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I got my Konstruktor from the Lomo Gallery Store in NYC at the launch party where I met up with several Lomographers including @jeabzz, @mikahsupageek, and @noe_artega and for the first time in person some of the NYC Lomo people. It was a nice party but they only had 10 Konstruktors on hand that night so I know I had to get it (since the Lomo stores in LA had closed before I left for my trip)! My son wanted to assemble it himself, successfully I might add and he's only 12! And then we took it around this little estate in Pennsylvania. The weather was grayish at that time so I knew that we had to expose each frame multiple times.
I felt like I knew her now, at least as well as one could. She was sensitive yet easy to be with, not the fickle, high maintenance girl I'd imagined. She always forgave my clumsiness. I understood that she had others, she gave her love so freely, so innocently, that I couldn't be jealous. I was happy to visit them and try and catch a glimpse of her. After all I knew, somewhere in the back of my mind, that she was as transient as life itself, and when she was gone, she would be gone forever.
I was leaving a faraway friend's and I spotted a dusty Leica on a shelf so I left a note, could I maybe borrow it? She was delighted someone was interested in it but said it didn't work and hadn't been properly used since her grandfather's time. Many months later she got it to me and I took it out. First film, rubbish. I wasn't sure if it was old though so I bought a brand new one for the second go, and its much better but still not great. Seems maybe there are light leaks?! Or maybe I'm just no good at this Leica business...prefer my Zorki... (shot in September 2015 and developed in Caffenol)
