Vaseline is good for you

The miracles of kitchen wrap and vaseline (and something else, you won't want to know).

Had spent the whole of the week lusting after the Holga 120 Colour Flash camera with glass lens, checking Ebay for deals a-plenty day after day. Yes, deals are a-plenty and it is extremely tempting but developing 120mm film can get very expensive, I heard... so once again, i have delayed gratification and have rescued my credit card from being molested yet again. I am growing stronger by the day! The Brain has triumphed over the little devils tucking at my purse-strings (!).



Maki and Chu dropped by for lunch today and I was amazed by Chu's Leica camera, one of those fully manual, antique ones with levers and knobs galore. Chu will teach me how to make my own pinhole camera next week, and I am muchas looking forward to it!

I got even more excited about the pinhole camera after seeing a camera obscura featured in "The Girl with a Pearl Earring". I love its simplicity, and the uncertainty of how the image would turn out. Guess its good for character building since I badly need to learn patience, NOW.

I love the dreamy effect that medium format cameras produce, and Chu offered a few tips on how to do it the poor man's way: vaseline and kitchen wrap.

Being an impatient person, I cycled straight to Kamogawa and Kitayama (fave parts of Kyoto) armed with my point-and-shoot digital camera and my Lomo Fisheye, kitchen wrap, vaseline, some tape. I want to look at Kamogawa as if I just woke up from my nap on the river shore.






Stop and smell the flowers!


My beloved bike, my partner in crime. Never talks back at me, though... what a darling!


Before sunset






Demachiyanagi station


Takanogawa


Sunset in Shirakawa, this is probably what you will see if you are walking around sedated

The Fisheye pics will have to wait. Will try not to kill myself.