Chicago On Film, Photo Dump #2

As I said many times already in my previous entries, the beach has been my favorite place to go to during this vacation. We've been to three different beaches this year. The water was crystal clear as you can see.

 I had been meaning to do that again for such a long time! In 2002, my family and I went to Turkey and we had this underwater disposable camera. We used it in the pool, it was so much fun!
I wanted one for our mornings at the beach and, I still can't believe I did, but found one in Wicker Park. So we took these gems with Greg, and many more. These are the best. I'm happy a bunch turned out OK. I was so sure they were all going to be unrecognisable shapes but no, they're OK. :)

And I said repeatedly, I had been wanting to go to this place for quite some time. I took a few pictures of the concert o, film as well! What an awesome night! Beer, Blues... We even met a french guy there. And we bought a bunch of souvenirs from my family and us, a couple of shirt, a CD and a poster... I'm glad I got out of my comfort zone for once and did this. I'm not a big fan of crowds and my ears have become very sensitive to loud sounds. Oh well, I drank a few beers, rolled up my napkin in little balls I put in my ears and I was fine. :) Drunk and fine!

Making dinner at the appartment. A fond memory as well.

I tried my hand a tiny bit at self portraits. Really tiny bit, I took three pictures of myself.

I've been reading and reading again this blog by Marguerite Gisele and it is so inspiring! Her pictures are breath taking, she is gorgeous and her work is so inspiring! I love how she captures the beauty of every day things in her pictures. I really LOVE her blog.

I'm not thrilled with my self portraits but at least I tried and they turned out OK. I can't stand my face on them but at least they are not blurry. :p  (not TOO blurry)

 Another new thing I tried with my camera is the telephoto lens the Mom of a friend gave to me. I don't have many occasion to use it so it brought it one day we went to the Lincoln Zoo and took a whole roll with it. Once again it did not turned out as bad as I thought it would. Well most of them are pretty bad still, that's why I'm only putting a very few here. :p

 How pretty are these?? No wonder I got one of these as a tattoo. They mesmerize me!

I'm glad I got this one right, even though there is this pole in the middle of the picture looking awful. But at least I got a rather clear gorilla.

That's it with Chicago now. 2014 has been a great year trip-to-the-USA-wise for me. I've been to New York in May and Chicago in September. For once I don't feel antsy to go back! *sigh of relief*

But I know I'm going to be happy when I do. :)

New York On Film - Time Square, Soho, Chelsea, Chinatown, Central Park

I finally got the rest of the pictures from my trip to New York back. I'm still thrilled that I got to take them on film, and my film camera will be with me in Chicago next September for sure!!

This sign was right by Penn Station where I would arrive in New York every morning from Edison, New Jersey.

These were the flowers on my way from the hotel to Edison train station. They were gorgeous.

This is Soho.

I realize I don't have much to say about my pictures. :p

This was at the Chelsea market. We ate that lobster. I've never liked lobster that much, the thing I like best about it was the mayonnaise until this day! It was delicious! I'm a big fan of seafood. It was heavenly.

This is from my mom and I's walk in Central Park. And what is a walk in Central Park without a Spongebob popsicle?

I already wrote a bit about this statue in a previous entry. It was in the movie Enchanted. I was elated to finally see it in person.

Time Square

Chinatown

I'll always remember this trip to New York because of this moment. I got to meet these two beautiful ladies. Kathleen and her mom. I've known Kathleen for 7 years. But I had never met her in person till this day. We met through Flickr seven years ago when we were both collecting and taking pictures of our Blythe dolls. We kept in touch since. I watched her 'grow up', getting married and having a kid. I could call her a friend even if we never actually met. Well, that is done now, we met, and now I can say she's a very important friend to me. She's exactly what I thought she would be. She's an awesome person (her Mom as well!! ) and I'm so glad I finally met her, I'm so grateful I have her in my life. This moment, meeting her and her Mom, this was one of the most important moment in years.

New York On Film - High Line, Meat Packing District, Brooklyn, Chinatown

Exactly a month ago today, I was in New York. I brought my film camera with me since my reflex was at the repair shop. Today I got back two of the rolls on paper. I'm going to get all of the seven rolls little by little because it's expensive!!! :p 

I'm glad I took those pictures on film. It had been a while since I used this camera. I have to say I'm pretty disapointed with how they turned out on paper. They're not as clear as they used to be. Now it seems that they digitalize them for printing.

The first roll I got back today was from our walk, my mom and I's, on the High Line. I took a complete roll of pictures there! I loved it!

This is the Meat Packing District. I saw the best street art there!

Nice, right?

This building was in Chelsea I think. It was a building all covered in metal. It doesn't show very well on the picture. But I'm glad I got it because it was the end of the roll and I was pretty sure I missed it.

This is the second roll from Brooklyn this time.

We got to Brooklyn by the subway and we decided to walk by the Brooklyn bridge to go back to Manhattan. But we messed up and ended up taking the Manhattan bridge, which was actually great because we got to see the Brooklyn bridge! 

By the end of the bridge there were these rooftops on the streets next to us. Seeing these pictures makes feel so happy! I really want to take more pictures on film. It's such a fun process.

This is the last picture of the roll. The bridge ends in Chinatown. Too bad the picture's cut. Maybe I got it right on the next roll when I loaded up.

Now I cannot wait to get the rest of the pictures back! I'm happy the New York pictures didn't turn out all messed up. I felt so insecure loading up my camera. I don't why I've done that tons of times before. But I was afraid all the pictures would be all black or all white because I didn't put the film correctly or the camera was broken. Oh well, they turned out okay. :p