a dreary / day / of discovery

it was terribly rainy day when we visited changdeokgung, one of the great palaces of korea. we were especially looking forward to visiting the famous biwon (or secret garden). you could imagine our disappointment when we woke up to rain and when we got there too late to join the english or the mandarin tour. you can only enter the secret garden with a guided tour. oh and it wasn't easy to juggle an umbrella and a camera too.

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to combat all these dreariness, i have a few new links for day of discovery today! they all centre around the theme of handmade. hope you like them, and pass me more if you have some too!

chocolate cake in a mug via tonadoes and tigers

painterly party cups via design sponge

page corner bookmarks via curating cuteness

Holga 135BC 10: Grad Trippin' in South Korea

Hurrah! It's the weekend! :)) What's everybody's plans?

I am going to have a girly lunch tomorrow, and after lunch, we are going to head out en masse to the Ben & Jerry's ChunkFest! ICE CREEAAMM!



I am falling miserably in uploading all my rolls! So get ready for quite a few entries this weekend because I  am going to target uploading to my 15th roll! Best to aim high, right?



Camera: Holga 135BC

Film: Agfa HDC Plus

This is a rather odd film, no? I ran out of the rolls that I brought to Korea midway through the trip. Silly me thought that I would need two days to finish a roll. Luckily in Busan, I noticed this little, obscure camera shop. I went in and found a treasure trove of old, expired films! I bought this Agfa, a Konica Centuria and some Kodak slide films. The owner was so odd, she kept trying to dissuade me from buying the films. I would have thought she would have been happy to find a buyer for all her old stuff. But anyway, I really like this film because it's like the opposite of slide films. Soft, pale colours that gives the images a very dream-like quality. I have only one more roll for this film. Going to preserve it for a special occasion!

I changed my film midway through my visit to Gyeongbokgung and then used it all way through our afternoon at the Han River. I love all the shots at the river, it was a slightly colder and hazier day and this film made the haze into a beautiful, dreamy mist.