Dear LC-A, I love you...

Location: Knaresborough

Film: Lomography Xpro Chrome

Camera: Refurb LC-A

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

Polaroids from last week...

Our week off was a week of two halves. The first couple of days we chilled out and relaxed (I started and completed Stacking, hehe, it is so fun!) and the last few days we went exploring. On Wednesday we hopped on the train and went to Knaresborough and Harrogate (they're on the same train line) and I took my polaroid land camera too.

I've struggled a little with the development time with this film - I think mainly due to the colder weather here in England, the first two are a little underexposed and then getting this film to scan well is hard, you'll have to trust me that they look better in person lol.

The first three are from Knaresborough, easily the prettiest place in England (I think anyway) and the last photo was taken in a stunning park that we found in Harrogate - I was delighted when the sun came out and formed the shadows across the floor.

I'm a little apprehensive about using the colour film with this camera as I know it takes a lot longer to develop and like all films, this film is precious but I also can't wait to see the results too especially as these black and white results are so pretty, even though they aren't perfect.


p.s. Susannah shared The Conversation last week and I've watched 5 already in a day, have you seen it?

More Knaresborough...

So I took a lot of photos in Knaresborough - it's just so photogenic, these are the last though don't worry... though I still have two rolls of film to share yet from other places we visited that weekend... In fact I still have some from April but those will have to wait I guess.


{I love his face!}


{My Mum and Me - taken by Thomas}


I'm really glad that I've picked up my little holga again... I think I've missed her.

Location: Knaresborough , North Yorkshire, England
Camera: Holga 135bc
Film: Expired ISO 400 Boots Film

Knaresborough - Capturing the details with my holga...

Since experimenting with expired film with my Ricoh (which I need to take out again) I've been dying to try it out in other cameras - last weekend was the perfect opportunity to try it with my wee Helga the Holga.

The fun of taking two cameras around with you all the time is trying to balance what to take photos of - it's easy to take the same picture twice but I think I've finally craked it - one to capture to details, one to capture the 'feel'... The redscale in my superheadz captured the feel of Knaresborough wonderfully and it left me free to capture the details of Knaresborough and to experiment with the focus a little more with my holga.



I'm really beginning to enjoy capturing the details that perhaps others might not see - the beautiful letter box, the battered old signs, the lovely colours in the windows... they take my breath away. And I just love the cat...

Happy weekend!
I'm going to try not to take too many photos, I still have too many to share :)

p.s. G - did you see the name of the road in one of the pictures? You'll like it...

p.p.s. I just noticed that Harry snuck into the last photo, this makes me happy.

Knaresborough Redscale Part 2

It seems I am quite taken with walking along a river, taking a lot of photos of boats and forcing Thomas to have his photo taken (hehe)

Location: Knaresborough , North Yorkshire, England
Camera: Superheadz yellow peace
Film: Lomography Redscale XR

Knaresborough Redscale Part 1

One of our favourite things about living in Leeds is that it is so close to so many other amazing places and they are so easy to get to. Whilst our Dad's spent the day at the cricket (also close to our house) we took our Mum's and Harry on the train to Knaresborough - a little market town just a few stops away.

I love Knaresborough, it is easily one of the prettiest places that I have ever been too, we visited last year but this time it was so much more fun with our family and cameras!


As well as being a lovely market town Knaresborough also has ruins of a Castle where you had the most amazing view along River Nidd (hehe) to the beautiful viaduct. It was so easy to stand there and just absorb everything...

Location: Knaresborough , North Yorkshire, England
Camera: Superheadz yellow peace
Film: Lomography Redscale XR

p.s. I'm still loving this film/camera combination...