Hi, my name’s Heather and I adore instant film photography!
My very first camera was a chunky grey Polaroid Spectra. You can see it pictured below alongside yours truly. 🙂
Taken circa 1999 at a friend’s pool party. I spent most of my time taking photos rather than swimming!
I used it to document six months of my teenage life from my 14th birthday party to my family vacation in England and France.
To this day, the 100 shots I took with that camera are still the ones that mean the most to me. It’s surprising considering that I took hundreds of pictures with single-use film cameras around the same time, and tens of thousands with various digital cameras later on.
This year, following nearly a decade of strictly digital photography, I decided to return to instant film once more by purchasing a Fujifilm Instax Mini 9.
Is the magic still there?
Absolutely.
This blog is all about my adventures in film photography. For now, I’ll only be talking about the Instax series but I hope to expand to other brands as well!
– Heather 🙂