Minolta X-500

Yesterday I got back the pictures from a couple of test rolls I shot with two cameras I bought off ebay. These pictures were taken with the Minolta X-500.

'It does not have anything to do with anything'

I took the camera for a test at the Père Lachaise cemetary a fews weeks ago and here is the result. I'm not thrilled, the pictures are only ok. But it's my fault as well, not only the camera's, because I shot pretty much anything in order to get the pictures developped fast to see if the camera was working.

The Minolta was very easy and nice to use.That's always nice but I find the colors pretty bland though.

I love the style of these huge paper stickers you can find all over Paris and I finally found out who was the artist behind them: Fred Lechevalier.

All of these street art pieces are right down our place.

Looks like I'm squinting... Don't like my face for sure on this picture...

(picture taken by Greg)

About a week ago we went out for beers at Greg's favorite bar. It reminded me of last October, we just got back from the airport after our trip to Chicago, we were completely jet-lagged and confused, we came there for a beer in the middle of the day. Vacation was over we had to go back to our regular life but with a lot of new plans and motivation because our trip had be so inspirationnal and just what we needed to clear our heads and come back stronger than ever job-wise.

I can't wait for the next trip because I'm running out of turbo right now.

Kitties + Cameras

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This is what I've been doing all day... Kitties! Two are already sold, yay!

I've been waiting on a few packages from around the world. I ordered two cameras from eBay and I won a giveaway a month ago, I'm waiting for a beautiful art doll. Unfortunately the doll is stuck somewhere because my address couldn't be located... Wait, what?? Anyway, I'll go to the post office tomorrow to see if it's there. Not such a good mail week.

It took 2 weeks to the first camera I ordered to get to me, even though it was coming from France. The guy took his sweet time and in the end I can't open the battery compartment and the camera is not operational of course... It sucks because it seems like such a nice camera. Here it is:

It's a Minolta X-500.  I really hope I'll find a way to fix the problem.

And here is my little ray of sunshine coming from the UK in less than a week, with the sturdiest of packages, bubble wrap and all! 

I put a roll in it and started shooting. It's not the easiest of cameras to use but I'm very happy with my purchase. I hope I didn't mess up the pictures too bad and used the settings right. I'm really not sure I did.

As soon as I can I'll take a walk around Paris and shoot!

I'll now g back to my glass of wine...