Howdy friends. I hope you're well. I've been awfully busy these days, as it's my first week of spring classes. Exciting but tiring!
For Christmas, I bought myself a cute '40s Argus C3. I used to be very interested in film photography in highschool, but then one day my creaky thrifted '70s camera broke and I couldn't afford a new one, and that kind of fizzled out. It's really nice to work with film again! This is the first roll I've shot in the Argus, and I'm thrilled that they turned out so well... I was kind of expecting them to turn out all blurry and full of light leaks, since it's such an old camera and I did get it on eBay, ha. There were some peculiar double exposures, but I find them charming.
These were all taken out on the roads around where I live. The barn is by the previously abandoned house I used to explore as a kid, but someone is fixing it up now... good for the house, but I'll miss riding my horse around it and peering in the dusty windows. Well, at least I got to smuggle out the front of a beautiful upright piano top from the dumpster; it's Victorian and hand carved with flowers.
Oh, charming photographs!
ReplyDeleteI really love everything about that first photo: the composition, you look gorgeous, the styling...
ReplyDeleteThe ghosty ones are a bit scary. Argh!
These are beautiful Dakota. The double exposures are eerily beautiful, in the best kind of way. The area where you live looks like the place my dreams are made of. I hope we can see your piano find one day.
ReplyDeleteOh, thank you, ladies!!
ReplyDeleteThe double exposure thing is a little freaky, especially as it was just the pictures of me that have it, haha! Maybe I'm a ghost! That would explain a lot...
And I will definitely be showing off my piano piece (didn't take the whole thing, just the front placket!) once I've cleaned it up a little; it's so pretty!
I love what you did here. The pictures came out gorgeous and I love them all, the double exposure ones are my the best!! you just inspired me to go get myself a "brick" of my own!! lol!
Deletethis place of yours is really something else!
ReplyDeletelove the photos, sounds like those creepy old-ones (but on a very good way, i mean!)
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Your photos look straight outta the set of Calamity Jane! You just can't beat the effect a real camera gives images.
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Ooh lovely, this makes me want to work with film! I especially like the double exposure of what looks like bark over a picture of you? Really interesting to look at.
ReplyDeleteI love the double exposures!
ReplyDeleteThese photos are wonderful! i love the one you took of yourself in the mirror. Something about the old style of photography is so rich and magical. Our perfect digital images fall flat against their flair and beautiful imperfections. What a pretty world you've captured!
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful!! I would love to take up using film again. My husband has an argus he calls "the brick" (I guess that was a nickname for it?) but your camera is SO cute, and the photos are glorious.
ReplyDeleteWow! I love the first one and the second one especially. Does that camera take 35mm? And are those the actual colours or did you tweek them in photoshop at all...? I've been meaning to pick up film again for years but just haven't. Perhaps this year :)
ReplyDeleteI think double exposure is awesome. I found a stack of pictures with double exposure when I was a kid and I had no idea what it was. I thought they were ghosts since I watched a lot of Unsolved Mysteries when I was a kid lol.
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Love the film effects, especially the image where you're standing next to the fence. You look ghost-like. Such whimsically beautiful photos!
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WOW! I am just echoing the above sentiments, but I can't tell you how wonderful these photos are! Haunting, spooky, beautiful, peaceful - great work!
ReplyDeleteLove the black and white pic with you in it
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Thanks y'all!! I'm really glad you enjoyed seeing them, and I'll be sure to have a lot more in the future as me and "the brick" here get to know one another!
ReplyDeletePolly, it's actually the same landscape in that double-exposure, but one is vertical and one horizontal. I like that one too!
Rueby, it is indeed 35 mm, and no, I don't even have Photoshop... it's just the good ol' Argus at work. Though I turned that double-exposure picture into black-and-white in iPhoto, as it was too confusing with color, haha.
the photos are AWESOME!!! I esp like the double exposure ones and the first one with the mirror. Makes me want to find an old film camera!
ReplyDeleteThese are absolutely beautiful! The double exposure of you in the field (ish thing?) is lovely. I've seen so many amazing film photos around blogs recently, reminding me of how I need to stop relying on my DSLR and keep using my 15 or 20 misc film cameras.
ReplyDeleteWow, your blog is just like stepping in to a magical work! So gorgeous, as always. Love your cardigan and furry collar :)
ReplyDeleteI love them all, especially the double exposure ones. Your photographs are always so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWow! I adore these!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful! And you also look wonderful as always. (:
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These are amazing, I love seeing photos from you they are always so enchanting x
ReplyDeleteOh wow! I love these photos. I still occasionally use film but I'm never particularly pleased with how they turn out. I love yours though.
ReplyDelete-Andi x
Oh, I love these! The light leaks and the double exposures make them so unique and a little bit creepy (in the best way!). You picked the perfect day to shoot too, the light with the grey clouds...just perfect.
ReplyDeleteGosh, now I want an Argus of my own!
Love reading your posts - you've been mentioned in my 2011 favorites blogs:
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Playing with photography can be tricky - love your creations and subject matter.
ReplyDeleteGreat job with these photos. I know what you mean I too am trying to get back into photography!
ReplyDeletealthough I'm dying for a digital SLR so it's easier to share with my blogger friends!
such as you with the sweet blue dresses.
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What a lovely array of soft, dreamy, wonderfully serene images. Many thanks for sharing your charming snaps with us.
ReplyDelete♥ Jessica
These photos are wonderful - they're really making me pine for open space!
ReplyDeleteThere's something so special in the texture of 'real' photographs that digital just doesn't have _ I'd say the same as for vinyl rather than digital, or cinefilm rather than digital film.
I love the photo of you standing in front of the barn and the double-exposed one in front of the fence is fantastic - very atmospheric and mysterious!
Thank you all so very much for the kind words!! It's funny how bleak and boring the hills of Vermont usually seem to me, but through photographing them I can really see just how strikingly beautiful it is too.
ReplyDeleteTo anyone considering getting an Argus, it's so easy to use and you'll feel really sophisticated and time warp-y using it. Go for it!!
Ooh my goodness - these pictures are so lovely! I can't wait to see what you photograph next Dakota!
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Wow, what a lucky find for you to get to smuggle out of the house! I'm totally jealous. The photos are fantastic. I can't wait to see what else you have on your blog!
ReplyDeleteThank you Kailey! And nah, I'm a luddite... no Facebook either, haha!
ReplyDeleteSybioticLife, thank you, and welcome! My house is 75% kitted out in creepy old antiques salvaged from abandoned houses, sad to say.
Oooh I'm so glad you scored the beautiful piano, plus that someone cares enough to restore that beautiful old place. I completely ADORE the pics from your new camera - they could have been taken at any time in the past 70 years - you look so amazing with the fur collar and like a little ghosty!! xo
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