Lake Windermere Part 1

One of the (many) perfect things about the Barn that we got for Mum's surprise weekend, was that it was a perfect distance from the Lake District. My parents spent a week in the Lakes a couple of years ago and we knew that they both loved it and wanted to take us there, so the first lake that we visited was Lake Windermere.

Lake Windermere is England largest lake at 10.5 miles long and it felt huge! It wasn't very wide but it just seemed to go on and on, especially as we drove along it - I actually thought it was a different lake at one point but no - still the same huge lake.



We decided to go on one of the tourist boats heading towards the south of the Lake and Harry loved absolutely loved it.

As well as the Lakes, the area is famous for its hills (or Fells) that surround the lakes and these were stunning in the distance and provided the perfect backdrop to the slightly choppy waters.



 I can definitely understand now why the Lake District is such a popular holiday destination, you definitely get the feeling that you haven't seen everything when you go there... I'm looking forward to perhaps going back one day to explore more.

Camera: Yashica Samurai Film:
 Lomography CN 400 
Location: Lake Windermere, England.

Instax Mini's from the weekend...

This past weekend, I finally got to take out my little Fuji Instax Mini - I've been trying to be conservative with my mini's as they can be quite expensive (especially at the rate I take them, haha) but as this was a special occasion I thought it was the perfect time to use it.

For my Mum's second birthday weekend, we surprised her with a long weekend away at a glorious barn in Lancashire which was perfectly placed in the middle of nowhere, along an incredible windy road with the most perfect surrounding scenery and lots of sheep and lambs.


You can kind of make out the sheep and the barn in the first photo towards the right hand side, in the middle... just.

On Sunday we visited Morcambe - which wasn't really that great, other than the Eric Morcambe statue but the day was made much better by going 3 miles down the coast to Heysham, which was beautiful and so calm and relaxing.



We managed to take a crazy number of photos between us and I can't wait to share more of them, it really was a perfect family weekend of celebrating and relaxing! I want to go back already...

Camera: Fuji Instax Mini
Locations: Quernmore, Heysham and Morcambe, Lancashire
 

LC-A woes...

Out of the 6 films that I developed this week - 2 were taken with my LC-A and unfortunately only half of one roll and just 2 photos from the other roll worked . After doing a bit of research (and help from friends, thanks Angie!) I'm really hoping that it's the batteries that arethe problem and I've ordered some Silver Oxide ones for my next roll.

I really hope it is that as this camera was really starting to grow on me and I'm happy with the photos that did work out...  These were taken at the Lomo Meet Up in Manchester.


{This one was for Alyssa lol} 

 

{LC-A love with my new Lomo friend Jenny} 

I decided to add the last photo for all the ones that didn't work out :( I hate it when something goes wrong when taking photos. I do love that clock photo though and I'm so glad that one came out well.

Have a great weekend!!

We love the beach video #2

It's no secret here that Wells-Next-The-Sea is my favourite beach, I must have taken most of my cameras there at some point - and last weekend was the turn of my new little Lomokino. After last years little scare, I'm so so glad that it worked and I finally got some footage of Harry!


 Family trips to the beach - even in the rain (which you can't really see) are my favourite!!

Today marks the beginning of my Mum's second birthday weekend celebration and I can't wait to make more videos (and memories) of my family this weekend, hurray!!

p.s. you should watch until the end, just for Harry :)

Canal details...

Yesterday I dropped off 6 films to be developed and I am EXCITED, so I thought now would be the best time to round off the photos from our little walk along the canal with my little yellow superheadz camera. I'm still amazed by how this Ilford film is capturing my analogue heart... I need more already!



Also, just a quick note to say thank you to everyone who left my Mum a birthday comment, I loved reading them. I actually have no idea if she's seen them yet though lol, I'll get on that.

Happy Birthday Mum!!!

 

The main reason for our two weekends with my family is that it's my Mum's 50th birthday today.

Isn't that exciting!

Happy 50th birthday Mum!

I love you and I can't wait to see you in a couple of days and spend another weekend celebrating with you. I hope you have a wonderful day. Thank you for not just being the best Mum that Mikela and I could have asked for but one of our best friends too x

p.s. how amazing are the photos of my Mum when she was little?! I love them!

The weekend in phone photos...

 

This weekend was the first of two with my family and I loved every minute of it... and of course I took lots of photos of Harry too :)  I'm counting down the days until this weekend now!

 p.s. This weekend was my little blogs 3rd birthday - time flies when you're having fun.

Thank you so much to everyone who's supported me in the last three years, you have no idea how much it means to me :) x

I love photos of Horses...

{I was a little sad about this one, as it looked so thin... but I didn't want to ignore it, it seemed worse somehow}



We saw quite a lot of horses on our walk along the canal and I couldn't help but take photos of them.
I was really happy with the reflection in the last photo... especially as it didn't start drinking until we were stood right in front of it.

Location: Leeds Liverpool Canal
Cameras: Refurbished LC-A & Superheadz Yellow Peace
Films: Kodak Elite Chrome 100 & Ilford XP2 400

Thomas's Scarborough Photos...

We were incredibly lucky whilst we were in Scarborough that although there was snow everywhere and it was freezing, especially in the sea breeze, it was still very sunny and both Thomas and I had the opportunity to take lots of photos. I still haven't developed my photos but I loved Thomas's so much that I wanted to share some of his photos here too. 

I always love the details that Thomas notices that I don't - the texture of the snow against the sand, the huge icicles hanging from the beach huts, the snow on the cliffs in the distance... I guess last weekend counted as an extended photography date :) hurray.

Photographer: Thomas

Camera: Sony H7

Location: Scarborough.