Kimball's with the Kalmanssons

If ever you have the desire to go eat ice cream, I would go to Kimball's (or Rota's). It's a farm...with ice cream and food food and mini-golf and BUMPER BOATS. It's a lot of fun. This whole Kimball's trip was all of Ester's fault : )  She put up a facebook status that mentioned it. I got a call from Beth waking up about Kimball's. We got together with Halla, drove to Littleton. We met up with Amma and Eldora (Beth's grandmother and aunt) and Ester (Beth's aunt) and her two children. It was a lot of fun. Thora and Tristan (Ester's kids) are so cute! We spotted a man walking with a huge plate of fries, and everyone was staring at him, mouths watering.

This is Thora, Ester's daughter. I like this face. I love how she talks. Ice cream, in her way, is like "Eye keeeem" 

Worcester

I spent a lot of time in Worcester. In fact, I even go to school in Worcester. Moreover, Worcester is the place where I buy my Holga's film and process it. I went to go get some film processed. While I waited I walked over to the park on Park Ave (wow)  to take some pictures and enjoy the day.

Nighttime lights

I was driving with Beth on the way home when I stopped and got out of the car. I wanted to take a picture of cars driving. I put the camera on the bulb mode, which keeps the shutter open for as long as you hold it down, and took a picture of two cars driving. The white light is the car that came toward me (headlights), and the red lights are the brake lights from the car. It looks pretty cool. I think it would be pretty interesting to do this at a busy intersection in NYC or something. 

Off to the reservoir

How nice it is to live by a gorgeous reservoir. One morning before work I decided to walk up tothe reservoir and take a few pictures. 

This one is probably my favorite. I took it using a technique called multiple exposure, where you take one picture then take another (or another and another) without advancing the film. The first exposure, clearly, was the sky. The second was of the reservoir's water. It looks pretty neat.

This one looks pretty ominous. This was taken when it started to get cloudy. Notice the vignetting effect the camera causes on the picture, and how it looks dream-like. It's due to the plastic lens. I think this one is great.

New Camera

This whole blog started with a little plastic camera I just bought. It's a Holga. If you don't know what it is, although it's kinda famous, it's a lomography camera built pretty poorly such that it creates "happy imperfections" in the pictures. It used 120mm film. The pictures it yields are gorgeous. Please remember that every single picture that I post is completely unedited. No photoshop, no enhancements. The film is advanced in the camera, the pictures are taken, the film is processed, scanned into my computer, and there you have them. My blog is dedicated to displaying these pictures and the stories behind them.