Harrogate Typography

Looking through the photos that I took in Harrogate on our week off, I noticed a theme in my photos... type! I don't usually intend to take certain types of photos, I just go somewhere and get a feel for it and capture what I spot, but part of me must have been searching for words whilst we were there this time.



These were taken with Kodak Portra NC 160 film which I've been pretty excited about using in my LC-A and I'm really pleased with the results, I especially love the tones of the colours.

Have a great weekend!!

Camera: Refurbished LC-A
Film: Kodak Portra 160 NC
Location: Harrogate

10 things you might not know about me...

 
{LC-A, Kodak Portra NC 160 film}

I've been slowly reading through Susannah Conway's book, This I Know, savouring it, thinking over it and really, really enjoying it. This I Know is not a book to be rushed.

In one part of her book Susanah talks about blogging and sets a little challenge to share 10 things about yourself that people don't know, so I decided to just do it. I've been so distracted these past couple of weeks that I haven't felt as in touch with the blogging community as I would like to be, so maybe you could share something about yourself too below? Let's reconnect!

Here goes...

1. I've been in a relationship now for nearly 10 years and it still amazes me.

2. I'm an extrovert. I've never thought about it seriously before but whilst reading Angie's post it just made sense that I was, I talk a lot and to anyone and I am so easily distracted (heh). In many ways its nice to know that I'm not completely crazy but I also know that it doesn't really define me, it just explains (a lot of) the things that I've had to learn to work around and also why I totally don't get some people.

3. I thought that when my little sister got married I would be less worried about her, it turns out that now I just have a little brother (in law) to worry about too.
(Has anyone read the part in Susannah's book about being a big sister? I cried.)

4. In writing that point above, I should probably write that I worry too much.
 and...some nights I'm so worried/anxious I can't sleep.

5. I am the pickiest person when it comes to music, Thomas has almost given up recommending music for me - though I personally think it is this that kept him on his toes for the past 10 years, hehe.

6. We watch a lot of TV and films - there is so much good TV at the moment, we're currently catching up on Dexter, Boardwalk Empire, Parks and Recreation and we've just finished watching the whole of Seinfeld for the second time through and about to start again.

7. I loooove classic old films and we've been slowly watching more and more, I've only just seen Casablanca but it was so good - next on our list is To Kill a Mockingbird and I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

8. The healthier you eat, the harder it seems to lose weight.... I'm 100% sure that my body is in super suvival mode and stores any and all food that I eat, just in case... It is incredibly frustrating and slow for me to feel any progress when I'm trying to be good and although I'm not unhappy with how I look, I do want to be trimmer, sometimes I just wish I didn't have to watch every single thing that I eat, all the time... and that sugar free things actually tasted nice.

9. Putting my new site together has made it harder for me to blog here at the moment - I think my heart has already moved home, even if its not official yet... its also made me realise how much I love blogging and how much I've done with it in the past three years. I've seen posts about blogging changing a lot and it has... but I've changed too and I still want to be here and I hope that you do too :)

10. One of my favourite things is hanging the washing out in the garden. Isn't that sad. But it means that one, I have a garden(!) and two, its not raining and even more, its sunny. 

Thomas laughed at me for putting this photo up in our house but I really like it as it reminds me of the little things to be grateful for...

p.s. the photo is totally unrelated, but I like it :)

Lomo lovers film swap... the second set

A couple of weeks ago I posted some photos from the first film that got developed as part of my contribution to the Lomo Lovers film swap.

As I mentioned before, I was partnered with Davide and yesterday he shared the photos from the second roll of film. The film this time was Kodak Elitechrome 100 (which Davide cross processed) that I orginally exposed with my La Sardina and sent to Davide in Italy(!) which he then put through his LC-A+.


These photos in particular I exposed at Kirkstall Abbey. I thought that at least one of the films I took should have some photos of there on it and I was really excited to see what Davide would expose over the top and I was not disappointed with the results. I particularly love the coffee sign!

Thank you so much to the Lomo Lovers - Nicola and Sam - for organising this swap...
and thank you, of course, to Davide too!
Hurray for film swaps!!!

Cameras: LC-A+ and La Sardina
Film: Kodak Elitechrome 100
Location: England and Italy(!)

Feeling blue...

Last month Katie from Curating Cuteness shared some of her gorgeous redscale XR photos and I was completely smitten with the blue tones that she managed to produce.

