New Year Film Giveaway Winner is...

 

The winner by lucky hat draw of the New Year Film Festival Giveaway has been drawn....

Congratulations Much Love Anna!

A million thanks to those who took part in the giveaway... it has been wonderful to get to know new people & new blogs!

Remember to keep an eye out for all your analogue film needs at the Film Festival eBay store... especially when wanting to try out new types of film, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it can be to experiment with B&W, slide and high speed colour negative films.

I hope the New Year has found everyone happy, healthy & with renewed spirits! Who knows what we are capable of in this year of 2012... I think we might just all surprise ourselves yet!

x Mel

It's always darkest before the dawn

LC-A (Kodak E100G)

Once upon a time, instead of creating photographic snapshots of the world. I took syntactic snapshots in the form of poetry. I would never regret my move into photography, but some days I look back on my poetic past and ponder over those lines of words I created.

Today I stumbled on one of my favorite poems, written, what seems like a lifetime ago. To forget about these small stanzas would be akin to forgetting your own child, as every creation has a parent. So here is a that little poem for you.

Megan & Daniel get Married!

Megan & Daniel get Married!

(LC-A with Rollei Crossbird Creative X-Pro 200 film)

 (Instax Mini 25 with Instax Mini film)

Before I jetted off to New York, I had the honour of being at one of my BFF's weddings in Brisbane. It was such a beautiful day that truly celebrated the immense love between two amazing people. Megan had asked me to bring along my Diana Mini camera (I also took my LC-A & Fuji Instax) to take casual photos of their special day. The Diana Mini film is still pending... but here are are few of my LC-A & Fuji Instax photographs.

There was rainbow layer cake, whoopee pies, many glasses of champagne, tears, joy, happiness & loads of love. Megan and Daniel, I again wish you the happiest of lifetimes together.

x Mel

P.S. On occasions like weddings I love instant film, I was able to bundle up all the Instax Mini photos I had taken at the end of the reception and give them to the bride & groom to take on their honeymoon.