Pink and blue...

After all the rain and dullness over the past two weeks (I guess the weather didn't get my message about sunshine...) these photos make me so incredibly happy.



I hope they've made your day a bit happier too!

Have a great weekend.

Camera: Yashica Samurai
Film: Kodak Elitechrome ISO 100
Location: Leeds

p.s. Thomas and I have a guest to entertain this weekend, we're taking her to the beach.
It will more than likely rain but at least she's getting a real English beach experience haha.

St Patrick's Chapel, Heysham

Hello! Sorry for the blog silence, I've been sick. 

I'm feeling much better now though and I finally developed my elusive film from February over the weekend too
so I finally have some colour photos to share, hurray!

(I'm not thrilled with the scans though, I'm going to take the negs to my usual place, 
so these may be replaced when I do that...)
 

I'm so glad these photos turned out well, they are of St Patrick's Chapel, Heysham - a ruined building which stands on the coastline of Heysham, next to the newer St Peter's Church. It is a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument believed to be dated from the 8th or 9th Century.

Just beneath the chapel was a peaceful little cove where we sat for a while taking it all in, I loved the colours of the shells and the sound of the waves.

Location: Heysham, Lancashire
Film: Kodak Elitechrome, ISO 100
Camera: Yashica Samurai

Rolling hills...

I'm pretty sure that when people mention the 'rolling hills of England' that this is what people imagine! These were taken just outside Lancaster and I still absolutely love how many sheep there were haha. The barn we stayed at is somewhere to the right of the panoramic down the windy road.

I think taking panoramic pictures with my diana mini is my new favourite thing, they look so abstract with the overlapping lines... I definitely need to play with this idea more! I think it could look fascinating in colour too.

Click on the panoramic photo if you want to see it larger, I really like it!

Camera: Diana Mini
Film: Ilford XP2
Location: Lancashire

p.s. This is also a perfect example of rolling hills. They are one of my favourite things about England, I have to say.

Enjoying Instagram...

 

I wasn't planning on sharing my Instagram photos on here but a mixture of having only black and white diana mini photos to share (which gets a bit dull so many posts in a row...), an undeveloped film and dull rain has put a halt to my film photography adventures at the moment. I really hope the weather picks up soon though my hearts starting to ache for it a little bit.... 

I am enjoying Instagram whilst I'm waiting for the weather to improve though and I'm really enjoying looking at other peoples photos too, I can see what all the fuss was about.

Heysham Diana Mini's Part 3

It's a miserable day in Leeds... kind of like how you picture wet, rainy Yorkshire to be really.

So it seemed like the perfect day to share some gloomy photos from Heysham.
(yup, still catching up with photos from February, oops)

These photos were taken just after parts one and two, and as you can see, the weather really turned on us - though I don't think that this really explains the darkness to the left of the photos... I'm not actually sure what that is. I did have a few problems with loading this film but these were the only photos on the roll with it, so perhaps it was the weather.


Location: Heysham, Lancashire
Film: Ilford XP2 ISO 400
Camera: Diana Mini

A little blog layout update...

Again!!  Oops.

I didn't actually plan to update my blog this week, it just kind of happened but I will admit, I really love it, it kind of feels like this is how it's always looked and how it will always look... though I doubt that it will.

I love it!

p.s. if you're in a reader, come see!

Ah Paris...

Just this week, Diana, Amanda and Morgan and Kim have all shared film photos from Paris... and its been great to see them and remeber, I miss it so much! So I thought I'd share a few more photos that I haven't on here, it's been a while and I want some colour and sunshine.

(Anyone else feeling remarkably uninspired by the dreary weather, where is Spring?!)

 

 Have a great weekend!! 

Camera: Superheadz Slim and Wide
Film: Lomography Xpro (very slowly growing on me...)
Location: Paris!

Spring in Leeds...

I was hoping to have some colour photos to share with you today but my usual photo lab wouldn't cross process my slide film for me yesterday (cue panic and sadness from me) but hopefully I should get that film developed soon and I'll have some colour on here!

I did however get another diana mini, black and white roll developed yesterday, finally and I don't think you'll mind these photos so much. I'm completely smitten with them myself.



Honestly, I think that last photo may be my favourite that I've ever taken!

Funny story - I went to take that photo and Thomas moved his hand in to touch the blossom and I thought - urgh, he always gets in the way of my photos - then I realised that actually it was beautiful just as he moved his hand away, so I bullied him into doing again haha and managed to actually get a rather amazing photo... So there you go, sometimes it's ok to restage photos and sometimes it's ok to let your boyfriends into your photos.

Location: Leeds
Camera: Diana Mini
Film: Ilford XP2 ISO 400


p.s. Happy Birthday Grandad!!! I would have written you a whole post but its not your big birthday until next year and I might have something fun already planned for that :) I hope you have a great day, I love you x

The last of my Scarborough Diana Mini's...

You can see the full set here.

Location: Scarborough 
Camera: Diana Mini 
Film: Ilford XP2 ISO 400

Easter through Instagram...

 

I hope the people who have already seen these don't mind seeing these photos again - I would have posted film photos but I didn't really take any - in fact I hardly took any digital photos this weekend either and it was... relaxing, hurray!!

Our long weekend was a mixture of relaxing at home during the day (hurray for my ereader, I read through 3 books, oops) and then evenings out with our friends and it was great. Saturday was also Thomas's birthday so we went to play pool and then to a bourbon bar where I even found a couple that I liked... 

Now back to work...