Film Photography

There are periods of my life, when I just make and make and make photographs. It's not that compulsive like it was before, still photographs have property to kind of settle on my computer and then on hard drive, just heading somewhere to eternity. 

(GO NOW signpost/ знак Go Now/ Иди Сейчас).

Film photography has always been very special to me. When I was 17, my first boyfriend gave me old russian camera Zenit as a birthday gift. It's an (electro)mechanical camera. It didn't have exposure meter, so I was exploring Zenit with the help of V. 

(All these three are view from my window/ Эти три - вид из моего окна).

When I was 15, my mother took me to Paris for a week. That time I was studying in high school and we chose a week in October to come there and spend time together. I had Canon EOS 300 with me, light film slr camera, which I used on auto mode. I used about 9 films there and was very surprised to find some really nice pictures after printing all of them. Quite soon I became obsessed with taking pictures. I was taking pictures of everything: small things, plants, myself, strangers and familiar people. I had stacks of photographs because I could only print the whole entire film to actually look through all the shots. I'm glad that one day I discovered that negatives can be scanned.
Before discovering film I had soap digital camera and even was playing around some editing programs, still it hadn't the thrill that film photography and even digital photography gave me.

In Van I was collecting rolls that I used, and during Christmas break I developed and scanned some. After I came back I started to use film Pentax again. I was putting rolls into special box until I got extremely ready or just sad and came to London Drugs with 2 of them. They developed and digitized them for $30, that is really extreme, though I don't regret at all.