I had a mission the day before I left
Valparaiso for the Andes: to get five rolls of film developed. I’ll start with
this- ‘photo development’, ‘analog camera’ and ‘roll of film’ are not common
Spanish phrases, let alone phrases learnt during a two-week beginners course.
After walking the streets of Viña del mar
and Valpo, I finally found one- in the simplest of places, a mall! I pointed at
my film, said ‘uno hora?’ (one hour) with no confidence that the shop assistant
would understand what I wanted and to my pleasant surprise, she replied with a
bored stare and said yes and would I like a disc? I meandered the hour a way by
traipsing around the mall and finally the hour was up......Oh my goodness- my expensive little habit
(film photography) would be much easier to sustain here in Chile!! In the UK I
have 1 roll of film developed roughly every two weeks in a Snappy Snaps in
Lewisham, this costs £15 for 36 exposures and a disc of the images (it’s
horridly expensive I know, but I don’t smoke so shush), but in Chile.... it was
£35 for five lots of 36 exposures plus 5 discs!! I thought I’d mistranslated the amount and so
asked her to write it down.
Anyway, why I’m telling you this is because
I am so happy with the images. All of my classmates are so beautiful and the
cities we visited were just...ugh...divine to take pictures of .
I’ll be updating my photography blog with
the images over the next weeks, but for now, here are a few of my favorites:
P.s I’m in the Andes right now, but that’s
a whole other blog post.
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