Rollei Retro 100, Minolta SRT 101
The start of our mini summer holiday; a walk on Hellestø beach after driving the 5 hours from Bergen to our hometown Sandnes. It was just what we needed.
Kodak Ektar 100, Minolta SRT 101
Here are a few words on Il Cipresso posted two weeks ago.
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Why do you shoot film, Caroline?
Everytime I would visit my grandma's house as a little girl, there were a few classic things I did. One of them was chewing on mint in her garden and eating homemade muffins. The other was sitting on the sofa with the same 4 photo albums and browsing them endlessly. I think film photo tends to be printed, looked at more and shared. I can understand why. It's genuine, authentic and I love the fact there is no instant gratification like digital photos.
Also, I will continue to shoot film because I find it hilarious when I see people with 20 lenses, a 5,000 dollars camera shooting 250 photos of the same thing. I love the look on their face when they see me, with my tiny lomo lc-a, doing that clingy "tiiing" sound when I press on the button.
You can see more of Caroline's film photos in this and this set on Flickr.
Monday August 22
home, Bergen
Tuesday August 23
at my friends' place, Stavanger
Wednesday August 24
at my friends' place, Håbafjell, Sandnes | at my parents' place, Sandnes
Thursday August 25
at my friends' place, Ålgård | at my friends' place, Ganddal
Friday August 26
Kaffemisjonen, Bergen | Godt Brød, Bergen
Saturday August 27
home, Bergen
Sunday August 28
out walking, Nygårdsbroen | out walking, Store Lungegårdsvann
PS: Click on each photo to view them bigger | the dinner project 2010, week 34 | the big 2011 renovation | more thoughts on sharing my everyday life
I really enjoyed reading your response on my post about sharing my everyday life. As mentioned a few times, I have a few more thoughts to share – mostly replies to your comments. Here goes!
Kodak Ektar 100, Canon EOS 500N
Rita talks about how other people’s lives inspire her to improve her own life (and I am humbled to hear that I have inspired her – and maybe others?). I can absolutely relate to this. I don’t think I have done any actual changes in my life because of something I have read/seen on blogs, but I most certainly keep other people’s images, ideas and words in the back of my mind as small reminders to myself. A reminder for example to try a new recipe, to notice the beauty in a pile of old newspapers or dishes, to appreciate having a garden and a home filled with beautiful light.
Like Jenna mentions, I am most of all reminded to focus on the positives. Doing a daily photo project, like my everyday stories, especially forces me to focus on the positives. Like Alyce says: “Not every week comes wrapped in a bow with lots of photo opportunities.”
Fuji pro 160C, Canon EOS 500N
Lisa mentions that she asks permission from her family and friends before she posts photos of them. I do that too, because I know that not all of them are happy about having their photo posted for the whole world to see. This is also part of the reason why I have developed this style of “Flickr friendly” people photos; photos that have a human touch, but you cannot see or recognize who the person is – like all the photos in this post. I love photographing people but I respect that everyone doesn't love have their photo taken. Most people will agree to these kind of photos though.
Canon EOS 40D
Lisa also mentions posting photos of children, which is something a few of you have asked; what are my thoughts on sharing photos of children now that I have a baby girl coming soon. I have thought quite a bit about this, and I always find debates about this theme very interesting.
When I post photos of myself, Sølve or my family/friends we have agreed to it; we know what it implies to have our photo posted online and we are ok with it. When (or if) I post photos of our baby girl, she will not be able to agree to it. At some point she will be old enough to have an opinion on this (hopefully based on her parents’ thoughtful guiding) and she will have an online life of her own. I don’t want to put her in an awkward/embarrassing position because of everything I posted about her when she was a baby/toddler/kid. I will probably post a few photos of her, but I’m guessing they will mostly be “Flickr friendly”.
That said, I respect that other parents have a “less restricted” attitude to posting photos of their children. We all have different levels of how edited our lives are online.
Kodak Ektar 100, Olympus mju
Snosen comments: ”Your posting rate is impressing, how do you keep up?” Blogging and posting photos to Flickr has become part of my everyday routine. Normally I do it whilst eating breakfast and when I slow down in the evening. I like keeping a regular posting rate as I think (or hope) it will keep you guys coming back because you know there will often be something new here. Then the question is; would I keep blogging if I didn’t have an audience? It is no doubt more fun to share when you have someone to share with. So as long as I feel that all this sharing gives me something in return, I will keep doing it.
Anyway, my secret to keeping up with this daily posting rate is simply to keep each post rather simple and to prepare posts ahead on days when I have time to do so.
Kodak Portra 160vc, Canon EOS 500N
I’m still curious to hear your thoughts on sharing your everyday lives, so keep them coming!
Such a beautiful table! And I like the placement of the artwork. A lovely space in general. Photo by Ailine Liefeld for Freunde von Freunden
Fuji Superia Reala 100, Canon EOS 500N
- reading your thoughts on sharing your everyday lives (I'll post a few more thoughts on this soon)
- a trip south to my hometown Sandnes for work that also included meeting up with several girlfriends and their babies
- renovation progress and soon seeing the end of it
- my mum's homemade moose meatballs with boiled potatoes and gravy
- people watching and lunch outside in the sun with a girlfriend whom I haven't seen in several years
- season four of Gossip Girl (we all have our guilty pleasures, right?)
- this photo by Molly, this by Jen and this by liivia s
- spending less time in front of the computer than I normally do
Everyday stories outtakes from week 33 in August.
By the way, as I mentioned here I have wondered whether or not I should post all the everyday stories outtakes to Flickr as well as here. Now I've decided to only post them here and the My Everyday Life 2011 set on Flickr has been made private. I post photos there only for backup purposes. I will of course still post photos to my Flickr, including some of the outtakes, but there will often be more photos here on the blog. I don't know if anyone would have noticed if I didn't tell you, but now you know anyway ;-)
Different seasons, different cameras, different films. Our bedroom window at the family holiday home, Åsly, at Voss.
Fuji Superia Reala 100, Canon EOS 500N
Kodak Ektachrome E100VS, Minolta SRT 303
Agfa Precisa 100, Canon EOS 500N
Agfa Precisa 100 (xpro), Canon EOS 500N
Rollei Retro 100, Olympus mju
Kodak Ektar 100, Minolta SRT 101
Here are a few words on Il Cipresso posted last week.
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