Who doesn't love leftover photos? Am I right?  Not really leftover photos, but photos from a film roll that I failed to have processed for months.  These are from the Wanderland Music Festival my friend and I attended months ago, taken with my Superheadz Fat Lens and if my memory serves me right, an expired Lucky 200 (If I'm being honest, I can't even remember the exact date of the event. I will have to check my ticket again for that).  In the meantime, here are some of the photos I loved from that roll.

Wanderland 2013

Lying on the grass waiting for something to happen

We brought a ton of stuff, like a bunch of paranoid hippies

Wow, it's been months since our last post here. I think my last post was a half-hearted attempt at reviving my waning interest in cameras.  That was at a pretty low point in my life, and cameras were the least of my concerns, but let's not talk about that here. :P       

    

Okay, so where was I?  Yes. Here we go.  I'm back in the game, to borrow an outdated phrase. Last weekend, my friend, Arianne, and I went to this music festival called Wanderland.  I'm not into the scene, whatever that means, as I'm pretty much an outsider anywhere I go (due to the fact that I make even the coolest stuff uncool), but it was great, despite the proliferation of flower hairbands and questionable outfit choices.  It was a sunny, sunny day, so I whipped out my cameras for some fun.  I used my Instax Mini and my Superheadz Fat Lens.  This post is dedicated to the Instax Mini shots. I have yet to develop the Superheadz shots. I'm busy, you know. :P

More photos below!

I have a few camera crushes, but none of them are the usual Superheadz or Lomo cams.  Here are two of them so far.

the Bell and Howell BF35

the Olympus Trip 35

Till then, I shall have to keep on dreaming, and find a way to use my new Bee camera, which I believe I haven't shared yet.

in front of Chungking Mansions

My friend, Arianne, and I went to Hong Kong.  I took a few crappy photos.  And in between those, there were a few cute ones.

along Nathan Road, aboard a double-decker bus

More photos below

A few months ago (last year, actually), I joined a one-day activity for lomographers in UP Diliman.  Featuring Parkour Manila, here it is, finally.  Thanks to Shutter Revolution.  This was fun.

the Bangui Windmills, Ilocos Norte

My family and I recently took a roadtrip up north to Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte. The route was from our house in Bataan, then Tarlac, Pangasinan, La Union, and finally Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte. Whew. For the trip I brought my two cameras, the Fat Lens and the Golden Half, and I used Lucky 200 for both. The results below show just how much I still have to learn about these two cameras. The Golden Half photos turned out moodier than I thought they would, simply because we arrived at Vigan before the sun was up in full blast. The Fat Lens photos turned out better than I expected, though. Lots of bright blue skies, vignettes, and wide angle goodness.

The Golden Half photos were all taken in Vigan, while the Fat Lens photos were all taken all around Ilocos Norte.

Why hello there. 

I know it has been at least 6 months since my last post, but I had a really good reason.  The last few months have been life-changing as we welcome a new member of our family.  Amidst our life rollercoaster, I knew I had to make it up to this blog somehow; so what better way than documenting our journey with one of my toy cameras.


So, without further ado, our past 38 weeks in summary via Polaroid:

That's it for now, I have to go cuddle with my babe.  You understand, right?


- V.

I haven't had time to edit the videos of my recent trips, but here are my favorite clips: one is of me and my friends having fun with the Inception totem (only my fingers and my voice are in the video, though), and the other is of my nephew, Zacky, after feeding the goats at Zoobic Safari.

Untitled from kannika p. on Vimeo.

Meee! from kannika p. on Vimeo.

Here are a few Instax holiday photos featuring my family, friends, officemates, and a donkey. Hoping this year will be full of awesome toy camera photos, less fail moments with cameras, and great moments worth capturing through the plastic lens.

Hey, V., can't wait to meet your beautiful baby, even just in photos! <3

Company Christmas party photos

prod team girls :)

big head

Christmas with the family

parental units

with baby sister who's bigger than me

Reema's christening, December 31, 2011

with my friends Mari, Chloe, Eloisa, Sanika, and Mari's baby girl, Reema

More photos below!

The photo processor somehow messed up with my Golden Half shots and scanned the half frames separately. Ah well. Let's just pretend this is a roll from my Fat Lens.  Majority of the photos were taken in Naga City on a particularly unpretty day, but it was fun times indeed with my friends, Arianne and Eloisa, so despite the bad weather, everything was fun.

Arianne

Eloisa

 More photos below!

Here are some photos from my first test roll with the Golden Half Telepathy.  The Superheadz miracle happened again, so I am now a firm believer.  Out of the 36 possible shots, 33 came out.  I'm not going to post all, though, as most of them are either overexposed or underexposed.  I think I got used to the Fat Lens that doesn't need any adjustment in the settings, so I wasn't able to manipulate the simple settings for this baby.  Lesson learned, yeah?

I just love a clear blue sky

I'm pretty obsessed with my new shoes

What? No food in pool? Guess I better find my food elsewhere. ;)

The gratuitous lomo self-portrait taken in front of the car side mirror

A break from all the greenery - a view from our office window

Till the next test roll :)

k.

How amazing is the Lomokino?  I'm usually a Superheadz fan, and I love my Digital Zumi 2++ wholeheartedly and then some, but this movie camera is just too freakin' awesome not to share.  See video below and swoon.


Teaser Trailer from Lomography on Vimeo.

Basically, the Lomokino is Lomography's newest baby, a movie camera that lets you shoot a mini movie composed of 144 frames on any 35mm film.  What I love about this is that it looks quite simple to operate.  Let's just hope it's a little sturdier than most Lomography products. :P

What I'm just wondering is, how the hell do you unload, process, and watch the film itself?  I have yet to read the whole thing, but this is really exciting. Not sure if I'd be willing to shell out for it, though.  My heart belongs to the Zumi.

the Golden Half Telepathy shots by Mac Centeno

Here's my new toy acquisition, a Golden Half!  I've been dreaming of getting one for months now, so when I saw this one, a second-hand but almost new Telepathy Golden Half with a Holga mini flash, I just had to succumb.  First of  all, it was already heavily discounted for something that's been used only once, and second, I just really need a new toy camera to cheer me up. :)

I still need to finish the first test roll. And I also still need to figure out how to use the external flash. ALSO, if the big trip pushes through (no words on this yet; I don't want to jinx it) I will be putting this camera and the Fat Lens to good use. I'm really excited to beat my record for the number of cameras I bring with me on a trip (on my trip to Bangkok, I brought a. Instax b. Zumi c. Disderi Robot Cam and d. a Nikon D40, and yes, I used all of them :P).  This time, I have 3 additional cameras, so the dilemma is whether to bring all 7, or just choose. I'm not a rational travel packer (or whatever), so I might actually end up bringing all of them just to be sure no one (yes, I'm using anthropomorphism on them ; I mean, I NAME them) feels left out. Heh.

k.

Well, here's my third roll using the Superheadz Fat Lens. I've just been too busy with work, haven't been out much lately.  I will also include one shot from the LomoMatrix shindig, which is still in the works in the hands of the cool people at Shutter Revolution.

Thanks to Sephy for sending my photos to me.

this was one of the LomoMatrix shots I did

Hoping to get out more and take more photos of interesting things. LOL #nolifeatall

K.

Here are a few Instax photos we took from our latest trip to Niagara Falls, Ontario:

Till next adventure,  V.