Two Sundays ago, Mallory and I did some photos in her apartment. I knew I had an amazingly stellar camera, which was on loan from a friend. I knew Mallory had a pretty dress, which she had known was “just the one” when I mentioned we should get together to play with the camera I’d borrowed. What I didn’t know is that playing dress-up on that rainy Sunday afternoon would produce such beautiful images. I think Mallory, a Contax 645, and I make a pretty good team.
I love photographing store window displays. I also have a major “thing” for the creativity and whimsy used in creating the window displays year round (not just at Christmas!) at Flashback on Central. In December, I was testing out a camera which a friend had sent me around that time, the Canon Canonet GIII QL 17 (a compact rangefinder camera -I will write a full review of it on here soon.) I had delighted in doing test shooting of Flashback with my Lomo the Christmas prior, so thought I might take the Canonet for a whirl there, too.
I was very happy with the results! It’s nice living in a neighborhood with so many photo-worthy spots nearby, because it seems I always have some piece of photo equipment or another that I need to test!
I have a few bluebird knick-knacks in my collection of home furnishings. The one pictured above is a coin bank. I call it my “Bluebird of happiness” bank. It’s a bit confusing, gender-wise, because it sports both a brown bow-tie around its neck, and pink flowers on it’s head. But that is inconsequential to me. All I know is that, to me, this is a bluebird of happiness. I got this idea of dubbing objects as “the bluebird of happiness” in my head as a little girl, when I watched a Shirley Temple movie entitled “The Blue Bird.” Ever since then, that’s what I think of when I see an actual bluebird or things such as my bluebird chotskies: happiness. That’s the reason why I like to have a few bluebird things around to look at from time to time.
[I originally took this photo for The “Amanda Loves” Project, and to test a new accessory for my camera that had been sent to me by a friend. My bluebird coin bank is sort of my “go-to” still life subject when I need to try out a new piece of camera equipment or film. It never disappoints.]
[equipment: Yashica D TLR + close-up filter)
