photo credit: rbrwr

Only four more days until the World Film photography Day on the 20th March. Get your film camera out and take a few photos on the day. Get your kids a disposable camera and get them photoblogging for the day. Annoy your partner by chasing them about your house with your kids all with cameras in hand. Get out and about and take some serious photos and maybe take your kids along and show them the ropes.

Once you’ve done that get the films developed and get busy posting them up on the internet for everyone to see.

Remember back when I first mentioned this day? The website I mentioned that was holding a blog carnival is still looking for submissions right up until the 20th March. As you may have picked up from the comments on earlier post I ‘won’ the disposable cameras and they arrived on Friday so we’re all looking forward to this coming Thursday so we can get out and about and use them.

On March 20, there will be the first ever World Film Photography Day. It’s got to that stage where film photographers have to push to be remembered almost.

Over at Foreignlight Julia Scho is running a small blog carnival to highlight the day and get people thinking about their photography. Answer a few questions and if you get your reply in before the 5th March and you live within the EC your in with a chance of getting one of her disposable cameras to use on the day.

I’ve long been a fan of film photography but I lack many of the skills needed to be a succesful film photographer and I don’t have the cash to work on them. This is where digital comes into it’s own as you have no development costs but at the same time it looses that mystique that film has. Up until very recently I still used my trusty Canon compact over my digital when I wanted good crisp photos.

As I mentioned earlier its almost as if the film photographers by having this day are standing on a box shouting “Hey we’re still here you know!” I walked into my local camera shop the other day and was actually shocked to find where they once had a wall of film to choose from they now had a small display of memory cards and maybe 6 brands/types of film. They didn’t even have any B&W film in stock!

I’ve still got a few rolls of film about the house so I may just give this a go but I think I actually may invest in a couple of disposable cameras and give one to our eldest for him to record his day and I’ll use the other to try and get our middle child interested in photography. He’s got the toy camera but he’s at that age where looking through the lens is more fun that looking through the eyepiece! It would be good to let the boys know where photography came from, they see me with my camera all the time so it’s about time I started passing on the fascination.