Magnification device.

Look what I bought last weekend!

This is a magnification device for the development of my analogue pictures! Now I don’t have to go to Breukelen to develop my pictures, I can do it myself! Now I can develop my pictures in my room. I’ll have to wait until it’s dark outside, then I put on the red light and BAM! I got my own darkroom! I will hang the developed pictures in my room. When I wake up, I will see a decoration of fresh developed pictures in my room! wouldn’t that be nice?! I’m so excited to try it out! My grandpa is going to help me the first time, don’t know how it works yet…
SO HAPPY!

I’m sorry I cant post anything longer than this. I ‘m still very busy working on my school. That’s the most important thing right now….


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Analogue picture time!

Today I got the pictures back from development! These pictures where the first ones from my Olympus OM-10. I;’m so happy with the outcome!

My Olympus!

I have had a school assignment for my art class. I made a series of pictures that all had to have some kind of emotion in them. THANKS Ruben, for letting me put water in your eyes and make you cry! haha!

I actually asked Ruben to shout as loud as possible in the picture above!

The other pictures are just some random pictures I took to get the 25 pictures I needed before I could take out the roll. For the analogue people out there: I used a Lomography ladygrey 35mm 100ISO roll, and had my diaphragm on 5.6!

I took one of those random pictures for you guys to see!

Have a nice week! I’ll be learning the whole time :(

Oh ok, I will sleep and eat too, don’t worry….

 

 

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Thrift shop Tuesday.

So I finally had a chance to go to the thrift shop today. This time in one I’ve never been before. I was in “Weesp” today with my friend Koen. Koen bought me an awesome analogue camera, which I’m definitely going to use sometime. This camera is a 135 mm camera from 1959.  So here it is!


And of course, I couldn’t resist the temptation to buy myself another one. This one was only 3,50 euros! It’s SO little and cute! This one is a 127mm camera from 1953. If you know how to get 127mm film, PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT!

So that was a real quick update for today.
BYE

My summer in analogue pictures

I was thinking about making my blog post about my vacation and show some pictures of my trip to Turkey.  But since I got all my analogue pictures at once on my mail I decided to make one big story covering my whole summer. All the pictures on this blog post (except for the first two) where made with my analogue camera’s. Two Olympus trip 35’s and one Kodak ektralite 600.

The Kodak:

The Olympus:
So what did I actually do this summer? Lets start at the beginning of it. The last few weeks of school. The weather as getting warmer and nicer. the vacation was so close nobody could concentrate on learning and going to school. For me, the first real summer day was when we made a trip to “De Strook”. The teachers had all decided we could get free from school and all hang out together and have some fun. We had a nice barbecue and went swimming together.


So for me this was my first summer day. It was also the first day of warm weather (about 25 degrees centigrade). 
Then the actual vacation begun and it started good. We – my mother brother and boyfriend and I- had a few trips to the beach in “Zandvoort”. I had a really good time there. We normally don’t make any trips to the beach, and I hadn’t seen de beach for over a few years then. This summer we made quite some more beach trips to Zandvoort.   We had a lot of fun!

The last highlight of my summer was my vacation to Turkey. I had never been to Turkey before. I went together with my boyfriend. Who came with the fantastic idea to go somewhere for a week. We had found this amazing hotel in the old center of Antalya. If you ever plan on going to Antalya. The Alp Pasa Botique Hotel is really beautiful and affordable too!














So that was, in a short story, what my summer was like.

I hope You have had A great summer too! Lets hope the winter is going to be as much fun as the summer!

Moving to NYC in 1951

Today, I thought it would be nice to do some DIY-ing! Which I did! I had brought an old film from the thrift shop with me. I get them for free because you can’t know if the film has been out of its casing. Nobody wants to buy film that could be damaged. I wanted to make a cover for my photo album out of the damaged film by cutting them in strips and glue them on the cover of the album.

I had to go to my grandma to get some things I needed to make the cover. I came to her home, finding her almost hidden in her closet. She was looking at her old postcards from the 1950’s. She had actually kept a lot of them in a box in her closet. We sat there for a while, going true all those cards. Reading some of them. Then she gave me a few of them! Which is AWESOME! I got a bunch of cards from – I think – her aunt.

For what I could get out of the cards was that a friend of my grandmas’ aunt had moved from Holland to NYC in 1951. She writes how she loves it there. How all her bags where opened at the airport, and how she would love to hear from her (the aunt) soon. Gosh, sometimes I think by myself: “ wouldn’t it be nice to have lived as a young person growing up in the 50’s?” In the 1950’s the Dutch economy grew very fast. The Dutch people where getting richer and richer. Which made them able to move to NYC(!!!).

The imprint says APR. 25 1951

I’ve got a few postcards from in the war. From around the 40’s. I wasn’t able to figure out what the cards say because of the handwriting. But they look pretty awesome don’t they?

OK. Back to my cover. This is what I did with my album!

Enjoy the rest of the week!

Thrift shop Saturday

This morning I was kinda bored. I was lying in bed until 11. Sometimes I have those days when I wake up in the morning and just don't know what to do. Eventually, I got myself out of bed and took a shower. Than I realized it was SATURDAY! Which means the thrift shop is open!

The thrift shop is my holy place! I buy junk there and transform it into things I can actually use. I've never came back from a thrift shop without buying something. Especially analogue camera's. I love those!

So I had decided to go to Breukelen and visit the thrift shop there. But I didn't feel like going alone, so I Facebooked my friend Pien, she came with me together her brother Sam. Pien and Sam wanted to buy an old analogue camera so I helped them find a good one in the thrift shop. They both got an analogue 35mm camera.

There where no other fancy old looking vintage rusty camera's for me to buy but I found something else. I found a rasp...YES I bought a rasp, because they're cool. But now it's not a rasp anymore.
This is what I bought:

So here is what I did with it:

If you want to do this yourself, notice you have to use paint that holds on to metal. I used spray paint for bikes.

Analogue #1 Thanks mom!

YAY! I just got home from school and my mom was waiting for me in the kitchen. She had made a coffee for me and had this look in her eyes. That look mothers have when they have something for you they know you're going to like.
My mother gave me a leather bag, which was quite heavy and asked me to open it, and so I did.

At first a dusty smell came out of the bag and then I saw what was in it. My mom just got me a new (old) camera! It is a praktika TL1000. It is a 35 mm camera.

I have been collecting old cameras for a few months now and I have a total of 15 cameras. I love the grain and color the pictures of an analogue camera have.

It all began with my olympus trip 35. I had bought it in the local thrift shop for 3 euro's and just wanted to try it so I bought a 35 mm film for it. When I developed the pictures I was sold! The Thing I like the most is that it will always be a surprise whether your pictures look good. And, don't forget the lightleaks.Some of my 110 mm cameras get those lightleaks, but I have one on my olympus trip film too. ( I think something went wrong during developing).



Olly.



picture taken with my olympus trip. (lightleak on the left)



My cat.



SO THANKS MOM! :)