I’m sure I’ve said this before, but of all the awesome reasons I love my blog, one of the top three has to be the opportunity it gives me to show off all the amazingly talented and artistic friends I have.

Lingsi is one such friend. She can paint and draw and takes amazing photos, and with her Diana F+ too!

A couple of weekends ago Lingsi, Pam (another rad photochick) and myself (Diana mini noob) hit up the Sydney Biennale at Cockatoo Island. Some of the shots below are from that trip, but Lingsi’s one hepcat Lomo-er so some are from her other lomo day excursions.

from Vivid Sydney

Cue show off fanfare.

Lingsi also wrote an interesting post over at her blog comparing digital and film photography. She says: “in this digital era where people have no idea to function their cameras and put everything on ‘auto’, it can get a bit impersonal and brainless, whereas lomography is more of an artistic and creative process of capturing moments.”

I think this could also apply to my recent typewriter adventures. The way one writes on a manual, sometimes sticky-keyed old typewriters is so much more careful and deliberate. At first it’s frustrating that

my fingers cannot keep up with my brain, and I realised how much I take the ‘delete’ key for granted. But there’s something soothing in the hard punching motion of the keys, and something a little more rewarding when the end result is a hard copy piece of text.

Lingsi doesn’t discount digital photography, which I think is quite thoughtful (and lucky for us, given that she’s also a gifted digital photographer!); rather, she compares the two types of photography: the widened artistic scope that is made possible by the digital medium, as well asthe accidental beauty that can stem from mistakes in lomography. You can see more of her photos at Lingsi’s Flickr site.