Photography Filled Break

By: Paige Kleinfelder '14


Over break I finally bought a new digital camera and I couldn’t wait to start taking pictures. As my family drove over snow-covered roads to the eco lodge at Bald Eagle State Park to spend New Year’s Eve, I was hoping for more snow covered hills and a frozen lake but as we got closer there was less and less snow. When we arrived, the lake was frozen, but there was no snow. None. This meant no snowboarding, no sledding, no photograph of snow covered hills. Even without the snow I found a subject to take a picture of, a large willow tree on the edge of the lake.


For Christmas I received the Lomography Fisheye 2 camera and have been taking pictures with it since I opened it. I got a lot of strange but very interested looks because of the camera. It is bright pink with silver trim and an oddly shaped lens and viewfinder. (It looks more like something Fisher-Price made for one of my young cousins than something a college student should be carrying).


Saturday I finished the roll of film and took it to be developed so that I could finally share some of my pictures here on the blog. The problem is, out of a roll of 24 images, only four of them showed up on the negative and those prints didn’t turn out well. However, I decided to still share one of the photos on my blog. This is a picture of Meier Hall that I took to test the camera:


I am learning that photography, like many art forms, is an endless mix of skill, practice, trial and error and chance, but I will keep snapping photos and trying to get the perfect shot.