Maxigumee

My sister, Lena, and I are attending a one week photography summer camp at Villa Maria college. The scheduling is a very good thing since it’s just getting more organized and less slumpy. Most of the summer, I’ve been staying up into the wee hours and then even the plain old early hours of the morning and sleeping in until noon. With the camp, I’ve had to wake up by at latest eight since it’s at ten in the morning.

The course leaves a bit to be desired since we are covering more of the development techniques than actual art of photography and the teacher is a tad boring and monotonous. My sister said that he reminded her from something out of a movie and that for the short while before she just got way too bored, he was kind of funny. I think he just might be shy. He has a kind of cartoon-like nerdness about him what with the short-sleaved button down shirt and the thick glasses that he pushes up his face every so often.

Yesterday was the first day at camp and for about the first two hours or so, we just sat and listened to our teacher drone on about the history of photography and the parts of a camera. We took some pictures around the campus, and that was kind of fun. I was very disappointed when I accidentally broke my film and lost all of the photos I’d taken.

After camp, my sister, Lena, and I had to ride our bikes all the way to Delaware Photo to buy some new film (because nobody else sells it). At least we got some exercise. It was extremely hot out, though, and we were not only thirsty, but sweating through our clothes. We stopped at the Delta Sonic across the street from the photo place to buy bottled waters from their vending machine. We then rode our bikes around taking pictures at Delaware Park and stuff.

I wasn’t too impressed with the photos after they got developed at Rite Aid, but they looked a lot better when I printed from the negatives myself. A lot of my pictures are too light or too dark to see and I still need to get used to the whole film camera darkroom thing, but I hope to have some good shots by the end.