playing with a Minolta

Another day at the lake with the boys! Here are some of the photos from the roll of film we experimented with this week. I have a few more from the Farmer's Market, for another post.



Story of this photo: While my sister and I are swimming, I look over and see a big fish swimming towards her. My first instinct, being the nature-minded girl that I am, is to yell and run away. However, this yelling prompted the older Russian couple fishing nearby to jump up, yelling Russian things, hand my sister this long net and look at her urgently. While I stood at a distance, shrieking, my sister takes the net, swoops it into the water, and catches the fish. I was so shocked at this chain of events that I literally laughed for 5 minutes--so, so happy this moment is caught on film.


By the way, if you like film photography, you should check out this post over at despising life is so passe. She has some lovely photos up that are also taken with a Minolta.
Do you like to experiment with film? Do you think it's worth the extra money?

sister friends

I shared a few photos from my sister's visit a few weeks ago, but I wanted to share some more from that week! My boyfriend's best friend was visiting too, and we had so much fun playing in the sun.

I have been dying to make blueberry pancakes for the past month, so my sister and I made a yummy breakfast for the boys with fresh blueberries. I love having coffee/breakfast with loved ones--I think it's my favorite meal to share!




Later that day we hiked to a beautiful place called Fragrance Lake. It was a hot day, and the hike to the lake is 2 miles straight uphill, so it felt so wonderful to jump in the water at the top! We had the lake to ourselves and had a lovely time swimming, laughing, and eating our PB&J's--goin' old school.

When we got home, the boys made us dinner at my boyfriend's new house and we ate on their precious front patio..such a nice end to the day. also, disclaimer: I had food in my mouth when that picture was taken, hence the strange face!

I also have some film pictures from the visit that I will be sharing in my next post. My dad is letting me borrow his Minolta Maxxum 5000i that he bought in the 90s. It has been really fun experimenting with it, and I developed my first roll yesterday. Not all of them are amazing, but a few turned out nicely.
Hope you are all having sunshine in your parts of the world! Here, it has been partly cloudy for what seems like years, with about 60% humidity. Do you know what that is doing to my poor hair?!

Lake Day

bounced around in the sun for 10 hours at Lake Cushman..today is gray and I'm already reminiscing about the brief period of heat!

all I wanna do is have some fun

I had two hours in between my classes today, and instead of doing anything productive I window shopped on the internet (is there a term for that?) for approximately an hour & a half. Luckily for me, my friend Brittany wanted to go shopping today so we left as soon as we finished with classes. And all I bought were summer clothes...two dresses and a beautiful floral tank and various floral jewelry...I am craving summer so, so bad. I'm tired of sweaters and thick tights and boots, I'm ready for sundresses and sandals and swim-suits-under-clothes. I got a small taste of 70 degree weather in New Orleans, and it just made me even more anxious for summer! counting down the days.

"Summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." -Henry James, I feel ya.

(this picture is of two of my girlfriends at Lake Cushman in Washington last summer, on a 104 degree afternoon)