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.

The littlest member of our family...

One of my favourite parts of going home is always seeing Harry 

(and stalking him with cameras, much to his annoyance, haha)

He had no idea what was really happening with the wedding, but he did look cute in his little bow tie for his photos the day before the wedding (we think the photographer may have taken more photos of him than anyone else!) and he enjoyed napping whilst we were all running around him trying not to forget anything. Dad even managed to mention him in his Father of the Bride speech too.

p.s. Thank you to everyone who commented on yesterdays post, I quickly showed it to the newlyweds before they jetted off on Honeymoon :)

Hey girl...

...I know I'm not as cute as Ryan Gosling...


 ...But I can sure try to be...

 ....Squirrel!!

This weekend is my lickle sisters hen party... I've been organising it for a while now and I am very excited. As well as partying, I also get to see this little pup (as well as my sister and family I guess... haha) and I can't wait to squeeze his little face!

Have a great weekend!!

p.s. I crack myself up with the Hey Girl and Up references, haha.

p.s.s. On another note, I finally 'get' Ryan Gosling, um, yummy! Seeing him in Crazy, Stupid, Love may have been a deciding factor, how cute is he with Emma Stone.

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

Lake Windermere Part 3

Probably the best thing to come out of my LC-A having a little moment 

(I'll be testing the new batteries this weekend, cross all your fingers and toes...)

is that it gave me some time to dedicate to my little Diana Mini.

I know I gush about my cameras a lot, but gosh I love my Diana Mini, can you believe I actually missed not using it over the last couple of months... I think I'm going to have to work to balance my cameras out a bit better.

Also, I love this little dog's face...and my parents matching coats... and that sneaky lens flare...
and that it's the weekend. Woo.

Have a good weekend!

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.

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 :)

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

The last photos of 2011...

More ATP.


Five deer on the way to work. Five!


And walking Harry on Christmas Day.
(I love the picture of him, even if it is blurry)

Camera: Refurbished LC-A
Film: Ilford XP2 ISO 400
Location: Minehead, Leeds and Norfolk

Christmas at home...

 

We were only home in Norfolk for 5 days... but it was amazing. I ate too much, laughed a lot and got lots of hugs. Perfect!

The last photo on my left is my favourite - my cheeky sister stuck out her tongue, Harry moved and I'm barely in the photo... haha, awesome!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

p.s. The last christmas giveaway is still open!

p.s. and its nearly 2012, have a calender :)

Memories of sunshine on the beach...

Now thats its cold, windy and freezing outside, memories of sunshine and Summer (and warm hands, I miss having warm hands) seem so far away...



I've been carrying these photos in my bag since my birthday weekend away and I've only just got around to scanning them.



I think memories of sunshine on the beach with my family are my favourite.

A birthday weekend...

I've been a bit anxious about my birthday this year, it's been hard celebrating my life for the last ten years on a date when so many people lost theirs and I knew this year would be particularly poignant and upsetting. Luckily my parents and Thomas were amazing, they took me away for the weekend to the beach and I got lots of hugs and licks from Harry* (in fact he came and sat next to me that birthday morning just to lick my face, I couldn't believe it) so here are a few of my phone photos from the weekend.

I took a few fuji's on the beach too but it was kind of nice to be camera free for the weekend after carrying around 6 in Paris.

Every year on my birthday for the past ten years, I've taken a moment to remember the terrible events that happened in 2001 and then another moment to appreciate everything and everyone in my life, I am truly glad to be alive and to have such amazing people in my life (friends included, how wonderful was yesterday's post?) and all I really wanted this year was to be with the people that I love and to go on the beach... and that's what I got.

*Harry is the dog btw, its totally acceptable for him to lick my face, haha, I thought I better clarify that...

Seeing Harry tomorrow...

Hurray! And today I'm going to the beach!

Hurray It's Friday!

{More Harry Love Lomowall made on Lomography}

I'm so happy it's Friday because

~ tomorrow I get to wear a dress ~
(I actually have 3 to choose from,
I think blogging may have influenced me with dresses
it's only taken 2 years...)
~ I get to spend time with two of my bestest friends and their other halfs ~
~ I get to eat bbq and cake ~
~ and watch other people on a trampoline ~

Eep, I can't wait.

Happy weekend everyone!

p.s. Photos of Harry because I miss his little face and I love his little sticking out leg... is it weird to have a favourite leg on a pet? Probably...

It's 'roid week, woohoo!

If a giveaway wasn't exciting enough, today also marks the beginning of Roid Week 2011 on Flickr.

I love polaroid week and last year I even took part, but this is the last fuji instax wide photo I have - I'm saving to buy film for Paris now... excited!!

I can't to see everyone else's photos though - will you be taking part this year?

The many faces of Harry...

In sharing this post I'm pretty much admitting that I followed a dog around for the weekend and took lots of photos of him...

Look at that face though... I'm pretty sure anyone else would have done exactly the same thing.

Phone photos...

My phone is slowly dying... it makes me sad. So I'm slowly backing up all the photos that I've taken with it lately. These are my favourites at the moment!

Doesn't our path look pretty! I've been anxiously waiting for all the bulbs that we planted to flower and there they are, hurray! We just put seeds down for the Summer too, I hope they come up as well! Also I love when the daffodils are out around the Abbey too... and Harry's little face.

Happy weekend!!

p.s. you'd only get graffiti that looks like it says tea in England right? Haha.