i’ve officially been bitten by the (film) photography bug. my cousin alicia kills it when it comes to the camera and she has since i was young. one of my favorite memories is when she invited me to go with her to ritz camera to pick up some photos from her trip to europe (this is going back about 10 years, and she was still a little older than i am currently). it sounds so incredibly lame but i get turned on by the most boring of activities.

anyways, to make a long story short, my 18th birthday present was a yashica t4 camera that sha recommended to me since i was looking to get into film. lo and behold, i go to turn on the camera and it’s sucking the juice out of the battery the way a boring lecture class sucks the life out of you. that’d be awesome and very easy to repair if, say, the company was still around. this guy named mark hama has had it since october and finally found the part the camera needs to stop killing the battery. it is en route to him but i was at goodwill the other day when a kodak advantix t 550 was on sale for $7.00 and i took the chance and bought it while i wait for my yashica. the yashica is definitely a nicer camera (and the film is way cheaper) but this will do. between today and yesterday i took some test shots. they’re mostly of my cat since i have no friends (lol, jk sorta) but i will get more! PROMISE