The Traveling Toy Camera Project has been really successful so far and I’m thrilled about it!! The camera has gone from Ottawa to Vancouver and Vancouver to Chicago, now the camera has traveled on to Oregon now. Soon it will be making the jump across the pond and doing some time in Europe!
Check out the most recent photos on the blog:
http://travelingtoycameraproject.blogspot.com/

And our photos in the flickr group.

So the camera has been on the move! It made it’s way to Vancouver and has traveled on from there to Chicago! Now, I did make a little mistake as I meant for the camera to go to Oregon and move across North America before going on to the first Europe leg…that said I am thrilled that the camera has been traveling well.

I can’t wait to see what the first 2 people have chosen to photograph and how their images turn out! One member has suggested starting a flickr group for everyone to post their images so I’m hoping to do that…I don’t use flickr a lot so it will be a learning experience for me!

That’s it for now! Cheers!

So the Traveling Toy Camera Project is now underway with the camera making its way across the country. I’ve posted a few photos from my first roll. Please check out the blog for more images!

So I’ve been referencing a project I was working on in a few of my posts – it was actually an article for Light Leaks magazine which will be in their latest issue. I was so happy to be writing again and about something I really love – so I hope everyone enjoys the article.  Click here for a sneak peak of the upcoming issue!

This week I got the traveling toy camera project off the ground and the camera is all boxed up and ready to roll! I can’t wait to see what kind of photos people will take and get my own roll back and be able to share the images on the Traveling Toy Camera Project blog.

My sinus/eye infection seem to be improving so it’s nice to be out and about instead of lying in my room. While I was off sick I took the time to get acquainted with my new Diana instant back – a very exciting prospect for me! I took a great instant photo of me looking pretty sick but I was happy that the back was working and I definitely look forward to testing it further!

This past week I’ve had an unfortunate cold and eye infection (I will spare you the details) but I have been rather excited because I’ve been organizing a traveling toy camera project with the cool kids at ToyCamera (which is easy when you are in bed all day).

What is a traveling toy camera project you might say? Well, it’s when a group of people from around the world share one camera. Each individual gets to shoot a roll of film with the camera before passing it along to the next person. After that each person develops their roll of film and posts the results to the blog: http://travelingtoycameraproject.blogspot.com/

I have always wanted to be a part of such a project but have never managed to learn about them in time to participate. For this particular project we have a few Canadians, plenty of Americans and some Europeans to get us started. And we already have a suggestion for the next traveling toy camera project!

For this project we are using a Vivitar UWS – it was suggested by another participant and since I’ve never used one I thought it would be great idea. Not only that but it takes 35mm film which is great since it’s affordable and accessible to those wishing to participate.

I really can’t wait to see what everyone photographs and watch it travel the world!