The Vivitar Ghost...

I've blogged before about the unexpected surprises that I've had from my Superheadz Slim and Wide... and now I know that this occurance has a name... the 'Vivitar Ghost!' isn't that cool!(Thanks Adam)

I think I've finally figured out what causes this as well... the wrist strap!

Though of course not directly, but without the wrist strap, I wouldn't carry this camera around the way that I do, it wouldn't swing around all the time whilst I'm carrying it and that wouldn't move the shutter just a little bit to expose the film with streaks...
It makes sense when you think about it.

The above photo was an experiment to see if swinging it around would actually cause this to happen and if anything I think the experiement went too well as I've managed to overexpose the frame rather than streak it... oops. But still, it's so exciting!

I think I'm going to have to experiment further and see what happens...

I love film!!!

Film burn...

Unexpected abstract art from my little Diana Mini :)

More unexpected surprises...

from my superheadz wide and slim yellow peace camera...


I still have no idea how these happen and why only with this camera but I loooove them, how gorgeous are the colours!

Perhaps it attracts ghosts??

I have no idea how this happened...

It looks like a double exposure - but it was taken with my superheadz yellow peace so that shouldn't be possible. You can just see Bolton Abbey underneath the swirls but I have no idea what the swirls actually are... this was the only photo on the film like it...

I love film!

An unexpected surprise...

Whilst venturing into my amazing box of cameras I was stunned to find that two of the cameras still had film in them!

Unfortunately one of the films must have been quite old as I tried to wind it on and it completely snapped. The other one however had a few random photos on it... but the film was so old that the negatives turned green once they were developed and most of the photos came out quite purple.

How cute are the rabbit and guinea pig! And how random is the last photo - I have no idea whats going on there.

I love the idea that my cameras were all loved and used before I got them - imagine the things that they would have taken photos of... perhaps one travelled the world?? Who knows...

I love Helga the Holga...

and she loves me...

Can you see the clusters of hearts on the left hand side? I nearly died when I saw them...

I have no idea why or how but I love her surprises!

p.s. This is the roof of a warehouse that we saw some bands in at Supersonic - I didn't think it was as dark as it actually was...

Little surprises...

Everytime I have got back a film from my Holga I have had little delightful surprises where photos have not turned out like I expected... I laughed when I got the packet back at the counter yesterday, as written on the front was:

The double exposures were meant to be there - but the 2 miss framed prints were not. Heres how they turned out...

The funny thing is if you take the one half of one and the other half of the other, it does make a complete photo - I love little holga surprises!!