Ghost Town
It's a rare occasion that I will share my thoughts in a realm like blogger, or any real social media as I am pretty self conscious about image and not being perceived as this or that by people I don't personally know. People that are close to me will know that it has been a very long time since I have picked up a camera and taken photos, especially if they have known me for a while and known how much I really loved it.
The past year or so I found that every time I would pick up a camera for the purpose of taking a set of photos, it was amateur hour, forced and not the kind of photos that I really wanted to be doing, which was partly my fault. I found that all I was really doing was taking glorified Facebook photos for people who wanted to look good on social media, and I was going nowhere. It put me off.
In light of all this, I have put my expensive equipment away and found a passion for film again. Not in that wanky "I only use analogue because im sa indie man" but because of the skill and time it takes to get a actual good film shot. I have found that the photos that are catching my eye at the moment are the ones that are slightly...off. Not properly framed. Over exposed. Gritty. Confused. Not "pretty". In light of that, I took some photos on my Yashica that are exactly that.
Lennox Heads (NSW) is a ghost town in winter.
