blue

Lost in Thought
LC-A+RL

I love the blues in Lomo X-pro film :)

I love dogs

I used to have a male shih tzu way back in high school. His name was Tag and he died on January 26, 2001. If I ever loved a dog as much as I did a human, it would have been him. Tag didn't die of old age. He was poisoned by a neighbor who robbed us three days after he died. Eight years after Tag, we had a German shepherd named Piper, and two Golden retrievers Spike and Diego. I didn't love them as much as I loved Tag (most likely because they had to live outside).

Diego

Now that my husband's shih tzu has given birth, he has reserved one of the puppies for me. I've already named him Chico. Such a darling puppy that I can't wait to cuddle him in my arms like I would a baby. It was my son who chose him from the litter and I couldn't have been more pleased with his choice. I love dogs. I can already see myself crying when the time comes that he passes away.

Chico
camera phone photo taken by my hubby

finally, a colorsplash flash that works

Notice the fold on the color gel? It was originally misaligned so I couldn't turn the color wheel properly

This is the only sign that I opened it. After fixing the gels in the wheel, the spring attached to the power button fell out.

My colorsplash flash is finally back to normal with no more derailed or misaligned color gel filters and the formerly depressed, lopsided power button is now back to what it once was. I reopened my colorsplash flash and finally figured out where the spring was supposed to be.

I had 3 choices to get a new flash. One was to send it back to Austria, the next was to just keep it even if it were defective, and the last was to destroy it. "If you want to get a new flash you have to destroy it," was what Sarah Jungreithmayr of Lomography told me. They're having a Lomo-destruction themed blog coming out soon and if I sent in how I creatively destroyed mine, I would have received a new flash in return. If I weren't able to fix my flash, I would rather have sent it back than destroyed it :)

I followed the instructions on this blog as a guide in opening my colorsplash flash: How To Hack Your Colorsplash Flash

Moleskines

One of my online buddies at Twitter remarked that Moleskines must be the new Filofaxes. In this day and age of digital organizers and blogs, it is refreshing to see that there are still a lot of people out there who would rather scribble in a Moleskine (or any other paper-based organizer). Books are slowly being digitized now but I would still rather have the real thing. It may be a convenience to save it all in one place but my eyes feel strained after reading continuously on a laptop or PDA. Anyways, I would probably buy a Moleskine for Christmas--that is, if the latest Starbucks organizer isn't to my liking. Then again if I don't want to spend, I still have a Lomo notebook stashed away which I really ought to use because the calendar's only up to 2010 ;)

For those of you who are interested in buying Moleskines locally, check out Avalon.ph for more details.

30cm closer for my Diana Mini

I should have posted this a long time ago but I totally forgot about it until tonight. I used my Fuji Instax Mini close up lens (the one for my LC-A) on my Diana Mini and it came out better than expected. I can now shoot 30cm nearer from the original 1.96ft (59cm). Not bad right? :)

resurrecting my Olympus XA2

School Time

Cleaning Up After The Flood

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fter deciding to archive my Olympus XA2, I took another chance and loaded it with another roll of Kodak BW400CN. I grudgingly admit that the results were sharper than with my LC-A+RL. I love it. Hope to use it more again in the future :)

I need a new flash

My good old reliable Holga Mini flash doesn't seem to go with my LC-A+RL. It works fine all right but I still have to maneuver my finger on that little space before I press the shutter button. Maybe I'll go buy myself a colorsplash flash this month :)