189 Instax Photographs

Earlier today I started to wonder how many Instax photos I had ever taken. I received my Instax Mini 7s from my wonderful friends for my 16th Birthday (October 2012) and have been snapping at every opportunity ever since! :)

I decided to count the photos by counting an album and then writing the number now, to avoid any mistakes e.g.There are 72 photo slots in each album not including the cover space so that was a good way to keep track (I also have a half filled album). After counting each of the albums, including the only photo I don't have in my possession, a group photo of my friends and I with Franca from Germany   an exchange student who was staying with one of my other friends. At the end of our day out I gave the photo to her. This broke my heart but I knew she would take care of it. I am a little  really obsessive over keeping my photos so funnily that was quite a big deal for me, but I am very happy with my decision!

well that was off topic….

Anyways after counting all the photos 3 times over I realised I was missing one. As most of you will know instax films come in packs of 10, so this didn't add up. So, I freaked out and after about 2 hours of recounting and thinking back I remembered when I thought there were only 9 films in a pack. I am probably wrong but either that happened or I lost one along the way (which I highly doubt).

Either way I have decided to carry on as if I have taken 190 Instax photographs. It will be a lot more fun to celebrate my 200th photo rather than my maybe 200th maybe 199th photograph.

Well, thats my story, I hope you have enjoyed my little panic! Please don't be afraid to leave a comment below if something similar has ever happened to you, I am still looking for answers!

Lots of love, AnnaMae <3

This photo is actually one of the first Instax I ever took and it has always been one of my favourites
so I thought I would share it with you :)

Cath Kidson Instax Mini film

I have another film to share with you! :D 

This is another one of the films I received for my birthday this year. It's the Cath Kidson Mint Instax Mini Film, and I love it! As you can see from the picture the colours are super vibrant. I didn't think I would like the ribbon effect on the top (cut off on the first row of scanned images) but it is much nicer than I had expected. I think I would also like to try this film in the yellow version, just because the colours are so much more vibrant than I had expected.

Although these look like a bunch of random photos they actually do have some order and were actually taken in the space of a weekend! The first four are from the craft fair I was selling at (I'll have a post about that in the near future). The next one was from our schools production of "Cats"(I'm in orange and red). And the last five are from a sleepover and dinner we had as a celebration after our last performance.

I hope you enjoyed this post and I will have one on the Instax Mini Christmas film just after Christmas!

Rilakkuma meets Honey Instax Mini film

So this post is wayyy.. overdue. Most of these photos were taken around my birthday weekend, and if you have seen my previous post was around the 3rd of October…and now it's December.

Anyways, I really enjoyed this film, it was my first "fun" or not-plain film. When I took my first photo I was pleasantly surprised to see that parts of it were metallic! Most of the hearts, dots, stripes and honeycomb patterns are a shiny gold, which I love! I would love to try Rilakkuma print film again just for the pure cuteness of it!

The only sad thing is that they some of them didn't turn out very well and again, I had trouble scanning them in (the top cut off and a faint white line running through). Also the gold didn't show up very well but, I think you get the idea.

I have some more "fun" film reviews on the way so make sure to check back soon!

AnnaMae <3 

What to do with terrible Instax photos ☹

So I gave in..... I used my Instax, but now I regret it.

I couldn't stand not taking photos so very stupidly I decided to take photos of some flowers. Yes, flowers. And sadly the first 3 turned out crap, this happens a LOT to me, I get a craving to use the camera and then take a handful of duds. If anyone else uses on of these cameras you will know how expensive and hard to get film is....

The Solution? Washi Tape!

Washi tape has a particular way of making even the worst photos look a little cuter. At least now when I look through my album I won't be too mad and it was a good opportunity to try out some of my new tapes and at least now I know not to photograph flowers....

Instax withdrawal ☹

All summer I have been happy snapping with my Instax mini 7s. Without school and dance I have had a LOT of time on my hands, I have now finished my first album and am almost halfway into my second one! You can see more on these in an older post here. But, since I have come back from my dance intensive "Shawbrook Summer School" where I used my rainbow film, which you can see here I have had nothing to photograph! Given that the film is so expensive I'm not exactly going to go out and take photos of some flowers! My best friend in the whole world and fellow Lomographer Sarah has been away at another intensive, so even my photo buddy isn't here! I am dreaming of hearing that printing buzz again! Hopefully I will get some shots next week when she returns and with our other bunhead buddy Elizabeth before I head off to The Dublin Cheer Experience on Wednesday :D Which I will post more about next week!
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Rainbow Instax Mini film Review

For christmas this year I received a pack of Instax Mini Rainbow film. I have been waiting for the right opportunity to use it, so when I went to Shawbrook residential dance summer school I thought it would be perfect and we could all have fun using them!

I loved the overall look of the film and it added even more fun to my Instax, the only disadvantage that I saw was that when I put them in chronological order they didn't match up. That was a real downside because I store all of my photos in my album and it looked a bit off.

I would definitely think of buying more rainbow film or at least trying some of the other fun options, but I thought it went perfectly with the event I was photographing and really completed the photos :)

In order of when taken:

In colour order:

New Instax mini album and fun film

Woo Hoo! My new instax mini stuff arrived this week! I bought a 2NUL mini size polaroid album in yellow, a double pack of plain film, a single( 10 shots ) of Rainbow film and a single of Rilakkuma meets honey film. So far I have only been using plain film so I am super excited to try out the adorable cartoon ones! I will post more on the Rilakkuma film once I use it.

This is my 2nd 2NUL album, I loved the first one (in blue) so much I decided to go with the same style for the 2nd one. They hold alot and look so cute and chubby when they are filled.

I will try to write more posts on Instax minis in the future!