the patience.

Over the weekend I went to a few garage sales with my Mom and little brothers,

and at one of them I picked up these 2 vintage cameras for $8.

Needless to say I was excited. :)

However, I have to say that the whole world of film really blows my mind.

We are in such a digital, instant age...we want everything now.

An instant e-mail reply, instagram like...a flourishing business.

If you think back to when film was all people had, they would buy their camera and film.

Load the film into it.

Take their photos (which was a limited number depending on the film roll)

Unload the film.

Take it to be developed.

Wait however long until they were ready.

And fiiiinallly get see what they had shot.

And here we are today with our cameras instantly shooting a photo and seeing it one second after..

able to take hundreds of thousands of images at a time, and immediately share them on social media.

 

Talk about patience.

Recently I heard about Vivian Maier, who was a street photographer.

The crazy thing is that she took over 100,000 photographs, 

and the rolls of film were discovered after her death.

Her goal wasn't to get published in newspapers or get praise for her skill..she just shot for herself and captured life as it was.

I got one of her books to look through and was blown away..she was seriously so gifted.

This was one of her self portraits..yeah, a selfie.

Umm, anyone else inspired-slash-convicted?!

~H. Elise

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