Lomography

It's a Rollei 35 vs Lomo LC-A showdown for our Doubles With You collaborators Champi and sushi_9009! Check out their stunning gallery and be inspired to do some creative collab with a friend, too!

As a dirt jumper, my second home is my local trail... Ever since some stupid people had us close down our former trail (the Jurassico, maybe you read my location on it quite a while ago...), I had to move to another second home!!

Here are some doubles I recently did with sushi_9009... Well recently is a big word cause I began shooting them on this summer.

You like animals, the sea, fishes... This place is for you! The aquarium of La Rochelle, one of europe's biggest aquariums, was inaugurated in 2001 and contains 3 000 000 liters of sea water!

L'Armano is a big old villa from the 17th century, something like 200 meters away from my apartment in Grugliasco... It's a huge farm, including a 2 storey house and a chapel, surrounded by a big garden.

The ex Fiat/Teksid steel plate production plants, situated in the northern part of Turin, were definitely closed in 1992 and then partially destroyed. Still standing though are the "red giants", the huge steel columns which were once the structure of the factory.

One of the things I prefer to do with my cameras is to play with their formats... That's maybe why my favorite is the Horizon!

You like animals, the sea, fishes... This place is for you! The aquarium of La Rochelle, one of Europe's biggest aquariums, was inaugurated in 2001 and contains 3 000 000 liters of sea water!

A few weeks ago I went to see a competition of short track ice skating. Short track is a kind of speed skating which is ran on a standard ice rink (hockey rink size) instead of a bigger rink as used in long track speed skating...

Some time ago, I found an auction on Ebay which probably looked like a bunch of crap for any non lomographer guy... But not for me! This way I got 20 rolls of Kodak Ektar 100 (expired 1996), and 20 rolls of Kodak Ektachrome 160T, expired from... 1989!!!

At the beginning of October, I gathered with my parents and my brother and sister to celebrate my parents' 50 years... On the Saturday we went up the Mont Ventoux, a 1912 meters high summit in the South East of France, to play a bit with the kite and take a lesson of... Paragliding!

Out of excitement upon taking your self-portrait, it seems like you got yourself entangled helplessly with that 10-meter cable release you just bought that it's impossible for you to get out of it now. Spare yourself from this embarrassment and let your toes do the job for you the next time around. How so? read on...

The Rollei 35 is a compact, all metal and all manual 35mm camera. With it's retractable 40mm Tessar lens, it will be your perfect photographic companion, fitting one of your pockets anywhere you will go!

This is one of the exhibitions held this year in Turin as "World Design Capital". In the wonderful building of Torino Esposizioni, it features the "cars of tomorrow", almost 60 cars from 1950 to nowadays, represent what has been the car of the future in the last half century...

A little while ago, I went to shoot in an abandoned textile factory (see in my other locations)... As it was great fun and gave me really cool pics, I've been looking for other similar places to go with my cameras!

I think Agfa Portrait is the most "natural rendering" film I used so far with my Holga... But I love to get strange colors with holga, so here is my special tip with this film!

I can't remember how many times I passed in front of this abandoned factory with my car, insulting myself for not having a camera with me to take a few shots of this awesome piece of architecture... Till the day I said come on, I have to go there and shoot! So I took my bag with a few cameras and drove to the factory!

A few months ago I bought a pack of expired Provia in the shop... And I've got to say it was really worth it! I've tried it both in normal and cross processed using my 6x8 customised Holga.

I'm more a mountain boy than a seaside guy, I mean I like chilling on the beach, but I get bored after a few hours (not to say minutes)... But this seaside is different... First of all, apart for the artificial people-filled sand beaches near the town center, you will hardly find some sand around Marseilles but only limestone carved and sometimes even polished by the sea and the wind. And that's what makes it great to my eyes, the wildness of this rocky landscape diving directly into the green-blue sea, of the mistral wind which is quite always blowing in this place, and of the wave breaking on the rocks.

You're gonna tell me: well, what a strange location! My window (but it could be yours too!) is quite far from offering to your eyes a cool dreamy landscape... Some ugly buildings and streets, and even a huge block of police barracks... Not so lovely eh!