A short post today: waiting for spring
Author: akilian
Tola is a young photographer from Krakow, Poland. She transferred to the University of Michigan in Fall 2021 from Royal Holloway, University of London, to double-major in Biopsychology, Cognition & Neuroscience and Classical Archaeology. Her series "Tolaroids" consists of photo stories, tutorials, and commentaries that explore all kinds of photography. In her free time, she loves dancing, painting, and sipping good coffee. She also pets all the dogs she can meet on the way to class.
Instagram: @akilian.jpg
Email: akilian@umich.edu
TOLAROIDS: A postcard from Austria
Today I am giving you pictures I took in Austria a few years ago, but not with my usual DSLR but with an Olympus OM-1, an analog camera that essentially taught me photography. In analogs you only get 36 pictures and there is no automatic mode, which means you do your best to learn different settings and assess light conditions before using one of your 36 chances. These pictures were taken on an expired film which is what created the flares and the funky colors in some of them. I left them unedited to keep the vintage feel.
TOLAROIDS: Boats
Sorry for the late post, this week I decided on boats as my main theme – I just like them 🙂
TOLAROIDS: Best snow photoshoot
I was looking through my hard drive to find post material for this week and came across the best photoshoot model I have ever worked with. I present to you Mila, who I miss dearly, as she does some snow adventuring 🙂
TOLAROIDS: Home
Today’s post is going to be short: Here is a piece of home, because I’ve been missing it lately.
TOLAROIDS: Starry Night
We were in Peru in the mountains in a small city called Urubamba when the power went out revealing the most stars I’ve ever seen.
Bonus two photos: the comet NEOWISE that passed Earth in 2020 and that I managed to capture.
