The One Where I Lost My Brain
This past weekend, I went oldskool.
I went on a photowalk Saturday night, and I used my “old” (ca. 2001) 35mm camera.
By Amy Nickerson Design. Amy makes me feel NOT old.
“Oh!” thinks I. “Instead of going to the battery store, I’ll just hop over to Walmart and pick up film for the 35mm! It’d be fun to work with that one again.”
As it turns out, the saga of getting film and then making an extra trip back to Walmart to get a deities-blasted battery for the 35mm was more epic than would’ve been the trip to the battery store. Murphy, you are SO not my fave, dude.
But, in spite of all the trips to The Evil WM Store and in spite of the 100+ºF heat of the summer afternoon, by Saturday evening I finally found myself in Guthrie, Oklahoma, with Amy, Becca, Ryan, Ann, and new acquaintance Kelsey.
We Be-ed Artsy
In case you’re new to the term, a photowalk is a walk on which you go in order to take photos.
Ba-dum ching*.
Amy organized the whole shindig. Kelsey wanted Amy to teach her some new-camera tricks, so Amy invited the rest of us to tag along and be artsy.
So we tagged along and be-ed artsy.
If you’ve been paying attention, you know that I can’t yet share any of my photos with you — since they’re on 35mm film and have yet to be developed and all. But Amy gave me the go-ahead to share a few of her shots, which just goes to show what a totally cramazing person she is.
THANK YOU, AMY!
Photos are click-to-embiggen-able.
Becca had the perfect look for this shot. And yes, this is Guthrie, OK. Not Hawaii. I promise (sadly).
Amy caught me taking pictures. Don't know how that happened. ; )
Apron. Tied to a fire escape. WHY IS THE APRON THERE?!? Nobody knows.
This is both sad and fabulous to me.
Becca, Kelsey, and Anne. Chillin'.
The artsiness plus that cramazing fan make this one of my favorite photos of me ever. My photog friends are great for my ego. ; )
Sorry for all the weird frame sizes. I pretend to know what I’m doing with this thing called Com Pewt Errr, but it doesn’t always work out.
Of Skunks, Trespassing, and Dapper Defiance of Death
In-between and all around this awesome artsiness, the following took place:
We wampished** about in alleys,
avoided a weaving sort of fellow in a cowboy hat outside a place called the “Blow Out Club,”
called “here, kitty, kitty” to some animals we belatedly recognized as skunks,
trespassed on private property to take shots on the hood of a fantabulous, ancient, orange Ford truck,
composed an awkward “all-the-girls-grab-each-other” shot,
leapt into the air screaming like banshees,
and ran shrieking toward an oncoming train***.
There were also quite a few that’s-what-she-saids.
That was fun, too. ; )
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*This is actually listed in Wiktionary. Oh, the times in which we live.
**I picked this word up I don’t know where, but my notes tell me it’s Scottish dialect for “to wave about or flop to and fro.” I am open to correction on this.
***No photographers were harmed in the making of this photowalk.