This is a favorite photo of mine. It was 2007? Maybe 2006...and I was going through our storage compartment and I found my dad's old Canon AE-1 Program. This camera holds a special place in my heart. It was my dad's first camera when he arrived to the states so it was the first "family" camera. When I was a kid, I was so captivated by this marvelous thing. From the way how sturdy it looked and the way the silver metal shined when the sunlight hit it. When that thing fired off a shot, the sound of the shutter! My god it was music to me. He stopped shooting the thing decades ago and never really handed it down to me so when I found it, I transformed into a little kid again and took it upon myself to make me its new owner.
Later that day, I bought myself some b&w film and took it out that night to the Santa Monica pier and fired off every exposure in that roll and alot of them turned out really great but this one photo of the ferris wheel stole my heart. It was really cold that night and a bit windy so it was very difficult for me to try and keep my hands as steady as I could to take this long exposure shot. I had the aperture @ f1.8 with a 3 second shutter speed delay. I shot this image twice because the first one, I felt a bit of handshake, more so than I was comfortable with and this was the second one.
Sadly, the camera was damaged in a car accident about 2 years ago. I still have it and I suppose I could get it repaired but it'll cost me a pretty penny. More than what the camera is worth, monetary value wise. I had some nice adventures with it and I'll keep and treasure those fond memories but I think I'll leave it be. Eh, maybe I'll just clean it up and use it as a show piece.