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Photography is kind of awesome. We finally printed pictures today. I only had enough time to make one print (it is a veeeery time consuming process), but I really love the one I got. I had to futz around with it a lot (I made two copies before the final one) until I got it the way I liked it. We started the day making contact sheets, which are just teetiny images made directly from the negatives. You just lay the negatives on the photo paper, lay glass on top and shine light on it. So the pictures are the size of the negative. But it's really interesting because they look completely different. Pictures that look like snot in negative form are all of a sudden works of art. And unfortunately, it goes the other way, too. I was really excited about a few of them, only to find out they were over or under exposed. Which is really sad, when you happened to have caught a really cool moment. Almost all my Highland pictures were too dark. DARN IT ALL. But here is the one print I finally finished (note, this is a picture of a picture, in Photobooth, nonetheless. It looks a lot better in real life! Also, I had to turn it a bit to avoid the reflection of the computer screen):If you can see, it looks kind of hazy. I originally thought I had smudged the negative or something, but that's really how the picture was taken. I think it looks like something out of an old book that's been tucked in a corner of a library for 50 years. I'm in love, if you can't tell. There are 4 lovely ladies from Japan in my class, and they were all obsessed with it. One even offered me money for it. I politely declined, but wow! It sure was a lucky shot. Because we were only given one roll of film, every picture I took was of something different. I didn't bother to take multiples of anything, changing different camera settings. Anything I happened to get was by chance. So yay for lucky shots!