on film : the blue sky

canon av-1 + centuria 200 film

I took the blue sky with me that day, I saw this picture and it took my breath away. The hues and colors that infused on my mind, makes the clouds and the colors stand still in time…

on lomo film : baguio mines view

vivitar uw&s + expired kodak elitechrome + cross-processed

It was noon when we headed over to mines view to look at well, what else? the view. This place still stands as it is. I never saw the daredevil kids who would wave cups tied to sticks as people threw money over the ledge. Now it’s just a mess of souvenir stands, throngs of people and grilled eatables. I feel dejected.

photoworld the sequel

I took the leave today to prowl photoworld once again for film hunting. I wanted to check what other film supplies are available within my reach and how I can get them without all them crazies running about and hoarding everything while I only wanted a roll or two.

Beside that, a dpp member asked me to inquire of some Ilford films in the event, which I obliged as I was looking for film as well. Moving on.

I didn’t have time in the morning since I left at around 10:30. I started my trek to meet with an old friend for lunch. The whole chit-chat of the program will remain on my personal blog. So I will just post pictures of the food :D

I had the pasta dish of golden crusted chicken, ham and cheese crepe, and angel hair pomodoro.

Jr had the Carbonara, he needed carbs for the Gym.

His treat for me. Nachos.

The lunch ended and I was back prowling film. I swung by Lucky and still no b&w, I bought one supercolor (roll #1).

I circled the whole mall 3 times looking for aperture and I finally found it (the tarp had their name on it at the bottom), I asked of their Ilfords (or the elusive Ilfords, if I may add) and Sir Frank was happy enough to make random babbles with me about film and photography and different techniques and methods while his friend and him ate peanuts and I talked about the crazies who hoard film :). I bought a roll of Ilford 100 which he gave me a sweet little discount which made me really happy.

But then something caught my eye…talk about the mother of old school cameras. It was one of those things that you haven’t seen much except for the old b&w films. Enticing. It was a large 5×7 panoramic camera…and boy was it good looking.

Tempting actually… :) I asked of the price, it seems reasonable enough, and…I had some monies…

Yummy

Uh-oh…(bai will kill me…)

Guess what I got a hold of bai…

on film : frozen bananas anyone?

canon av-1 + kodak professional t400cn

I had to give myself kudos for applying the right DOF for this picture. Bai, Helen, and Atsi are all sharp and un-blurry. This was shot in Ayala Center Cebu while Helen and Bai were looking at how the frozen Bananas were made (I was innocently shooting at the background), Atsi was smiling like her cat-ate-the-canary grin. It was funny :)

on lomo film : shangri-la mactan

vivitar uw&s + kodak expired elitechrome + cross processed

This was one of the first few times I used the vivitar uw&s, and boy I was so happy when the pictures came out so grainy and happy looking. I remember Bai and I were so OA with that we brought most of his lenses and I just brought all my cameras down to the beach. :)

Well I was happy we did. Or I wouldn’t be getting something as pretty as that! ♥

on film : donna

No, this is not me obviously, but we have the same name. :) It made her really easy to remember me, and we became instant friends.

canon av-1 + konika minolta vx100

I asked permission to take her picture and I guess she was a bit shy about it because she got all flaky with the register. Hehe, which reminded me of my personal project which got a lot of people flustered when I was aiming and focusing with my camera (that took a really long time because of the manual focus. hihi). :)

lost in photoworld.

Sounds like some horrible rendition of a video game. But I was able to go to Photoworld this afternoon despite me getting irked from not being able to go tomorrow for the b&w seminar.

I got there around 5:30 in the afternoon. And was greeted by a throng of people milling around the activity center. Here were the Bigger exhibitors : Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Kodak, Olympus, Hp, Panasonic, and others.

And yes, poor me was once again enticed by the sparkly, shining film and bought a couple of rolls of Max Versatility,som e Ekta/Elitechrome (eek, bai will spank me for that o_o), and 5 rolls of prophoto.

I only brought these home for cooling.

*blushes. Av-1 and Vivi would be very happy. So would be Smena if it gets home. :)

I was trying to look for the dpp booth and I eventually found it when I saw the other booths set up at the walkways of Glorietta.

