Dear LC-A, I love you...

Location: Knaresborough

Film: Lomography Xpro Chrome

Camera: Refurb LC-A

Purple rain...

You can't see the rain really in these photos, but it was raining at the time honest...

Also, there are worse songs to be reminded of when looking at photos right?

This week has kind of sucked so far... work had been kicking my butt, I've finally got my site looking how I want to, but the RSS feed is suffering because of it but I don't want to change it all now that it finally looks right, I just want to somehow make the RSS feed ignore the coding, or replace it somehow? Is that even possible?! I have no idea.

sdfu;olrui52w6hsdgjasg;jasdgfa...

 is pretty much how I'm feeling right now and I think the purple stormy skies from the tungsten film  reflect that pretty well.

Camera: LC-A
Film: Lomography Tungsten 64
Location: Scarborough
 

Around the Barn...

I kind of wish I'd taken more photos of the barn with my film cameras, but I'm glad that I got a few - especially the one of the back garden area and also the barn from a distance. It really was a great destination!

Camera: Yashica Samurai
Films: Lomo CN ISO 400 and Kodak Elitechrome ISO 100
Location: Lancashire, England

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.

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).

Heysham in colour...

 {I had to take a photo of the yellow of course}
Hi Mum, Dad and Harry :) 
No idea who the boys below are though and we actually didn't see them after that either... weird. It's ok though because I'm populating my photos!


I always like to take two (or more, haha) different cameras with me to new places as they capture things so differently, the Yashica Samurai can zoom so I could capture the birds in the distance as well as the delicate flowers, whilst the Diana Mini seems more suited to tones, light and atmosphere than details.

 I do think they are both important to capture somewhere though - and also represent you and how you see things and sometimes one camera or film isn't really enough to do that...

I'm so relieved that it is Friday, this week has been busy, a bit stressful and I've sulked about things beyond my control a fair bit... but as my good friends have told me - you can only worry about the things you can change... so this evening I'm going to go home, spend the evening with my love and have a nice bottle of wine and hopefully that will be a good start to a worry free weekend.
See you next week!

Update: Before I forget - Susannah Conway's registration for the next Photo Meditations and Unravelling opens tomorrow, I can highly recommend the Photo Meditations and I have no doubt that her Unravelling course is just as amazing, so don't miss out.


Camera: Yashica Samurai
Film: Lomography Colour Negative 400
Location: Heysham

12 for 2012 - Camera 2

As part of my 'take more photos' goal for this year - I decided that I wanted to use more of the cameras that I haven't actually used before in my collection.

February's camera (this post is a little late... oops) is an Exacta 135 that I got from my friend Adam. I probably could have used it in better lighting conditions but it was February and it snowed. Overall I'm happy with the results and honestly, just glad that more photos came out than the first 12 for 2012 camera.

These photos were taken in Manchester as part of the Lomo meet up.

I still haven't started my camera for March - how bad is that? I took so many photos last month that I haven't really felt the need to take any in the last two weeks - I still have half a roll in my Yashica and Diana Mini to finish too. I've found it is best if I don't force myself to take photos if I don't fancy it though - I just end up taking bad photos and that's worse than taking none...


Camera: Exacta 135
Film: Kodak Elitechrome iso 100
Location: Manchester

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

Grasmere Part 3

I love these photos, especially the last photo! I wouldn't normally take a photo like it but the colour of the stones against the lines of the roof just sang to me and I didn't even think, I just shot it... perhaps I did learn something from Susannah's Photo Meditations, haha.


 Location: Grasmere, The Lake District 
Camera:Yashica Samurai
Film: Lomography CN 400

Grasmere Part 1

Of all the places that we visited over Mum's birthday weekend, Grasmere was my favourite. It was quaint and lovely, exactly what you would expect from the Lake District, with gorgeous little cottages, stone walls and the most amazing gingerbread I've ever eaten.
(Oh how I looove gingerbread)



I actually didn't realise that Grasmere was also the home of William Wordsworth until we got to the church and walked around to see the grave...which is funny as the main reason that the village is so popular is because of him, but honestly I think it would be just as popular anyway, it is such a delightful little place.



Grasmere is also home to a Herdy shop, which I personally found more exciting - I love that little sheep face - though the photo isn't that great, but I don't care. I kind of wish I'd bought some of these now... and some mugs, maybe a tea towel... I want it all!


Location: Gramere, The Lake District
Camera: Yashica Samurai
Film: Lomography CN 400