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July’s second name should be “Vacation Month” — it seems like half the people I know are beach-bound in the next few weeks. Whether you’ll be sticking your toes in the sand or enjoying summer from home, you’ll love this month’s Freebie Friday giveaway: a La Sardina Camera from international analog photography shop Lomography.
Analog (Film!) Cameras From Lomography
Sure, digital cameras are fun, but summer is the perfect time to experiment (again) with the wonder of manual film. This Capri Saracena model comes outfitted with a wide-angle lens and a powerful flash that includes 3 color filters, so a day at the beach (or in the backyard) will turn into a photo that’s frame-worthy. (Check out some of the shots other La Sardina photographers took with this camera.) Plus, the durable, bright deck chair fabric covering makes this camera a perfect accent piece when you’re not out snapping photos. We’ll include three rolls of 35MM film to get you started.
To enter for a random chance to win this camera, answer this month’s question in the comments below: What’s your favorite way to decorate with photography (or cameras)?
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I love getting photographs turned into posters and panel art.
Im not really artsy and creative when it comes to decorating with pictures ii have books displayed that are full of different occasion pictures, its nice to look through them and remember
I decorate my home with the photos I take. I get each photo framed and hang them on the walls throughout the house.
I love decorating the spaces I spend the most time in with photos. Living away from my family, it's nice to keep some of my favorite shots on my office desk or nightstand.
I love taking pictures and then making the frames that they go in.
I like to print family photos in sepia and arrange them in clusters.
My favorite way to decorate with photos is to enlarge them, attach to a sheet of scrapbook paper and then put inside of a frame – you get an inexpensive matte and can make a piece of art out of any photo!
This camera is a nick nack all its own and an item to be shown off!
I like candid pictures that capture the moment.
My husband and I are taking photos of ourselves every day for the first year of our marriage and creating a coffee table book that we can show off to all our friends who visit.
I love hanging photographs accross a room using string and clothes pins! and it is so easy to interchange them!
I love scanning in old black and white photos from my parents' photo albums. I get the photos enhanced and enlarged and put them in beautiful frames to use as art in home and at work.
Mostly photos of my two sons, but interspersed with photos of old family photos and I love big blown up photos of the sky (clouds, sunsets, you name it). One trick is to buy a bunch of cheap and light frames from and to spray paint them with bright bold colors.
I like to arrange my family photos in one large frame. The photos are from one special family activity. I use scrapbooking paper and messages to convey the happiness of these family moments.
I love to have pictures of my family and close friends all over! I have an end table that is full of different colors, shapes, sized frames and a couple of collage frames as well! Candid are the best and show true feelings of the moment captured.
I LOVE decorating with photos; I have a new apartment, and my walls could definitely use some personalized art.
I love lomography. You'll should do craft shows again and have them use the new cellohone and lomo art.
I love to display black and white photos. Certain photos pop in black and white.
I love to hang photos of my family laughing. Tears, veins bulging, tummy shaking it hurts I'm laughing so hard laughter. That's how I like to decorate. Then there are the baby cute pics and mom and dad holding hands in the sand etcc… Happy memories to keep us grounded
I love having all the pictures in my desktop's background. It randomly keeps changing every 10 seconds and I love that.
Sepia collages are my favorite way to decorate with photos.
I like to have pictures tell a story of family and friends and connect generations. We have taken alot of trips with our kids and grandkids and It's something that we pass on. My grandchildren have had a chance to get to know great grandparents that have passed on before they were born but because of pictures and my stories of my memoriesit connected them to some very wonderful people.
I love placing small photos in old 4×5 film holders that use to be dipped into the chemicals. I usually hang them in groupings of 3 or 4.
I love taking my favorite pic from each vacation over the last few years and adding them to a small gallery wall I just started.
I have one huge wall in my room that covered with pictures. Maybe I have 2000 pictures on this wall it’s my own collage. Now I just a baby and I will capture her growth on my wall. This is my favorite way to decorate.
I stick photos just about everywhere with double sided tape. I try to pick spots like my bathroom mirror, my fridge, my memo board, the inside of my front door, my car sun visor, etc. to put pictures of people and places I love– either just to make me smile or remind me to call them, visit them, etc.
We have a long hallway in our house that I would love to make one big gallery wall. In the meantime, I did a smaller one in the living room centered around a print I had done on metal.
I like grouping them by the entry way!
This is so cute. I became a grandma for the 2nd time yesterday 7-6-12 and will be again anyday. What a fun way for me to capture those special "Granny" moments.
I love Lomos! But I don´t have one…
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I like taking photos for my blog but really I enjoy photographs because they r tangible memories. It's nice to look back at a photo and think wow I can't believe I caught a shot of that or yea that was a fun day. Making a collage or pic stitch of a group of photos is the icing on the photography cake! So hands down that's my fav way to decorate my wall and/or wallpaper of my phone
I like a series of prints in identical frames. I have more art than I have room to hang up, so I rotate them and rearrange to tell stories or fit party themes. Most of my house is pure chaos and mess, but this is one place where I let out my inner Martha.
I love taking pictures and having my husband make the frames to put them in.
I have a collection of vintage cameras that I place in vignettes throughout my house. I also use family photos wherever possible as I love to see the faces of loved ones in every nook and cranny of the home.
selective coloring
on the fridge!
I've always loved taking pictures. After my first Grandaughter was born, I started a gallery wall with pictures just of her. Four weeks ago I was blessed with another Grandaughter, so it's time to start another gallery wall. I'm so excited to get started. It's like having them here with me all the time.
Great camera!! I love the idea of decorating with old cameras.
As for photographs I prefer just using unique frames to enhance the feel.
I like decorating with pictures in frames
I live in Florida, so I really like taking pictures of the ocean and wildlife to decorate my place. The birds are beautiful to photograph! One of my favorite pictures I took is a bird flying into the sunset over the beach. I also love going to Fort Pickens, which is an old fort they used in previous wars. There are arched doorways, hidden areas, and old artifacts! It is great to photograph and display! And of course my maltipoo Haley! =0)
I add pictures to my Christmas letter.
On my Mantel I have photos of family members. My favorites are small frames I put on top of a stack of matching books with the spines showing. Even coordinated the frame with the color of the book binding. One set of books has green bindings and the other has burgundy bindings. Adds height and interest at
two spots among the other photos.
After having my amazing daughter a little over a year ago I have found myself taking so many pictures of her! I would love to use this camera to perserve a little piece of her childhood!
I love to capture nature in all it's splendor. I so want to remember the beautiful flower or the majestic sky with puffy clouds and pinks and corals swirling all around like a can of spilled paint. Of course I also like to remember those precious moments my kids do nothing more than sit under a tree, or perhapse the moment pure bliss exudes from their being. Cameras, oh how such beautiful memories are allowed to be savored time and time again.
I turned silhouette photos into artwork for my walls, very fun
As the resigned owner of a problematic long-term memory (short term also, if you believe some family members), I depend on visual clues to constantly remind myself of vacations and milestones. I obsess over photographs taken at every step because my biggest fear is not having memories to sustain me when our children are grown and on their own. Whether it's digital albums on computers or cell phones, print albums on bookcases or framed photographs on every surface, photography has become more than a hobby.
I love to make photo books and leave them all over our house for guests to view. My kids enjoy looking at the pics when they were younger. They are treasures.
I like to set out photos from years past to match with the season. It is always fun to look back at my kids as they were way back when……
I love making photo gifts for my family or sending a package of photos off to a distant relative. Of course, I also love framing them all over my house!
Love cropping candid shots of the kids and hanging them around the house.