I saw Nino talking up storm with a bunch of other people in the booth. I was trying to catch his eye and he finally did.

We exchanged hellos and French-style kisses, and introduced me to a whole lot of people whom I obviously didn’t catch any of their names, He broke away from our conversation to continue on chatting with his guests, while I looked at the back issues.

When I found out it was only 150, I bought the black is back issue (for the love of black and white).

I have no actual photoworld photos except for the next one.

When the crowd died down, Nino sat on the carpeted floor of the booth. I sat down as well and we chit-chatted for a bit while people came and went :) I took a pic of us at the booth, and here’s the crappy result. :)

the happy tard and the skippy tard. :P

I met up with frank and jas after and we looked around, since I was waiting for the 7pm shuttle back to the office, I had to bid them a goodbye and waited for it.

Since the Digiprint booth was near the SM exit, I went back and chitchatted with Nino before leaving.

I’ll go back to take pictures on Monday or Tuesday. :)

on lomo film : helen

Helen

vivitar uw&s + expired elitechrome +cross processed

The sun was shining brightly through the windows. Helen was just looking. 1 + 1 = 1 picture.

on film : jp rizal

canon av-1+konika minolta vx100

It was the usual Sunday affair at Powerplant. I was driving and noticed the clouds were pretty over up north and gray and gloomy over at the south. Which meant the JP rizal side would be pretty.

I was right.

When I got separated with the folks and my sister and told them I was going to the bookstore, I sneaked out went to JP Rizal overlooking the Pasig River.

Nobody minded me when I was taking shots, but there was a dude who asked if I was Korean. Lesigh.

for the love of film

I was miffed over the scarcity of B&W film in the usual photo hubs that I called up Fuji main office to inquire regarding stocks of their Neopans. They were currently out of stock that time ( around 3 weeks ago , I think ) and I left my name and contact number and asked them to call me back.

They did, last friday I got a call saying they have the rolls I wanted and I told them I’ll go pick it up either today or next week.

So I planned to take a trip to Sto. Domingo to pick up the film. I purposely didn’t bring my laptop and cameras except for renault for this trip.

I never ventured much around Quezon City except for Banawe, Sta. Mesa and random parts of Timog and Libis, all in the comforts of a car. So going there via commute sent me into another heaping truckload of excitement and fear.

It was easy, Sto Domingo was a major road along a major avenue so I got there with only time as my enemy. I was tempted to ride a taxi but flatly refused when the hawker gave me an outrageous price of 150 pesos.

She can shove the taxi and the 150 up her… moving on…

It was around 5:20ish when the jeep finally moved to EDSA and around Quezon Avenue. I made sure to check my landmarks and got down with an SUV beeping the hell out of me and the Jeep to have stopped in the corner.*oops.

It was 5:40.

It seems as if I was getting a bit lost, remembering the instructions of the Fuji girl, I continued to walk straight ahead and I was already going to ask for help when I saw the sign. Whee!

I asked the miss about the films, who probably looked a bit alarmed at my very confused,tired, wasted, panicky, and baffled state when she told me it was out of stock, I told her I asked someone to set aside for me some rolls and I found them, all neatly packed and sealed with my name on it :). I collected my Neopans, gave them a happy smile, went to the church for thanks and started to think on how to get home.

Yes. How to get home. :)

There were no jeeps going towards my place, and it would be really out of the way for any train rides.

Oh to hell with it, I climbed aboard a random jeep and headed myself for (mis)adventure.

*point! click! shoot! hide!
tilted quezon avenue (canon ixy 910 is)

I got down UST, and decided to make a walk for it (congrats to me). I went as far (or as near as :P) Dapitan when I found a tricycle and asked him to take me near enough to walk from my house and far enough not costing me an arm and a leg.

The ride was around 50 pesos. But at least my feet were happy. And I have my babies (lol).

Me and my neopans. :)

hooray for expired films!

I also got some free superias from a friend who don’t seem to have any use for them.Thanks Harmony ♥

Ah, what I’d do for films :)