what is UP, originally uploaded by jon….

oh goodness!

so about last year, i shot what i thought was my last roll with this doggone lomo lc-a (basically i was nervous while shooting because of the massive physical damage this camera has). it came out horribly (if not artistically:), with streaks, and leaks, etc.

i wasn’t sure if it was the film or the camera…i lent this joint to my boy TJ…who never once used it the whole time, and i moved on to my voigtlander…well…

while in baltimore my voigtlander’s winder just got stuck. just like that. wouldn’t move. so i sent it back to Mr. G. (it’s still under warranty) for repair. i had two photo shoots coming up (senior pix–they’re coming up in my stream!) and one of our nikon lenses is busted; i was hoping to get baby V back in time for some film shots…hadn’t heard anything from Mr G. so i wrote to find out what’s up…i got an autoreply saying that dude is out in japan until october 9th! CRAP!

so on a whim, i got my lomo back from TJ, and shot 2 rolls (in addition to a roll in the nikon N70, and then some D70 shots–the insurance joints! :) and hoped for the best.

turns out, although my lomo’s missing a winder, and the top part is just wrecked to bits, holes everywhere…and a piece came out of the viewfinder that i have no idea where it’s supposed to go…BUT apparently where it counts…where the film rolls through and exposures are made–are completely, perfectly intact! the lomo was NOT dead–it was apparently a bum roll of film all along!

crud. i went the entire summer without my baby..although admittedly baby V gave me a good run, and will continue to do so, for those times where i *have* to be spot on with focus, and that kind of thing ;-)

all this to say…it’s time to lomo again. i’m 100 pix behind in the lomo pool so time to get caught up, jo.