Diana

“We do not know which act of providence brought you here. But we can safely assume that you do not know what you’re in for. Taking a trip through the illustrious realms of Diana, Diana +, and Diana F+ is by no means an organized journey. You’ll find yourself alone and a bit confused - facing the most wild, exciting, dangerous, charming, sinful, and unforeseeable adventures and opportunities ahead of you. “

- Diana F+ (more true tales & short stories), Lomography, p. 6

The idea of lomography was introduced to me by a generous friend. She was into it for some years already and she just keep inspiring us with the beautiful outputs she had made with her Holga.

One day we passed by to this not so techie shop in one of the malls in Bahrain to see something they could offer to a window shopper. Then the set of cameras displayed in a shelve attract our attention, they were toy cameras. Then she introduced to us the word lomography (see doy+lomo for brief history) where in she purchased her Super sampler to give a mate to her Holga.

Suddenly I feel in love with the word “lomography” and decided to explore the possibilities of being one. All I need was a good partner (camera) and I’m ready to be one of the group called lomographers.

As we come back to pay some visit to the same shop, we were amazed to see the wide variety of toy cameras that just arrived for there display. and then I meet Diana. A week after I come back to the shop and bought my own handy lomo camera, she was a shiny one, Diana F+ (Chromiacs). Early next day I was set to feel the beauty of Diana F+ (with the help of Liza I was able to take some shots by borrowing her 35 mm film back and fish eye lens).

Here are what me and my Diana F+ experience in one of those fine sunny day in Bahrain.

How it begin?

I never knew that i would found a place for my love to analog cameras and vintage type of photos. I used to own a Nikon SLR during my college days and i do love the results that it gives me. Though it is quite expensive to run one film camera (due to films, processing fee and etc.) still the though of being back to basics in this advance world is far more exciting.

A true photographer is not measured by the type of camera he is using but by the emotion of the photos he had captured.

I never meant to despise the digital evolution of camera its just that a true fine arts photographer may never be identified with the flocks of so called hobbyist now a days.

But whatever the cause a great photographer who he may be will always stands out among the crowd.

Here are the samples of my college photographs using Nikon SLR and a telephoto lens.