Got Della a New Camera to replace her broken one; she made it prettier
Thinking about the time Fuji Instax nearly sponsored her work until they realized she was shooting their film on a Lomo camera and never got in touch again
My partner Della's primary photography of choice is instant; this has been a thing for as long as I've known her. From stockpiling expired medium format peel apart in a fridge to shooting Polaroid Spectra until getting more became a virtual impossibility (she shot all the album art on our 2012 record .:INSTANT GRATIFICATION:. on Spectra; her hand and camera are on the cover and each song has its own page in the photo booklet), to the ever-present 'Polaroid wall' at every house we've ever lived at (example 1, example 2, example 3) - she's been committed to the bit for a LONG time, and Fuji instax Wide became her main go-to.
What we've learned is that she shoots...a lot more than most cameras are ready to handle; she's gone through (I think) a total of 6 Wide cameras of various make over the last 10 or so years - but the ones she loves the most are the Lomos because they have so many more options in terms of photo settings. Double exposures, long exposures, manual flash toggles - it spins circles around the standard issue Wide 400.
All of hers are dead though - and for Birthdaversary this year I picked up the only one I could find in price range (despite a whole tariff fiasco since the seller was from Canada and the Camera was from Japan, thanks orange dude) but it was the black and silver model...and I can't stress enough how much her aesthetic is WAY more in favor of yellows and golds
So she did her thing and well, look at this customized beauty.
Looks so badass dude lmfao
Unrelated timely thoughts
Having grown up in an evangelical megachurch (and promptly done my damnedest to live a life that has as few interactions with organized religion as humanly possible) I think it's funny that the doomsday kids are proclaiming tomorrow the rapture day.That said I was from the kind of church org that would see proclamations like this and immediately discount them as sinners and 'fortune tellers' since no human brain is supposed to be able to understand the LORD nor predict the day of the big J's reunion tour.
I legitimately don't understand what people get out of these people predicting the end of the world. Someone involved has to like, actually believe it and everyone else is there for the potential financial grift, right?