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About three years ago, my good friend, Mikko, bought a Supersampler for me. It only cost her about $20 then (it was a special deal, too, since she also bought one for herself) so I paid her only P1,000 for the toy camera. I had no idea how to use it but it looked so cute (my Supersampler is blue). Haha!

So I loaded the first roll (yes, you use regular 35mm film for this! I don't know but you probably stopped using film for a while now, right?) and took pictures at the beach. I lovelovelove how the pictures turned out! The pictures came out over-saturated, which made it look different from pictures taken with other film cameras. The supersampler has FOUR lenses, which takes pictures one after the other. So since there are four lenses, there are also four pictures, right? But all the shots come out on one frame. So you have four panels of simultaneous movement on one picture. It's pretty awesome if you ask me.

According to the company that produces these cameras (there are different kinds), here are the 10 Rules of Lomography:

1. Take your LOMO everywhere you go and whenever you go.
2. Use it any time - day or night.
3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but a part of it.
4. Shoot from the hip.
5. Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible.
6. Don't think.
7. Be fast.
8. You don't have to know beforehand what you've captured on film.
9. You don't have to know afterwards, either.
10. Don't worry about the rules.

You can read more about Lomography here.

I have kept the camera in my room for about three years now (After three or four rolls the year I got it, I stopped using it. Mostly because it had to be super sunny for the pictures to come out nice.). And this year, I suddenly had the urge to bring it out and take pictures with it again.

Here are a couple of pictures I took when my friends and I went to Enchanted Kingdom last weekend:

That's the Carousel and part of the floor near the entrance.

This is the ride I probably will never go on. (You can see part of my finger in two of the panels! Haha!)

I loved taking pictures of the Wheel of Fate.

This was an experiment. We wanted to get one person per panel. Obviously, we failed. haha! But that's what I love about taking pictures with my Lomo! It's waiting for the film to get developed and see how the pictures came out because half the time, you're really not planning the shots. You don't really look through the view finder to frame your subject. You just shoot, shoot, shoot, and shoot!

This is one of my favorite shots from this roll. That's me and my good friend Kaich. We also have another picture of our shadows from when we went to the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta.

Have you ever tried taking pictures with a Lomo? I'd love to hear from you! Maybe you can even give me tips!

Feeling super,
Macy