Practice Tourist

I'm practicing being a tourist and I'm trying to be as inconspicous as I can which I would imagine would be hard to do. How subtle can one be when attempting to take souvenir pictures of themselves when traveling alone. So I practice. I pretend to be a tourist in my own city for a day. Here I am taking a walk along lakeshore drive. I figured out how the timer works in my camera. Well, sort of. Until I do, there will be a lot of pictures like the one above.

But check this out. Sometime later, the spiral things that protect the lens of my digital camera were stuck in a semi-open position creating the diagonal borders and a halo-like leak effect that is similar to those you would find in snapshots taken with a Holga camera. I like it. A lot.

In contrast, I took an actual Holga on my last trip to the Philippines and took great pains to compose pictures as we went to Banaue, Tagaytay, and Palawan.

I had such high hopes that I would find frame-worthy snapshots but on our last day the tape came off, the hinges came loose and exposed all my film, which goes to show I can plan and plan and plan and end up with a roll of nothing or I could deal with a fluke situation like my lenses getting stuck and take in the unexpected beauty of a not-so-ideal situation.