thankful for the world

i spent the day with my family today, loved every minute of it, and am thankful for life, just as it is right now.

here are some photos that have absolutely nothing to do with thanksgiving or my family, but they're some more from the rolls of film i finally developed from my holga.

this motel is the best phenomenon in la mirada. its so cute.

megan and jason's engagement session from forever ago! isn't that light-leak amazing? it's kind of heart-like. kind of speech-bubble like. kind of magical.

trip to arizona with den!

have a great great night everyone :)

happy happy thanksgiving.
{{{my favorite food items are the cranberry sauce, the pumpkin pie, and the post-dinner coffee. yours?}}}

more holga photos, finally

some of these photos were taken a year ago.

the roll of film rolled around my car for a year, and i finally got it developed yesterday.

oh, film.
oh, neglect.
oh, the things you can do when you have less homework because of thanksgiving break.

so!
here are the results.
it was like Christmas.
i forgot i even took these!
it was so fun to get them back.
remember the days of going to Sav-On back when it was Sav-On and getting film developed? did you know one of my first jobs was working in the 1-hr. photo at Sav-On? Well it was, and here are my holga photos from forever ago-

woah mama is all i have to say about this one.

a magical triangle at a really cute yellow motel

the porch, and apparently a big light leak

during a carwash, one of my favorite detox pastimes

morning in tropicana, which i love

and, more tomorrow!
thank you world, for existing

-------------------------------------- shannon

Holga images from Old Town Orange

Yes, I will still stay true to Polaroids, but I have found a new love.
the Holga.
its a plastic toy camera that uses medium format film and produces the coolest images, mainly because the camera is so crappy. i love the aesthetic of holga photos-- they are usually blurry and vignetted and have weird coloring. in my eyes, PERFECT!!

my friend Brady gave me one for my birthday, {which isn't until November 29th-- but early presents are way more fun!!!} so while he was visiting last week we used it around Old Town Orange, which is one of my favorite places to hang out and shoot.

Now, it was such a coincidence that Brady bought me one, because I had been borrowing one from the art department at my school THAT WEEK!! I had never shot with a Holga before, and wanted to try it out. When he gave me my ownnnnn I was so excited :)!

The rolls I shot with the one from school are terrible.
Seriously, terrible.
I decided to develop the film in the darkroom myself,
and only three of the photos turned out.
And they're completely grey and blurry.

As you can see here,
the photos are,,,,, not my best.

they look way cooler in this picture than they look in real life. believe me on this one.

try number two came out with much more success. probably because i didnt develop them myself, and probably because i remembered to tape up the back so it didn't fly open like it did on the last roll.

okay, branches and alleys are just interesting to me EVERY TIME i see them. every time.these are really color, but i decided that they look rad in black and white. well, and the wall is white anyway.i love how it gave me a cool silhouette and teal sky. mmm.
here's it is, alive and well on my front patio,

i have a ton of rolls of film for it(apparently brady has hundreds lying around his house?), so I plan to shoot with this a lott!

oooh- and again, I'll lay it out there: I'll do a purely polaroid and holga wedding for free if you're up for the uncertainty of toy-film-cameras.
:)

iiiiiiiiii'd do it.
my husband who is yet to be named better be up for it.