My first best photo

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It was my firs step into 120 film, but really, it was my first step into photography. I had received my first camera on my birthday in 2010. it was a beautiful sea foam green diana+. i had been dying for a diana camera for a very long time. ever since i walked into urban outfitters and saw it on the shelf. it looked beautiful. of course i was looking at the original colors of black and blue, and at first, i hated the sea foam green color scheme, but it quickly grew on me, as it was unique from the others.

at that time i didnt know anything about film, i only thought there was 35mm film. boy was i wrong. when i discovered that it only took 120, and that i couldnt buy 120mm just anywhere. I set on my journey of scouring the internet form some 120 film, while researching about my camera and what the best conditions were for a lomograph.

finally my 120 film came in the mail, a 5 pack box of fujifilm fujicolor pro color negative 400 iso .
i then realized that you only can get a maximum of 16 shots on this film, so i planned my shots carefully. walking back and forth from class everyday, i walked by the same piece sculpture in the garden. it was a wooden post sticking 6 feet out of the grown with pegs, with the most beautiful blue bottles on them. the sun was how and behind me, not many clouds, perfect conditions..

i lined up the shot, jumping in between bushes and awkwardly standing up between them, checking my camera settings, aaaaaaaaaaaand……KLICK-KLACK! GOT IT!

i ran through the rest of the film, completely forgetting about the shot after so much adventure.
a week went buy when i finally found a lab that could process the film. i drove half an hour to get there and waited until the prints were done. i buzzed through them, most of them were pretty crappy shots, except this one…the blues were beautiful, the vignetting was perfect, .this is what made it official, my life in photography would never be the same.

i present to you…the crazy bottles of blue

Credits: jwhoa19

Thanks for reading :)

written by jwhoa19 on 2011-03-25

5 Comments

  1. lmr
    lmr ·

    those bottles really are such a beautiful blue color

  2. jwhoa19
    jwhoa19 ·

    Yes they are! By the time I graduated, most of then had either been broken or stolen. I wanted to try and grab one myself but there was only a few left and I wanted it to keep as many as it could.

  3. lighttomysoul
    lighttomysoul ·

    shame people have to destroy pretty things.

  4. xxxanderrr
    xxxanderrr ·

    What I think is awesome about the picture is the focusing and the blurry edges basically. That just screams "plastic camera" to me and I think it's awesome.
    And since you were talking about not knowing about 120mm film existing.. back when I ordered my first cam, a Holga, I ordered a bunch of Ilford film with it. Little did I know that Ilford is a b&w film manufacturer =D that sure bit me in the ass when I got the prints and negatives =D
    sometimes it really is nice to read up on that kinda stuff :))

  5. beths
    beths ·

    Great blog entry :)