Over Freshers’ Week last week I took thousands of photos, mainly of drunken students. A few of the photos however stand out a little more, either because they turned out particularly well or because they are a little more random than average - The photo above is a good example, I’d met this bunch of freshers earlier in the week and they had offered to help me with straighten my hair.
Upon arriving at their flat though I found out there was a catch, although not exactly a big one - They wanted me to take a photo of them with their 6th housemate who never came out with them; Henry the Hoover. Naturally I obliged, especially after they told me how they had been cutting and pasting images of him over random people who jumped into photos I had taken of them.
It’s been a long week and there’s been a lot of music played. Some songs have been so ubiqitous that they fel like they’ve been played almost every night, but there have been plenty of songs that haven’t been played as often and it’s been great hearing songs that I haven’t heard for ages - This morning in the Baa Baas there seemed to be a Kenny Rogers medley play, but even that didn’t compare to earlier in the week when I was sat down editing photos and this came on the jukebox:
…For a week at least, luckily however Wales isn’t another country as I can’t find my passport at the moment.
I would say I am taking a holiday, as I do have a week off of work whilst I am there, but I will still be working. That is if you consider taking photos of drunk students work. I said last year that was going to be my last Freshers’ and I was wrong, so I won’t say that this year will be my last Freshers’ Week - Merely that it’s the 10th I will have attended.
I have added another new camera to my collection today after well over 100,000 photos and several years good service I have finally replaced my hard working and now slightly broken Fuji Finepix S5000. The replacement is also a Fuji Finepix and is an S2000HD.
I had it delivered to me at work and was taking photos with it almost as soon as I got out of the doors and this was the first of the photos I took on my way home and I have to admit it felt good to be wielding a proper camera once more. Annoyingly although there are a lot of similarities between my new and old camera (they are from the same series after all) there are enough buttons moved around for me to have to learn how to use the new camera - Even more annoyingly they’ve put the button that pops the flash up exactly where I put my thumb, so every time I take a photo I accidentally activate the flash.
Still one thing I like about the new camera is the memory card, even at the excessive rate I have been known to take photos at in the past I won’t have to worry about space as even at the highest quality settings I can take 5,000 photos before I will run out of space - My old limit used to be 327 before I had to download off the card and that never used to lastme more than a couple of hours.
When I woke up this morning, my body may have been functioning, but my mind was not. It took me twenty minutes to work out what was wrong as I was working to work this morning. The world looked blurry and even after that personal epiphany it still took me a few second longer to work out why - I didn’t have my glasses on.
There is a very simple reason why I wear glasses, my eyesight is crap. I may only have two eyes, but I manage to be both long and short-sighted, as well as astigmatic. That is not the reason however, I can cope with a blurry looking world for the most part and it does have some advantages, such as making some people appear more attractive than they actually are.
The reason I wear them is without them I suffer headaches, like the one I have had all day at work. Where to see the computer screen clearly I have almost had to have my nose touching the screen*. Even worse it has meant that I have not been able to spend my day at work as I normally do, reading books and browsing at articles online. It’s surprising how long 8 hours is when you try and spend most of it sat with your eyes closed, you may not be clock watching but it certainly seems to have the same effect.
*And that isn’t too much of an exaggeration unfortunately.
Who knows what the week has in store? I don’t. Sure, I know that 37.5 hours of mindless boredom will ensue at work, but that only accounts for just over a fifth of my week and as usual I probably won’t get enough sleep. That still leaves a lot of my week unaccounted for and yet by the end of the week I somehow won’t have had time to get everything done that I needed to accomplish.
It’s kind of like the films above, I know that they all date from several years ago and I suspect some were taken when i was still using a film camera in the bar at university, but I have n real idea what is on them. I rediscovered them today whilst reorganising things and now that they have come to light I really should get them developed.
Annoyingingly thogh my funds are limited at the moment, so whilst I have exposed the film to the light of day some of it is going to have to remain undeveloped a little longer. That said I will see what I can get developed this week just to see what photos I have taken and yet never seen.
I also found some unused film as well, so I reckon that makes it time to break my film cameras out of storage and see I can still use them with my eyes closed - Obviously though when I say with my eyes closed, I am speaking metaphorically. Taken photos with your eyes closed does limit the results your likely to get after all.
