Capturing Life

I have always been so slack with taking photos, I never take them. Yes I take some selfies every know and then and I have gotten a lot better since having my iPhone but its at times in my life where I'm like "I want to remember this forever", that I don't take many pictures and I always wake up the next morning and think how I would love to go back in time just to take photos.

I know this is a silly little thing to get upset about especially with so much else going on but I cant help but feel thins way.

Like, last year I had my high school graduation. yes there where professional photographers but sometimes its nice to have photos that you have taken yourself to the people who mean most to you doing ridiculous poses. The only photos I took were some selfies where I had already changed out of my dress. this is the same for my 18th birthday. There was one photo take of me at my birthday dinner that night, one photo of me blowing out the candles. back at my house I did take some selfies with my best friend but by then I was out of my dress and my hair was up so no one would know what I looked like at my birthday.

Fujifilm Instax Mini 8

Just a few pictures over the past 5 years

 

Pictures from my Europe trip

 

So in order to try and take more photos I invested in a Fujifilm Instax Mini 8. I realise that this is probably not the cheapest way to take photos but ever since I was little I have loved polaroid cameras and so I just bought one. As well as this I am trying to make more of an effort to do something with the photos I take. I recently printed off around 250 photos from my time in Europe (which was at the beginning of this year) and an assortment of random photos from the past 5 years. lets hope that I actually do something with them and that they don't just sit in my cupboard.

Sorry for the very long post but I just want to be able to look back on photos and remember all the memories and happy times.

Feel free to comment telling me I'm not the only one who feels like this.

Bye,
Owl
xx