cerealjoe | Feb. 1st - bring your DianiMini to work day! (Reply)

I should communicate on the results of my experiments and this is an experiment from last week: capture a day in my life with the Diana Mini, no flash and Fuji200 film. The results go from "oh god, this is the highest form of art one can come up with!" to "hum... it's just black".

I actually took away from really dark shots but the rest is here, in its Lomo!Gali!fail glory.

This was Tuesday, February 1st, 2011. All the fun things of workday.

Wake up time - around 6:20am.
Train check time - just in case my morning train is cancelled. Alas they don't announce half-hour delays that early.

Hello!

7:20am - at the train station parking lot.
7:30am - the train isn't late for once!
(true story: yesterday as the train was arriving in Toulon, at the end of the usual "notre TER arrive en gare de Toulon, veuillez vérifier que vous n'avez rien oublié à votre place" the guy added "le TER arrivera à l'heure prévue" (the train will make it to the station on time) which was followed by more than a few laughs.)

Time check, almost.
Working on the train, usually I get more done than through the rest of the day.

Bonjour Toulon!

Walking, walking, walking and some more walking.
(I am proud of these two shots like only a mother could, aren't they gorgeous in their own way?)

The walking bit continues for about twenty minutes or so.
And there are palm trees here.

The light at the end of the tunnel. Almost there.

Awesome peeps take stairs everywhere. Even to the 5th floor (French way of counting).

Hello morning tea and building across from the "cafeteria".
Oh... and hello table.

This is the lunch table and I always whine that it gets the best light during the first hours of a workday.
My desk doesn't compare...

Then again from the lunch table I wouldn't get this view.
And so the day goes on like this... desk, hallway, talking to peeps, lunch, desk, stare out the window some more.

Reports to finish.
Much less fascinating than the view.

Time to put the coat back on and head out.
(the dark photo reads "niveau 0", stairs are my friends... the wait for the elevators is too long, bah.)

Going the other way to the train station.
Goodbye last rays of sun!

I'm mastering the shoot-from-the-hip style.
Now to make it less blurry...

Almost there!

Plunging into the depths of the train station.

My favourite activity: waiting for the train.
(do I have stories of trains being late? Noooo... oh, wait, that just happens way more often than it's supposed to. And we're not talking 5 minutes late.)