vintage, baby

I was walking to meet my parents in Bath today with a friend, and along the way we passed a few flea market stalls and said friend, John, spotted this! I got him to ask the man running the stall how much he was selling it for, and he said £4. £4! It's now mine, needless to say!
I'm really excited. I looked for and found a 620 film spool for £5 on eBay, and all I need to do now is buy some 120 film (which I think I'll do now before impatience gets the better of me!) and off I go! I really can't wait. I've always wanted to try something like this and now I can.
It's in great condition to. The only part that's missing it something to aid winding the film on, but with pliers it works fine, so, haha.

I can't wait to start shotting.

Camera remote!

I finally bought a cheap camera remote from Amazon. It's not the best out there but it works, and for £5 including postage I'm not complaining (er, yet). I snapped some rather contrived shots over the last few days as fun and tests to get used to it.

They're relatively crap shots (at least, the last I'm not too fond of, haha), but you know, I enjoyed the sunshine and having fun the most! It's not worth it if you're not having fun, either :) The top and middle two were taken late afternoon on my roof, and the other two outside in the garden (as you might guess).
I fully intend to be more creative/less contrived in the near future, but gosh, not today!

Sunday lovely Sunday.

Feel free to laugh - my face looks weird and I ALWAYS seem to look like I'm frowning or cross, haha. So that's not intentional at all. I'll try to re-shape my eyebrwos at some point.
Oh, and cheap (ancient) lipstick? Fail too, but you know. That's what happens when Boots is closed on a Sunday and you fancy taking photos.

However, INSPIRE meet up inspired me to try and well..do more. I have no models and I need to practice at shooting bodies/faces, so I'm using myself.

I should get my remote this week too, which will make life easier. I'll work on more failtraits next week if we have some sun, in other words






uncropped/rotated:

ALSO. For £15 I got these -

10 rolls of expiried film from eBay. I'm not sure when they expired yet, but, it's ridiculously cheap so I'm happy with it. If anyone's interested in these I'll link you to the seller.
I'm excited!