Summertime Sadness: Colombia Trip

I am 8 weeks into my fall semester of my junior year (yikes). I miss summer, sort of. I miss the summer I spent with family in Colombia. I forgot to upload the photographs on here since moving into a new apartment and starting school took much of my time. Here are my favorite (out of a 1000) shots I took in Colombia. It was very stressful traveling with my DSLR (my camera bag was too big to put in luggage) but very rewarding in result.

Senior Portraits | Marisol

As my own graduating gift, I decided to take my cousins portraits for her senior year. I'm a bit rusty behind the camera and with composition. Overall the lighting and the model made the photos come alive and I'm very grateful for that. 

Voigtlander Film Roll

A friend of mine gifted me this camera when he found it at a local goodwill. I was surprised that it was in good condition for its age (the camera came out in 1962). While the shutter and apertures seem to work fine, the focus in the viewfinder didn't seem to work. To really make it work, you would have to judge distances and the closest it goes is about 4 ft. Nonetheless, I experimented with expired film that I ordered on ebay months ago. Some came out good, others not so much. The light leak in the last images is a result from when I was trying to figure out how to wind up the roll.

Birthday Self-Portrait

Had an impromptu self-portrait session for my birthday. It's been a long time since I've taken pictures in my backyard and I'd say the landscape has definitely changed a lot. I did like lighting but I wish the Florida weather would cooperate with my hair.