not only because of the skill of those photographers but because of their equipment and approach to the work. Not to mention he chose some annoying models, who really do nothing with their facial expressions.
Its also the approach that many photographers have these days "Oh i have spent days working on my photography digitally, that means its so fantastic." No, a fantastic picture is the one that needs close to no editing at all, because the light, the filters and everything else has already been perfected. As Bailey have said its cheating, and now i agree it is cheating. Bailey's photograph of his girlfriend comes to mind, the one Rankin tried to copy, and not only Rankin wasn't able to use the film camera, where his assistants did all of the work for him, the image, because of the model and equipment just flopped. Gone was the simple glamour and beauty replaces by something empty.

There are some talented digital photographers out there, but its just not the same. Yes, i still want a digital slr and all the gadgets that come with it, but i never stopped wanting a on slr and a dark room.
On a final note, this wasn't a criticism of Rankin, but mostly of the new genre, how it doesn't completely equal the film photography, and i really do like Rankin's editorial work.

So instead of uploading some new pictures or working on some new photo-manipulations i have been adjusting my journal CSS for ages, and now i no longer like the red theme, arh, maybe all i need to do is work on the background. (It is too red, don't you think?)

I've watched BBC's Dracula last night, i know this has nothing to do with art but..
I'm not sure why they had to make the obvious relationship between vampirism and syphilis that obvious. Yes, it was ironic, but just a bit too much. Mina was just badly cast and Marc Warren was a very interesting choice, it was the best old Dracula so far. The film was badly directed, some of the characters have been mistreated, but happily for me Harker died at the very beginning, Van Helsing was completly changed, and things jumped around too much. The landscape shots were very beautiful tho.

This question has been "imposing" itself on me for some time.
Shooting Butterflies by Marika Cobbold, is a wonderful book and touches on the heart of a photographer very much. In the book the main character Grace is faced with a sad situation, her lover is quickly dying from a horrible cancer, and he asks her as a photographer to document his passing into the next world, make it into a celebration of life, of his life and their love.
He mentions how he sees the way she looks at him, through those photographers eyes. How she is already thinking about the best lights to be used, how it would be best to pose him. After all that is what they have done before, with her disguising him, but always keeping him as the man she loved.

Maybe i am not describing this well enough, the emotion and the hardship. But for that you should read the book, its one of those books that make me want to become a writer even more. To be able to get all of that emotion into words or sentences.

Anyway, would you be able to do that? Being that photography is something you love most? Or so i assume .