You may have noticed a bunch of pictures popping up on here, and maybe you’re wondering what exactly is going on.
Well, my husband has recently been trying his hand at film photography, and that inspired me to take a whack at it. I have two film “toy cameras”—a 120 Holga and a Blackbird, fly.
Here’s a picture of me being all photographer-y in Marfa, Texas.
Digital camera have always frustrated the living bejeezus out of me. So many of the settings are hidden away in weird menus I don’t know how to access and there’s just something flat about digital photography compared to film photography (I’m also one of those weirdos who swears records sound better than CDs). On film cameras, all the knobs and buttons and dials you need to get your settings in order are right there on the camera. Granted, toy camera are unreliable in their own special ways (light leaks and inaccurate viewfinders, anyone?), but I don’t know . . . there’s just something about film I prefer over digital. So I’ll be posting my film photos here every once in a while. You can also find me on flickr here.
Writing-wise, I’m still working on expanding my 3-Day Novel. I’m getting close . . . oh-so-close . . . to being done with the completed, expanded first draft.
Also, I finished a short story today! Wonders never cease!
And some of my friends have had stories published! Check them out!
Erin’s story “Not Your Kind of Heathen” is in ResAliens #5.
Jens’s story “The Vicksburg Dead” is in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. Yay for pro sales!
And Alex’s story “The Organization is in A Thousand Faces.
Yay us!
I have a few things out on submission right now, and I’ve collected a few rejection slips, too. Gotta start somewhere. Gotta keep writing.
Don’t forget to check out my writing prompt project, Writing Prompts That Don’t Suck.
And the vegan blog I write for VegFortWorth.
She who keeps writing, WINS!!
hey! i like the photos you’ve been taking! do you just scan them onto you’re computer? i’ve been meaning to do that with some of my pictures. i wasn’t sure how they would come out- but yours look great!
Hey!
For most of these, I just had the photo lab (Walgreen’s/Barron’s) scan the negatives for me and put them on a CD. For the black and white ones I took in Oak Cliff, I just scanned the actual photo. Kevin has a negative scanner, and sometimes he scans his own negatives–it’s just a lot of work to do it yourself, so we usually just have Walgreen’s or Barron’s do it for us.