A Day Trip to Bacchus Marsh with MSMinc

LC-A (Lomography X-Tungsten 64 film)

Last Saturday I went on a photo day trip out to Bacchus Marsh (about 40 minutes train ride outside of Melbourne) with the excellent Melbourne Silver Mine Inc. crew. 

As always, I took many cameras... but my trusty little LC-A was again, the champion. It was lovely being out of the city for a view hours while catching up with other film camera geeks, snooping through abandoned houses, past farms & generally having a nosey around the streets of Bacchus Marsh.

This was the first time I've used the Lomography X-Tungsten 64 film & I must say I had high hopes... & most of them were met. I love the variety in the cross processed colours & the low speed. Can't wait to use it again.

Has anyone been on a photo trip out of town lately? 

I hope everyone (in Australia) is enjoying their day off for Australia Day, regardless of your view of it's importance.

x Mel

The Colours of New York City & a New Year!

 

 

 

 

 

New York City July 2011 - Diana Mini 

(Various Film including Kodak Portra 400VC, Lomography X-Pro Chrome 100 & Lomography X-Pro 200)

It's hard to believe that it is Christmas in a week's time, and then a week after that it is New Year 2012!

2011 has been an amazing, exhausting, rewarding, trying, breathtaking & overwhelming year that I am thankful for beyond measure. Between finishing my study full-time, working full-time, travelling to the USA, being involved in my first photographic exhibition & online web comedy, I can hardly say that it has been an uneventful year.

Thank you to all of those people who have played their part in my life in 2011, may 2012 be bigger, better & beautiful!

x

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.

Brooklyn Bridge and LC-A

 

The Brooklyn Bridge

(LC-A with Lomography x-pro chrome film)

I fell very much in love with the Brooklyn Bridge, as you know & I fell even deeper in love after seeing the results of my LC-A shots... I am now convinced that my LC-A cannot take a bad photograph!

I still have so many films to process and scan... each one is such a lovely surprise! 

x Mel

By Road or Air

If one particular activity in life lends itself to photography, it would be travel. Like a visual haiku, travel photographs capture a moment, that exists to jog the memory forever.

Travel photography not only extends to tourist memorabilia, but also to classic road trip photography (imagine Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road') or perhaps even dreamy photographs taken from a window seat on a aeroplane, sun & clouds bursting from the sky.

I love how photographs like these bring back the pure joy, exhilaration and memory of travel. I really wish I had brought my Diana Mini camera when I was travelling Europe in the spring & summer of 2009. I even came close to buying one when I was in Vienna, but I talked myself out of it. It wasn't until I was back in London preparing to come back to Australia that the Lomography bug finally bit me & I brought my first little Diana Mini.

I would love to make my way back to Europe with my analogue cameras, especially Paris. But for now I will have to be content with photographing lovely Melbourne until my next overseas trip in July, New York here I come!

These photos were taken with my Diana Mini on Lomography X-Pro Slide 200 film cross-processed.

♥ Mel

P.S. I can't wait to go to the Diana Mini workshop tomorrow at the Diana World Tour Melbourne exhibition, if you're in Melbourne & interested in going see my previous blog post for details.