Vintage.

The other day I went to the Saginaw Career Complex. I went there for my junior and senior year of high school for the Graphic Arts program where I learned how to take pictures and use all the Adobe programs. I've been visiting that class a lot more lately to help out my teacher. The other day when I went there I was uploading some of my photography to her computer for her to use them as examples for the students. I looked behind me and there was a box of old cameras. I sifted through them to find an old Nikon FM10. This camera is a throw back from 1995. It looks relatively new because of the lens but it still operates on film. After playing around with this camera I fell in love with it. I immediately jumped on craigslist and started searching. I found a Minolta SRT 101 for $25 in Burton, MI. I didn't skip a beat and drove down there and bought it. This camera is a bit older dating back to 1966. It works beautifully though and I am inspired to start developing my own film. After I bought the camera I noticed that half the roll of film was already used up. The thing about using these cameras is that you can't view any of the pictures until the film is developed. This is going to take a lot of getting used to because I quickly took the rest of the pictures in the roll and ran them over to Meijer in hopes that there would be some really old pictures on it from the previous owner. I feel like I wasted half a roll in my excitement because the first half of the pictures were just taken at the garage sale that the woman that sold me the camera had. Oh well... I love it!

In This Lovely Little Village

Deckerville. Have you ever heard of it? Do you know where it is? Not very many people do. Well it's way out in the thumb of Michigan and it's very much full of farm land. I know of this place because someone I know lives out there. I used to give him so much grief about this little place because it was something so new to me. I'm used to street lights at almost every corner, busy traffic, fast food joints, and 7-Eleven's everywhere. Here in this lovely little village there is only one stop light, one McDonald's which is combined with a marathon gas station and loads of farm land. When you hear people say that the city lights ruin the stars at night, they're not kidding. I walked outside around 10:00PM and looked up to the most beautiful sky I had ever seen. I have fallen in love with this place. It's like a photographers dream (besides traveling the world). It's also a pretty short drive to Port Huron so you're not completely cut off from city civilization. I took a little over 200 pictures over the weekend and I'm very glad I did. My pictures are from various parts of Deckerville and a few that are a little more out of town.

There are so many more pictures but that would get pretty ridiculous to put them all in this single post. These few pictures pretty much sum up my weekend. We woke up early Sunday morning to watch the sunrise (last 2 pictures). This is what ended my wonderful weekend. Driving away from this beauty was torture and entering back into the city of Saginaw just wasn't the same.

Fall Beginnings

Finally the color of the leaves are changing to various warm colors of burnt orange, maroon, and browns. I very much enjoy the fact that I can wear jeans and a long sleeve and not be too hot nor too cold. I'm a winter clothes type of girl anyways. As for the view, the colors of the trees make for beautiful and wonderful landscape photos. I will probably be working on a lot of fall shots, seeing as my aunt is my biggest photography fan and she likes to print off my pictures and decorate her home with them. It is quite flattering actually. Apparently the color scheme of her living room is a range of orange and warm colors so she told me to strive for some fall pictures so she can decorate her living room also. There is not enough change in the trees yet to accomplish the pictures I know she wants, but it is still very wonderful outside and I just could not pass up the moment to take some random pictures of the fallen leaves that signal the beginning of fall. The photo above was taken using my fish eye lens that I talked about in my very first blog. That is what a picture looks like when the lens is actually connected to the camera and I'm not just holding it in my hand. I found out after I purchased the lens off the internet that it doubles as a macro lens. Macro shots are really close up shots on a small subject. This lens actually gets some pretty good detail for the low quality that it is. This picture is of a leaf that is starting to change it's colors.

These last couple pictures are just some random ones that I took of the fallen leaves. It was nice just sitting in the sun snapping pictures... one of my favorite things to do in the fall.