WALL POST

This is a part of the wall just above my headboard. I try to print some of my film scans to remind me of, I don’t know exactly, moments? stillness? Maybe just something to make me hold tighter to the grip of wanting to chase film photography more, or at least photography in that matter. All I know is that film excites me. It makes me look forward to something, to what else I will learn next, to what else there is. Not being so sure of the future, but I hope feel this is not an ordinary phase that I usually jump into. I want to be able to hold on to this and say that this is mine, and be owned back as well.

We’re halfway through the year, and these six photos coincidentally represent moments of the first half that has been dear to me. I have made certain adjustments in life, things that I would never even have fathom doing or not doing before, but now it feels just right in. I’m sure I wouldn’t even scratch off half of the things I said I would do or be when the year started, but I’m feeling just fine with the way things are. Fine is not good, you’ll say. But fine is enough for me to dream more, and disappoint less.

I’m keeping it simple, but not simpler :)

PASTEL

Taken from different parts of Boracay, yet somehow their hues happen to be of the same color set. Knowing that the settings of my UWS (f/22, 1/125) will only bring out proper exposure in a bright sunny day, I still pushed through shooting these even it’s already late in a cloudy afternoon with an expired film.

I think the grain is still bearable :)

FILM COUNTERPART

These are still from our office team building in Subic last May. What I love the most with my UWS is the glorious effortless vignettes! and just how it captures everything within sight, and sometimes even more.  

Since five rolls of film came back from lab, I’ve realized that the actual shots are even wider than what I see in the viewfinder. And although I’ve read warnings about keeping my finger away from its fat lens, some of it still made through :)

Love these little details that I’m learning with film!

MORE OF BAG OF BEANS

(Seems I forgot these already since my film scans came back from the lab. Film is starting to take me over?) More shots from Bag of Beans visit last month. Love their simple yet fresh look!

MY QUIRKY NOOK

Since another unit has been acquired by the office, a new seat plan has been implemented. Two departments moved across the floor while the remaining departments got relocated. Lucky me, I got immunity haha! I like how my station is secluded enough not to be easily bothered, but situated just right for me to have a view of the common area.

I guess I felt left out when everybody was too busy re-arranging their stuff that I had to re-live this cork board I have not used for months just so I could look and feel busy too, haha! Finally found a way to stick it to the wall and put little things in it and around to make it, ironically, home-y.

Let’s see for how long I could keep the space this neat :D