Rome

St Peter's Square. Vatican City. 
Diana Mini. Lomography CN100 film

At the end of last month I was rather unexpectedly whisked away to Rome by my wonderful boyfriend. Rome has been on my list of places to visit for as long as I can remember so you can imagine how excited I was to get the opportunity to go.

I think the thing that amazed me most about the city is that around every corner and at the end of every backstreet there is some amazing building that you just stand in awe of.

Piazza Navona

I can't even begin to describe just how much fun I had or show you everything we saw. I could try, but it wouldn't do it justice.

Spanish Steps

I'll just show you photos instead.

Coliseum

 Pantheon

Castel Sant'Angelo

Taken on the Ponte Sant'Angelo


The Trevi fountain was my favourite though. I could have quite easily stayed here all day.
We threw some coins into the fountain and if the legend is to be believed this means we'll definitely go back to Rome.

Katy

Diana Mini

Diana Mini

Sadly my film cameras have had to go in to hibernation because I can't really afford to use them all at the moment. I figured in the mean time I'd do a post on each of them so I don't forget how wonderful they all are.

This is the Diana Mini and I think it is one of the prettiest cameras I have ever laid eyes on.

I got mine in 2010 while on holiday in New York and although the first roll of film was a little temperamental I fell head over heels in love with the results.

Here's one of the first photos I took with this camera. To this day I have no idea what happened here. I remember the camera refusing to wind on and the film getting ridiculously jammed up, but hey. Accidental double exposures are awesome!

The ace thing about the Diana Mini is that you have a choice of which format you want to take photos in. You can choose the square format: 

Or you can choose half-frame, which looks like this:

Because you get 2 photos on a single print you, technically, get twice as many photos. I like using half-frame because sometimes you can tell a little bit of a story with your prints.

People seem to think I planned this one. I think they give me a bit too much credit, most of the time I'm making this up as I go along:

I still haven't figured out the focus ring. I don't expect any of my film cameras to be particularly sharp, as if I want a perfectly focused, sharp image I'll use my digital camera, but whichever way I turn the focus ring it seems to make no difference to the image.

I don't mind though. I like the soft focus, it makes everything look slightly dreamy.

And sometimes it's quite nice when things go spectacularly wrong.

This one is my absolute favourite.

 The image on the left is the carousel in Bryant Park in New York and the image on the right is the sun rising over London 10 hours later. 

I guess the moral of the story is that making it up as you go along is perfectly okay.

Katy