I ♥ pictures. I have from my very first memory. My first camera was a hot pink 110 camera that was about the size of my first cell phone back in the day. I took it to every school outing and every single last day of school up until I was in high school taking awful pictures the entire time. Next my grandparents bought me one of the various kitschy Polaroid cameras that printed immediately gratifying pictures that were about 1/2 the size of a regular Polaroid, which was, if we’re being honest, already quite small. Finally, in high school my dad decided to step up the plate and buy me a ‘real’ camera, an SLR, that would be my first. He went to the camera store, bless his heart, and the man sold him a Yashika, which wouldn’t have been all that bad if the mirror hadn’t broken about 6 months in and the cost to send the thing back to Japan to get it fixed was barely worth it, so, I took over my granddad’s Pentax ME Super.
I fell in Love with the Pentax. I haven’t bought another brand of camera since. Eventually my ME Super decided to die as well though, and it would have been well worth it to fix, I decided I needed some automatic settings on my camera with so many kids around nowadays and all. It became quite hard to get a picture in a millisecond, so I opted to be a lazy bum. I then asked for my Pentax ZX-30 which served me well throughout my college years. Every picture I took was on that camera and I took some pretty good ones. It lasted through parties and breakups, solar eclipses and jello showers. It was quite handy. Senior year I only loaded it with black and white. I shot my first wedding with it. Then, I went Polaroid.
600 film this time, just the good stuff. The year after my senior year I ONLY shot Polaroids. I was obsessed. I had this super huge piece of white foam core I’d gotten from work and put velcro on the backs of all my pictures and on the core so I could rearrange them whenever I wanted. I ♥ my Polaroid wall. But, that got to be expensive. After I met my husband he bought me my first digital, the Fujifilm FinePix and that did well for a couple of years. Then, again with the children, the point and shoot digital just wouldn’t cut it, so I went for the big shebang, the DSLR and bought my Pentax K10D.
I’ve had it for a little over a year I guess and of course, now I’m going back to film again with my Holga. Will the circle ever really stop?
I ♥ owning old cameras, they are beautiful. I ♥ old photographs. I ♥ my photographs. I ♥ memories and making them.
What I would also ♥ is for you to comment, critique, leave any sort of feedback to help me grow as an artist. All is welcome, as long as it’s constructive;)
