PaperShoot-ing again
With all the things happening (the COVID-19 pandemic, community quarantines, curfews, panic buying, general uncertainty about the future, etc.), I needed something to serve as a happy distraction. Hence this blog. It's been a while since I last took photos with my PaperShoot (Paper Shoot?) camera, which my youngest sister and her then-boyfriend (now husband) gave me for my birthday last year (thanks B&P!). I used to take a lot of film photos , but budget-friendly film is hard to come by these days and having rolls of film processed can also be quite expensive. I haven't touched any of my film cameras in several months. I'll shoot with them again someday, one of these days. Nowadays I take photos with my smartphone and post them on my Instagram , like millions of other folks. But I want this space to be different. I miss the excitement and delayed gratification I get from film photography, and while PaperShoot is a digital camera, the fact that you can'...