Driving home

I took this picture quickly - for my lomo series - while driving home today.

LOMO

Do you know what LOMO is?
It's a name of a company - producer of the famous camera. LOMO stands for Leningradskoye Optiko Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie (Lenigrad Optical & Mechanical Enterprise). For more than 80 years LOMO has designed and manufactured optical devices for various applications.
You can find more info here

Lomo!

My experience in photography is very little, so not suprisingly once I took a very noisy photo. People throw away such photos usually. But. I liked it, moreover I did want it to be noisy, to look casual and fascinating. Didn't know how to achieve this, so just forgot.

I came across a photo term yesterday. Lomography -that's what I need! This is a very popular style, more than 1 million people all around the world follow it. The main idea is: don't think, just shot. Photos are taken with cheap film cameras traditionaly. What if you've got a digital camera already, and you don't want to buy another one? You can just emulate lomo effects.

Download gimp plugin here: http://registry.gimp.org/node/7870. Place gimplomo.scm into your ~/.gimp-2.4/scripts/ folder. Restart gimp, select "Filters -> Light and Shadow -> Lomo".
Here are some of my pictures.