that time when my dad was quite the photographer

Today I came across my Dad’s old SLR camera. He was quite the photographer when he was at my age.

Old cameras really fascinates me. When I look at these analog cameras I always have to think about how easy it is nowadays to take a good picture. You can take 50 pictures of the same object/person and then pick your favorite. With an analog camera you took one shot or maybe two and you couldn’t see the result until it was developed.

There are pro’s and con’s about all these things. Today it’s less expensive. You just print out the pictures you really want to have as a physically thing. When my Dad was young he took a lots of pictures too, because it was his hobby, but first he had to pay for the film and then he had to pay to get them developed. I would say that photography was an expensive hobby (it still is if you think about all the lenses and stuff)

When I found his camera I also found a small box with some of his pictures. I looked at all of them and I couldn’t believe how good some of his photos were. My Dad really was talented. It’s so sad that he gave up photography.

I found three more boxes of my Dad's photos in my brother's room (he's into photography as well...) and I went through all the pictures.

Some of them were amazing, some of them weren’t that good, some of them were funny.

I showed some of them my Mom and we had to laugh a lot. About all the hairstyles my Mom had when she was young (she had a different haircut at almost every picture), about my Dad’s mustache and all the funny pictures when they were young. It turned out that the funniest pictures where those of their wedding. I honestly couldn’t stop laughing (a result of my Mom’s comments to the pictures…hilarious).

After seeing all these pictures. The captured moments. The colors. Black and white. Faded colors. The different formats of the pictures. All these things that fascinates me about analog photography makes me want to get into it as well.

I’d love to learn more about photography. Not digital photography. I like it as well, but it’s not something I’d love to do as a hobby. But analog photography…I want to give it a try.

So I hope to get a chance to get my hands on my Dad’s camera. I want him to tell me about all the fancy stuff he once bought for his camera and how to use it. I want to read books about it and I want to go out and capture the world.

Maybe I’ll fail at it. And I know that I don’t have the money for many films. But I don’t like it, that there’s an unused treasure hidden in our house…

Note #01: All the pictures you can see in the pictures are taken by my Dad about 30 years ago...don't steal them...thanks. :)


Note #02: Don't forget to watch yesterday's vlog :)

Disco clothes or clown costume?

My Mom searched through the attic today and found some of her old clothes. First she found an oversized white t-shirt with a Mickey Mouse print. It's cute and I would definitely wear it at home or in bed.
My Mom told me that she loved this t-shirt when she was around 20. It was something really special, because not many people had such a cool shirt. She bought it in a little boutique. That's where you got Mickey Mouse shirts 30 years ago. ;)
Today she smiled and said proudly "I wore this t-shirt at the disco."
I was like "You're kidding?!"
No, she wasn't. She was absolutely serious.
My Mom continued searching and found another piece. A vest she sewed by herself. Here it is:

 

(sorry, bad webcam quality :/ )

Guess what?
Mom: "I wore this at the disco."
I couldn't stop laughing. So funny!
Who would wear a Mickey Mouse shirt and a turquoise vest at the disco?
Nobody.
Also disco was a lot different when my Mom was 20-25 years old. I'm always surprised how different everything was 30 years ago.
Nowadays disco is just drinking alcohol and awful loud music. My Mom went to the disco to talk (is talking even possible in today's discos with super loud music?) and dance (cool dancing) and my Mom doesn't even drink alcohol!
It's sad that it changed so much.

Also my Mom talks a lot about dresses, skirts and other things she sewed when she was young. It was less expensive when she was young. People sewed their own clothes because they couldn't effort to buy everything at a store. It was something special to buy a dress at the store.
And today? It's much cheaper to go to a store and buy everything you want than sewing your own clothes.
I would LOVE to learn to sew my own dresses and skirts, but it is super expensive.
I don't know how it is in the US, but here in Austria fabric is really expensive. I don't have enough money to sew my own clothes. That's so sad :(

While writing this post I remembered that I've already worn my Mom's vest once years ago. Not to go to the disco. No. To dress up like a clown for the clown party in kindergarten :D

All Saints' Day

I feel like I have to post pictures. I have so many pictures I want to share. Here are some of today. Today is All Saints' Day. We spent this day at my grandparents house and it was a lovely day, but way too warm for the first of november.
All Saints' Day has always been one of my favourite days during the year. One of the first days to wear a warm winter jacket and gloves. A day where you go to the cemetery and light candles for your dead relatives, trying not to slip because of all the wet leaves. A day to ask my parents who all these people were. One of the first days to eat chestnuts. A day full of fog...
Oh, I feel like an old woman talking about her childhood. ;)
Here are some pics. I took all pictures at my grandparents' house (except the last one). Enjoy!
And sorry for the bad quality. It's impossible to take good pictures with my camera when the light is bad :(

I love my grandparents' house, because you can find stuff I made in kindergarten everywhere ;)

A calendar we made for my grandparents years ago. My grandma still use it.

That's me by the way :)

 my Mum helped to wash the dishes

 on the way home. 

Day 03 - my family.

   

A post about my family.

I spent hours thinking about what I want to tell you about my family and I still don't know an answer.
I'm sure my parents and my brothers wouldn't appreciate it when I tell you too much about them or post pictures of them. So sorry, no pictures. I posted one picture of my brothers over a year ago and I think I can re-post it, because their faces are covered by cameras ;)

 

 

 :D

Honestly, I don't want to write to much about my family. 
I love my brothers! And I love my parents! 
That is the most important thing.
And that is the only thing you have to know. :)

Have a wonderful start to the week. Tomorrow is my first day at university and I'm super excited!!!

Only Pictures in May - Days 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 - Chocolate Factory

At the 2nd of May I told you that I'll post every day in May. Well, it was predictable, that it won't go well. But I have an excuse for not posting this week: Final exams!
I had my last written exam today and now I'm FREE! .... for 4 weeks :P
The next two weeks I want to relax a bit and do some stuff I havn't done for weeks.
Today, we went to a chocolate factory. Yummie! It was the third time that we went there and it is always great fun to see how they produce the chocolate and you can eat chocolate all the time.
You can check out the homepage here: Zotter Schokolademanufaktur
Their chocolate is all organic and fair.
The best thing about Zotter-chocolate are the ingredients. Sure, there is "normal" chocolate, but they have special flavours like ketchup, cheese, chili, rice,...
Here are some pics I took there:

They look so tasty!

Chocolate balls in a small mixing machine.

The room with the chocolate-ball-mixing-machines. Look at the top. Hundreds of Origami cranes! Wow!

I love this chocolate factory. They are presenting there chocolate in many different ways. This one is really cool. Here we got a glass of milk and there was a mini cable railway transporting small packages of drinking chocolate. The coolest thing I've ever seen! ;)

The last stop of the factory. It's called "running chocolate"

That's it! I hope you all have a nice start to the weekend. Enjoy it!
And here's a last picture of my day.

My brother took it with my camera out of the car at the way home. I forced him to take it :P I love this castle.