Film photos: Extras

If you're on this page, chances are, you were linked from Facebook. And that's okay! Because here's a special blog post.

Yesterday, I held out about 5 rolls of film out in my hand, shuffled them around, and asked Josh to pick a random roll. Now, these rolls were taken months apart. I don't really remember what are on most of them, except for maybe the latest.

I don't order prints when I get these things developed. It's just too much money. Ordering just a CD is $10, and I don't have the kind of cash to get everything developed at once. I think the novelty of developing every once in a while and looking forward to whatever might be on that roll is worth the wait.

I uploaded the good ones my favorites to facebook for everyone to see, but there are a few I kept back for different reasons. A little part of me still wants to share them, so without further ado, here are the extras:

Strange. I saw the water droplets and couldn't help but to want to snap a picture.

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Boring, but I like the light source.

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I couldn't remember what this was from until I figured out that
I took this last minute before riding Spaceship Earth at Epcot. 

And there you have it. I can't wait to surrender even more of my money to the drug store down the street to see what other photos I've been taking this year!

Ithaka - An inspiring poem by CP Cavafy

As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope the voyage is a long one.
May there be many a summer morning when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbors seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean. 

Translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard

(C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Edited by George Savidis. Revised Edition. Princeton University Press, 1992)