53 | Film Series II

(Taken with Pentax K1000, Kodak Portra 200 Film)

Working with a manual film camera was the most challenging and exciting thing ever. Bring it along with me to a city that I've never been to before adds to the whole challenging thing. It's never easy carrying a camera around. It weighs you down, quite literally. And it's always a risk. A risk to take that one shot, praying hard that you are in focus, your hands didn't shake up or that someone didn't run right into your lens because that would really be a bummer. But I did got out of focus, shook up and had someone walked right in just as I hit the button. I also had the pleasure of experiencing the top woes of shooting on film - wasting a roll of film. I was devastated but I expected it. However I'm glad I at least got a roll of films to look back on and it encourages me to continue learning and challenging myself. Cause hey, nobody said it was easy; you just got to try try try.



(I contemplated hard whether to edit these or even align them properly but I decided to just leave them as how they were captured, I think I like them better that way.)

50 | Israel On Instax

I know it will take me ages to get my Israel photo diary together so here's Israel On Instax to appease you and myself for the time being.

(All shot on Instax 25s)

I think it was worth the effort lugging my Instax out everywhere I go on top of my SLR. Film is forever. 

44 | Hong Kong Diary

Hong Kong was hot. And half the time it felt so much like Singapore - the crowd, the weather and the rush from one place to another. The one thing I never got used to was standing on the right of the escalator instead of the left, like we do here in Singapore. I ate non-stop, walked almost everywhere and soaked in the blazing hot sun, wind and sights. I wouldn't say I recharged on this trip or slowed down much but it felt great snapping away on my camera instead of punching numbers on my calculator. I wasn't too much into getting more clothes, just more nanoblocks and scarves. Besides, with a three month 9 to 6 office job coming up, pretty clothes just seem so uncool for the office.

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I didn't have much time to retouch any of the photos above, okay maybe partly because I'm extremely lazy to do so, VSCO cam is too brilliant and convenient that PS seems like a chore now. The extremely bright sun played a part in the photos looking almost flawless without edits so okay sun, you do deserve some credit apart from tuning me ten shades darker. And I finally got down to manually adjusting the aperture and shutter speed for my photos so although I took less photos than usual, I'm proud to say that these weren't auto mode photos 

*pats self on back*

Shot with Olympus E-PL6 42mm