Spinning on the beach!

After all the excitement of the family beach video that I made during Mum's birthday weekend in Lancashire, I completely forgot about this roll of film and the videos I got from it at the beginning of February.

 You can just see the snow on the beach whilst I'm spinning around
(like you do on the beach).

Lomokino love...

I'm completely in love with my Lomokino and the little home movies you can make with it - In fact my only sadness about the video from Mum's birthday weekend is that I didn't shoot more so it could have been longer. 

The beginning of the video is shot in Morecambe and the rest is in a little village called Heysham just along the coast from Morecambe which I loved. Also, I like to make people wave in videos it seems, haha.

This past weekend I spent with my parents and I didn't really take any photos - sometimes that happens, I just want to remember it rather than capture it and it was a great weekend to remember most definitely.

p.s. Hi Nanna and Grandad, I hope you can watch this video on your laptop :) let me know if you can't! Lots of love x

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 :)

A sunny Winter day at Kirkstall Abbey...

Over Christmas I shot a little film of us taking Harry for a walk... but it didn't work, the film was completely blank and my heart was a little bit broken...

So, last weekend we took my little Lomokino out and shot a quick little film around Kirkstall Abbey to make sure it was working ok. And thankfully, it worked!! Hurray!

I'm so relieved... I'll just have to try and make a video of Harry another time!

Happy weekend! 

p.s. finding the perfect music to match my videos is my new favourite hobby... getting the right is one is the best feeling.

We love the beach video #1

Oh gosh, I am completely smitten with my Lomokino, I can't wait to take it home for Christmas! 

It's so fun to use and put together. I need more home movies!!

We were in Minehead a couple of weekends ago and even though it was raining, we (or mainly I haha) wanted to make a fun video on the beach... and here it is!

I was a little upset that the images didn't scan as evenly as the last couple of videos (I don't have a scanner to rescan it with, sigh) but when I mentioned it on twitter Dominique reminded me that 'messed up film reminds you that it's analogue'. So I stopped worrying... you can still see whats happening and perhaps when I eventually get a scanner I'll get around to rescanning it... maybe.

Though now I've watched it a few dozen times, I kind of like it the way it is :)

A Lomography Meet Up Video (plus nerd alert)

So... I'm pretty sure to serious video makers that sliding titles and swishing video animations are considered to be a bit like Word Art in Word and the animations on Powerpoint... but I just don't care. I've never played with Windows Live Movie Maker before and sometimes you just have to have a bit of fun right?

So here's the video I shot for the Leeds Lomography Xmas Meet Up, complete with Star Wars soundtrack hahaha. So fun!

(you can always mute it if you want, I won't be offended)

Have a great weekend!!

This time next week I'll be getting ready to go home for Christmas, hurray!!

p.s. you can see another video from the meet up by Darren here... 

it has his own music on it, which means....
he's much cooler than me.

My first Lomokino video!!

Are you excited?! I am! 

In fact, I'm also incredibly glad that I bought this camera, it's so fun!

As I wasn't able to get to Kirkstall Abbey in the daylight, I ended up filming one of my first Lomokino rolls walking to work... the sun has been beautiful in the morning lately creating gorgeous colours in the sky and I'm really glad that the Lomokino managed to capture that, even if the results are a little grainy.

Enjoy!