Get a Hobby and a Clue.
Photography rookie.
That’s probably a bit to generous of a title to give myself. Younger me had always loved film photography and older me who is under the impression that doing anything you want to do is possible decided to give it another try (Yes another, I had tried it at school but had been a rather distracted teen). A couple of sessions at high school and all the photography lifestyle blogs I had read since that time apparently didn’t mean I was going to be shit hot this time around.
Imagine my disappointment.
I bought a canon ae-1 (the beautiful photographs it produces on Charly Cox’s Style the Natives is enough of an advert to make you want one) last year and struggled for an hour trying to get the film in.
Warning Bells.
Once set up I walked around snapping pictures of my little one and the industrial scene near my house (a little shipping container yard). I used up a whole roll pretty quick because I was just casually “putting a roll of film through it” as the pros would say, not long after that me ‘the pro” went to rewind the film but somehow managed to break the spool on the film canister and it didn’t rewind properly or at all if I remember correctly, I thought pulling all the film out of the camera and manually rewinding it myself was a good idea because it was probably going to be ruined either way (it definitely was after I did that). I swore at myself afterwards and tried to keep it in the dark as much as possible wishfully thinking that despite my man handling perhaps the local photography shop could still salvage the poor thing . At present it still lies in the dark of my Casio watch tin awaiting to either be developed or chucked away. The canister seemingly acts as its tomb if this was true the tomb stone would simply read “Here lies Kodak 200…… Who never had a hope in hell” or “I’m Super Sorry Love Pabs” The point of this seemingly pointless story is to remind myself that shit happens. You should take up that hobby you’ve been putting off and you should let yourself be inspired to try new things but my gosh clue yourself up and read about it first………… Ya Bloody Rookie.
