"1. Take your camera everywhere you go." - 365 Project, Day 63

In the beginning, there was a camera.  Then, in 1984, a Russian company called Lomo created the Lomo LC-A, a small, fixed-lens compact camera that later became famous (along with its derivatives) for creating interesting photographs with fun effects and sometimes funky colours.  Thanks to a strong base of fans, lomography, though still relatively unknown to mass amounts of people, is enjoys a healthy surge of popularity and vibrant life.

Without getting too technical, the various cameras' combinations of lenses, shutter systems and metering systems create, in the right hands, a very grungy but energetic style of photography, generally characterised by strong colours and vignetting (depending, of course, on location, lighting and film used).  They are, after all, film cameras, and even some digital cameras (most notably the Olympus E-PL2) have a lomo effect in their filter settings, trying to copycat the photography movement.

How the picture is taken is just as important, as well.  There are ten golden rules of lomography shooting, and though I have a Canon digital camera, I don't think that matters given the spirit of the movement.

Today's pictures, oddly, apart from my own, don't show how, let's say, damp the weather showed itself to be.

Frank

His note: Had a doctor's appointment today and waited in one of her cubicles. There was this lamp that looked like the inverse of a disco ball. So many small squares in a concave bowl. I took about 20 shots of it and this was the most intriguing.

Shannon

Her note: My dad has this old fashioned pump in his backyard... too bad it doesn't work

Me

In the car on the way to a family dinner.  It's rainy and dark.  I would have preferred a blurrier picture, given what I'm trying to accomplish with this lomography thing, but this is the best the rain would allow.  I almost maxed out the ISO in the camera (ISO1600) to make it even less crisp.  I'm not completely happy with the way this turned out but I'll take it.