Home, Rotterdam, Home and Photography

So I came back home from Aberystwyth on the 4th April. I apparently now have a sofa in my room, and there’s another one downstairs… This is new. But anyway, I must digress! Kate is into photography quite a bit, as is another good friend of mine, Steffy. So I decided that I’d jump on the bandwagon and get snapping! Admittedly with a film SLR which they started manufacturing in around… 1975 – the Olympus OM-2n. The camera works well, and I found it with a 50mm f/1.8 lens…

So, off to Rotterdam I went! Steffy and RhiRhi almost didn’t make it, because Steffy bought the tickets for the wrong month… But we all made it over in the end, they just had to get a different ferry home, which was fine. Steffy enjoyed eyeing up my Olympus OM-2n, and he brought along some film for me to use in it. So I started taking a couple of photos on the ferry, and decided to save the rest of my film for Rotterdam.

Rotterdam itself was good fun! We stayed at a 5-star hotel: I was with Kate, RhiRhi and Steffy had a room, and fragalot and slightlymad had a room too. Service was excellent We went to the zoo on the second day, and I took plenty of photos there, some of which I deemed Flickr-worthy, and uploaded on there. Some… weren’t so good, but overall, I’m quite pleased! I really, really enjoyed the stay, especially spending time with Kate. I think a good time was had by all

Just before I went to Rotterdam, I went on eBay and purchased a 35mm f/2.8 lens to play around with. Steffy reckons I’ve got an eye for architecture, and that I’m quite good at portraits, so I’ll probably be focusing mostly on those two genres. I got my hands on the 35mm last night, but am out of film… I’ll probably buy a roll later today, and take some photos in Aldeburgh later on. I have 5-odd rolls of film being delivered on Monday, some colour, some B&W, all of varying speed. So I’ll be able to experiment with different ISO speeds, different exposure times, and different aperture sizes… should be fun! I do however, make no promises as to the quality of my photos…