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Okay, this is blog entry trial. You can only win, right? I am really trying here, I hope it’s obvious. Maybe I should force it a little and go by the rules of blogging.

Q. 1.Write down what ocurred last week.

A. Right. Last week. Ahm, at the beginning my office computer broke. We needed to turn it in to (I don’t know) some computer-fixing-company. Hope it’ll be back soon so I can dwell on that webdesign stuff again. I start missing it. Actually it’s more than that, it’s fun to me and challenging. I like challenges.

After that, last week I needed to make a tough decision I thought I could avoid. It turned out that it was finally good to do it. Though I didn’t feel so good after all, but I’m fine by now.

Third, I got my negatives from my Holga-shots in Cannes back. I only made them do the negatives for it’s cost me a fortune last time I got all pictures back, around 11 Euros. I can’t afford such an expensive hobby, so I made it affordable by ordering a special scanner for dias and negatives. Special about it is that my Holga-shots are processed in square middle format. Not all labs are doing it, additionally they don’t scan – so far as I can see scanning bigger images wouldn’t be such an effort to make, but… I’m just a customer. Actually I am thinking about my own processing lab, one day, if I have room for it. I will upload some more of my work on my VIRB-site, so please check it out and build your own opinion about it.

I recently read on the Internet about someone calling Lomography “a waste of time and money”. He referred to the filter function Photoshop provides that let’s you create the vignetting and so without owning a lomo cam. I confess I felt a little offended, but if this person decided to be unlomographic, so it be. I myself know what PS can do, but I’m not taking part in this “digital lomographic” discussion. Even if you can copy it, you never get to see the stunning looks of your friends when taking the Holga out, asking everyone to group for a shot. And the lots of questions afterwards, I like that. People should know about fading tecniques. It’s not only the results but also doing it, thinking about the motif, the lighting, experimenting around, clicking the releaser and finding yourself asking: that was it? THAT was a photo? It’s making you crazy not to know the results. That’s what attracts me most.

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