IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME
Hi everyone! I'm sorry that I've been a terrible friend. It's been a while since my last entry but I thought it would be a good idea to show you some of the photographs I took last semester for my photography class. Random, I know.
I was looking through my folder and saw them, I completely forgot I had them in there and so I scanned some of the ones that I missed. When I developed them I remember I didn't like them very much... I took them in a rush since it was supposed to be my final project and I picked something that didn't have anything to do with things I was interested in, I just picked what I thought would be quickest and easiest for me to do. Turns out I had a terrible time figuring out what I wanted to shoot that everything ended up being almost snapshots. But after some months, I look at them and I like them. I kind of like that I didn't shoot a lot of portraits because that took me out of my comfort zone. I might try and do this again but now with some color film.
Anyways, these photos were taken at my city's downtown. It's a very busy part of town; it's always full of people because there are a lot of stores there and everything is really cheap. I usually don't like to wander alone because people can get invasive sometimes and I get really paranoid, so my boyfriend went with me to take these photos.
In this street there is a lot of public transportation loading and unloading people.
A shoe store with specials. $99.90 pesos is like $7.50 USD.
We walked until we reached the end of the walk. There were some stalls but many of them seemed abandoned or just empty.
We got to a small farmer's market (or that's what I think it was).
Then we got to some kind of ghost market. Everything was abandoned, dusty, and broken.
This was part of the abandoned stalls. It was really weird, there were around 20 stalls and they were all protected by gates. It was very strange and kind of creepy.
I kind of love my city's street art, although this rat cutout is a blatant copy of Banksy's stencils, but anyways, that's better than nothing, ha.
I want to do this again, I feel that I've been neglecting my personal photography and all I've been doing is just shooting client work. I think the reason is that I'm too scared to take my camera and so I leave it at home, but there are other alternatives to be honest. I have my good share of film cameras and I can easily replace them if something happens, at least it would be easier to replace them compared to my DSLR, so expect more film photography. I'm going to take two rolls to develop today. I'm very excited! One of them is an X-pro film and I'm just really excited to see how it will turn out! I've never played around with an X-pro film before, so we'll see.