Birthday in Berlin
Remember how I said that June was epic and really busy and sorry for not writing as much blah blah blah? Well, part of the reason behind that was that I went to Berlin by myself for my birthday (I mention the fact I went by myself purely to explain why all the pictures are of buildings and sites and the few ones of me are Myspace-style-camera-held-out-botchjobs). The picture above was taken at the East Side Gallery on my Lomo Smena 8M with normal 35mm film and was taken by a lovely Swedish girl called Kiki (you can see her blogpost about her stay in Berlin here) and I love that it got double exposed.
The gallery below is my first ever attempt using slide film (Fujichrome colour reversal I think) and I wasn’t entirely sure if I liked it at first because I think the snaps that come out of my Smena 8M aren’t as nice as the ones I get from my Lomo Cosmic but the more I look at them the more I like them. Let me know what you think actually. My favourite is the one from inside the Holocaust Memorial because it’s saturated red and it looks really ominous. I won’t name where all the places are as it might be fun to guess if you’ve ever been to Berlin. Anyhow, enjoy.
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