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Another one of my many homes :)

One of My Many Homes

Being a Third Culture Kid, I have many homes:
Houston, where I am now and am originally from; Holland, where my family currently resides; Sarah Lawrence, where I have been at school the last two years; and soon to be Trinity College Dublin, where I will spend the year abroad. These are some photos of the town where I live in Holland, Wassenaar. Shot with my Diana Mini.

We Are, Once Again, Doing Something New

Ok, clearly the plan to keep up the blog was not working. Why?

I think putting up so many photos at once was a bit of the problem.
So what now:
Since I stopped blogging as much I've become a film photographer. That's right. Film. Specifically a Lomography film/camera photographer. I have three film cameras at the moment, and hope to get a fourth soon. I have a Diana Mini with a Diana + Flash, a Holga, and a Polaroid (though that's not lomography..) and hope to get a Four Lens Action Sampler. Before I move on, let me say that I am in no way affiliated with Lomography.com, I'm just linking them because these are their products. I also don't mean to imply I buy from this website.
Right.
So lots of film photos, as well as digital. Another plan is to take down the number of photos to one or two a day, just cause if I put them all in one post, then it's a lot of waiting till the next batch of photos are taken for the next post. This also means there may be some re-posting of some previously posted photos every once in a while. Hopefully you can bear with me?
Also, with this post I go...shall we say.. Live?
So far I haven't advertised, as it were, on my facebook or anywhere else. Now, my friends, my photos are for all of you to see! I feel like especially since we will all be separate for over a year (or for you in Holland, have been separated for a while already,) it's a good way for you to see what I'm seeing or have seen.

Enjoy!


From this post.

Diana Mini Goes To NYC

My mother and I went into the city a ton while she was here.

I brought along Diana Mini.
One of the things we did was wander along the High Line at sunset.

Some of the photos are rather grainy, but I don't mind. That's what you get with film!
And next time, for sunsets, a higher ISO!



You can see so much of the city from there. Like this building:



I took this photo through the railing!


The great thing about this camera is the way you can play with light.



I love all the little light squiggles!
This is probably my favourite:


I would encourage everyone to visit the High Line, it's so beautiful.
It will be wonderful in the summer; I can't wait!

Film Camera

I recently got myself a Diana Mini. Which is an adorable tiny film camera.

Then, it snowed (as it is now) and of course, I had to go have fun.

I was taking it set so that I took half frames, which turned out pretty fun


Something else fantastic you can do, is since you advance the film, you can layer images.




Doesn't this look just like a barn in the woods?

Snow

This Saturday it was supposed to snow again,

but it missed us (in NY) and dumped it all on the South.
As in, three feet of snow in Maryland. What?
Well this winter Holland was (and still is to some extent)
covered in an unusually large amount of snow.
To celebrate that:





This nature reserve is literally a two minute walk from my house.
From this direction, you can see nothing but trees and a field.


And my father.

But from this direction:


There are tons of people skating on the pond!

A few other shots of the snow around my village:

Munster

As I previously mentioned, we went to Munster over Christmas break.

Our main purpouse in going was to visit the Christmas Markets Germany is famous for :)
The main purpose of these markets (to me) is to eat wonderful German Christmas foods.
So you'll notice in a lot of these photos, people are holding something that they're in the process of eating. Yum!




Munster is also known for it's beautiful gabled houses



And it's Cathedral


And I loved it's Christmas Decorations :)