Instant Daily

Analogue cameras have been more appealing to me than digital cameras for a few years now. Film cameras allow for a whole range of desired and undesired effects (multiple exposures, panorama images, light leaks, cross processing etc.) Also there is something alot more exciting about the whole process of taking a film to be developed compared to seeing your image instantly appear on a screen. However, instant cameras incorporate the beauty of analogue film with near enough the speed of a digital picture. There is definately something special about seeing an image develop infront of your eyes in a matter of seconds.

The most commonly known instant camera seems to be the Polariod. Due to Polaroid film not being in production when my purchase was made, I opted for a Fuji Instax 210 to save on costs. This uses the Fuji Instax Wide Format film. It's quite a bulky camera but was more appealing to me than the Fuji Instax Mini range as the prints the mini cameras produce are credit card size (a tad too small for my liking).

This beaut is currently the only instant camera in my hands, the images you will be seeing will all be from this. You can find all the specs here if you want to check the features out.

So, the goal is to (try to) post an instax shot up here everyday that I have taken on that day. I might throw in some oldies every so often to talk about something amazing. I don't own a portable scanner (do such things exist?) so sometimes days will have to roll over. I'm sure you can deal with that. 

These will be my picture from my camera of something that I find interesting, not just someone elses work that I'm fond of like alot of blogspots/tumbr's that are floating around.  This will be accompanied by some sort of description as to why I found the subject of the image interesting. 

The idea is that this will encourage me to capture something of interest at least once a day and this blog will provide a place to document this. None of these images will appear on my Facebook/Flickr so you won't see them in two places (how terrible that would be).

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Today I went for a walk by the quayside in Newcastle. You don't want to hear about that though. I took this picture of the Sage (over the river, in Gateshead). Look at it. What a bloody lovely building.

The Sage has got some nice looking gigs. I've got tickets to see Belle and Sebastian and Mogwai there in the coming months. I'm already very excited.


There are two main music venues in the Sage. Halls One and Two. I saw Joan Baez play in Hall One (1600 capacity) and Daniel Johnston supported by Laura Marling in Hall Two. This second hall has ten sides. THAT'S A ROOM WITH TEN SIDES. Have a look around you now and then think about that. Both rooms are very different. The first is all seating with lots of wood, it reminds me of the Royal Festival Hall in London. The second is smaller, darker and more circular. Both rooms have amazing sound, you can tell they are purposefully built for live music.

Both of these gigs have a place in my heart. I attended the first with my Dad*. He's pretty much the biggest Bob Dylan fan I know.  So it was only natural that we went to see Dylan's back-in-the-day sweetheart perform live. The second gig was also with my Dad. We went mainly to see Laura Marling play her support slot but the show nicely introduced me to Daniel Johnston. He is quite an interesting character. Apparently his rider includes a tour  of comic book stores. I bought one of his t-shirts, then coloured it in because it was a bit boring.

* hanging out with your Dad may not sound like your idea of fun but mine is class. he likes class music.