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Ryan — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:30:00 +0000

Things I learned at the fair

Ryan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:22:24 +0000

10 things I learned at the Butler County Fair
1. Calves are bad. Very bad. It’s not their idea of fun to be walked around in a circle by a poor 4-H child.
2. Steers are HUGE. And when they misbehave while being held by a tiny 100 pound teenager, the situation feels a little out of control.
3. Fairs still have freaky sideshow attractions. How did I not know this?
4. Not every dog is meant to be a Dock Dog. One hint might be if your dog doesn’t want to jump off the dock.
5. The midway workers yell at you to try to get you to play their games.
6. I still don’t like ferris wheels. They are freaky.
7. I must be a city girl because I have never seen sheep covered head to toe with shiny leotard material.
8. We walked by a calf being born. I looked around…did no one care? I was a little disturbed that the birth wasn’t being monitored. This is all news to me.
9. I didn’t have anyone to explain to me what the purpose of the little scratcher thing was during the 4-H showing of cattle.
10. I want to go to a large state fair now. This whole thing was fun!

Not quite digital

Ryan — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:30:52 +0000

I posted last week about my little film experiment. This week I’ll tell you all about my Polaroid binge.

My sister is mainly my inspiration for getting into Polaroid shooting. She has been completely into Polaroids for about the last eight years. She got an i-Zone when she was younger and hasn’t stopped shooting with instant film since. She dragged her massive Polaroid One Step everywhere with her over the years, enduring people’s weird looks and jokes. That is, until they saw the photo develop and then resorted to begging her to give them the photo. No giveaways to people to make jokes!

Since then she has added a few more Polaroid cameras to her collection and turned out some pretty awesome photos. We were both pretty into the Fuji Instax Mini 7S this past Christmas. This post is getting wordy, so I will wrap it up. One thing led to another and I turned to thrift store scavenging for cameras. The stars must have been aligned because I found a working Polaroid OneStep Closeup camera. It even had the flash override feature. Yay! It takes 600 film which I am lucky enough to be able to get from the Impossible Project. What follows is the end result of a two-day photo-taking binge I went on, exploring the camera and the film. The last photo is the sister/source of instant film inspiration!

You can check out the entirety of my Polaroid bingeing here.

48 degrees and it’s time for a tank top!

Ryan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:35:07 +0000

It’s a little crazy to think that once it hits 48 degrees, it feels positively summery outside. Almost warm enough for a tank top, or, maybe just warm enough to not be bundled up like the marshmallow man. Whatever the case, it was definitely warm enough for me to be inspired to take a walk and bring along my digital camera, my Holga and my new Fuji instant film camera. Plus my husband was bringing along the video camera. We had a camera in every coat pocket available. Note: He had another pocket, but he decided we were venturing so far away from the house that he need to pack snacks in it.

It must have been a combination of a nice day, sweating in my winter coat and walking up and down really steep hills, but the walk was refreshing and inspiring, and I came back and wrote down all of the places I want to go and shoot. So now when I am struggling with something for inspiration I have a whole list of places to go!

Click the photos below to see larger versions.

Check out the rest of the Fuji photos here. And just for fun, since you can’t see any of the Holga photos I took today (oh the mystery of film), check out my Holga gallery here.

So glad to be back!

Ryan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:52:45 +0000

Wow. I was having so many blog problems for the last two weeks. I never thought I would feel so bummed out about my blog going down. The good news is it’s back! The bad news is I am behind on some posting. So look for some new updates in the next few days.

Hmmm. What else? I put an order in to Dream Album today that I am really excited about, I will be on the floor taking photos at the Pitt meet on Saturday, and I have been having a ton of fun playing with my new Fuji Instax Mini 7S camera. Check it out. Some more awesome instant photos here. Plus, for my birthday I was so generously given two old cameras…an Imperial Satellite 127 and a Spartus. I have my fingers crossed that I can get one of them to work!

I am looking forward to rocking out some good stuff with my ::ahem:: three day weekend…yahoo!