Knowing that I could set the ISO with my LC-A, I set out determined to get similar results in Scarborough and although the blue tones are quite subtle, I'm so happy with how these photos look.


p.s. I'm not really feeling blue, I just liked it for a title :)

Location: Scarborough 
Film: Lomo Redscale XR
Camera: Refurbished LC-A

Redscale bunting...

There wasn't as much bunting in Scarborough compared to Knaresborough but I still couldn't help taking photos of it when I saw it and this redscale XR film with my LC-A is currently my most favourite thing!

I'll apologise now if I've been a bit scarce in the blogging community this week - I've been extremely distracted creating a new home for my blog (its bigger, better and quite frankly, awesome!) which I'm hoping to share soon... mainly because I might burst with excitement if I don't share it soon haha. Anyway, I hope all is well with you all - I'll try and catch up soon.

 Have a great weekend! 

Camera: Refurbished LC-A
Film: Lomo Redscale XR

Location: Scarborough

Bunting!!

I guess that now is as good a time as any to confess a love for bunting, it makes everywhere look much more colourful and its also pretty fun to take photos of.

These were taken the week of the Queen's Jubilee and Knaresborough was the perfect place to see so much bunting, it's such a quiant place already that the bunting looked like it had always been there.


Bunting everywhere hurray. 

Camera: Refurbished LC-A
Film: Lomography Xpro Chrome
Location: Knaresborough

One spot, two films...

Now that I have a working LC-A, I've been making up for lost time and over our holiday week I took 4 films and they all worked, woohoo!! Exciting, I know.

As I was using two different films in the same camera, I wasn't too worried about perhaps taking the same photos twice as I knew that they wouldn't look the same even if they were similar and now that I'm looking at the results, I'm really glad that I didn't worry as it's great to see the comparisons.


The first photo was taken with Lomography Redscale XR and I'm so glad that I've finally used that film with my LC-A, it did not disappoint and the second photo is with Lomography Tungsten film which I was also looking forward to trying out.

It doesn't hurt that this view is one of my favourites in Scarborough but I don't think I could pick between the two...


Camera: Refurbished LC-A
Films: Lomography Tungsten and Redscale XR films
Location: Scarborough

Harry's little photoshoot

As part of my sister's wedding, little Harry got to have his photo taken wearing a celebratory bow tie, which he seemed more than happy to do for a treat.

The photographer - Daniel from Lightening Photography was amazing, both with Harry and throughout the wedding. I can't wait to frame these somewhere in our house.

Credit for all photos: Daniel from Lightening Photography

These photos were used with his permission.

Shades of turquoise...

Remember my confession of love for this Agfa film yesterday... well here are more reasons why I really love that turquoise shift and also, another confession of love for my Superheadz camera... I knew it could produce beautiful vignetting, but this film has taken that aspect and really made it special.

Compared to yesterday's photos, for some reason these doubles only seem to show hints of Davide's exposure and my photos of Wells and Harry (who I'm seeing Sunday, woo) are really prominent but I love the subtleness of layering this produces.



One of my favourite things about film is that there are so many options before you even take photos, its easy to stick with camera/film combinations but these photos remind me that I need to try as many different films as I can.

Have a great weekend! 

We're actually going home and to Wells again this weekend, so these photos are pretty fitting.


Camera: Superheads Wide and Slim and LC-A+
Film: Agfa Precisa CT 100
Location: Wells-Next-the-Sea, England and Italy(!)

Lomo lovers film swap... the first set

Over the past couple of months I've been taking photos as part of the Lomo Lovers film swap.

(which reminds me, I need to do mine again soon right?)

I was partnered with Davide and these photos are from the roll of Agfa CT Precisa 100 (which I cross processed) that Davide originally took in Italy(!) with his LC-A+ and then I doubled with my Superheadz Wide and Slim. What do you think of our results?


Even though some of the shots aren't lined up I still really like them.
I was a bit dubious of green shades with cross processing after using the Lomography Xpro, but this Agfa film has a more turquoise shift rather than green and I love the shades of yellow it produces.
I think I definitely need to buy some more of this film soon.

You can see the whole roll of photos here and also check out the film swap Flickr group here too.

Film: Agfa Precisa CT 100 (Xpro'd)
Cameras: LC-A+ and Superheadz Wide and Slim
Location: Italy(!) and England. Woo.