Retro Weekend - Sunday Snippets (blogtoberfest day 30)
October 30, 2011 I love using my cell phone to capture my weekend adventures. I particularly like using all the different "retro" or "vintage" camera apps available right now. But while I love making my current pictures look vintage, I noticed that many of my pictures taken this weekend for the final Sunday Snippets for Blogtoberfest 2011 were of truly vintage things. Even without the fancy filters.
On Friday, Matt and I watched Amanda Palmer at the beautifully restored Birch North Park Theater (the first two pictures above). And then today we went to one of our favorite coffee shops--Cafe Bassam (the rest of the pictures, except the last)--which is full of innumerable objects of interest and history, and wandered around some of the beautiful historical neighborhoods in San Diego. Bassam's has so many antique and fun pieces in their cafe. Not pictured: the many oil paintings, racks of rifles and muskets, and even more! So lovely and fun. I feel so blessed to have so much charming history in the objects and architecture around me.
What a lovely month it has been. Thank you for taking a peek at it here and there.
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Reader Comments (5)
Love those photos...love how they're all connected by the muted browns and grays.
Great pics! Do you have an iPhone? I'm starting to regret that I traded in for an Android. Everyone have fun iPhone pics. I haven't found an Android app that I like yet.
Thank you, Lauren. I love that app.
Michelle, I have an Android phone too. I use the Retro Cam app the most--that's what took these pictures. There is a free version and a paid version. I have the paid version because it was offered for free in the Amazon App store a few months ago. Vignette is another good one. I just bought the paid version so I can take pictures big enough for my blog, but I had used the free version (Vignette Demo) for over a year prior to that. :)
Hi Christy! I'm popping over from BYW. I love your photos. It's amazing the images that we can capture now with our phones. The vintage filters and frames are great - you can see the little differences in each which gives each photo a unique feel. If you aren't already, i think you should continue this as a series or regular column.
Thanks, Latoya! "Sunday Snippets" is actually a regular column/event organized by tinniegirl, and I just play along with her when I have pics to post. I have been experimenting with different formats for it, and I like how this one turned out.