Thomas's Scarborough Photos...

We were incredibly lucky whilst we were in Scarborough that although there was snow everywhere and it was freezing, especially in the sea breeze, it was still very sunny and both Thomas and I had the opportunity to take lots of photos. I still haven't developed my photos but I loved Thomas's so much that I wanted to share some of his photos here too. 

I always love the details that Thomas notices that I don't - the texture of the snow against the sand, the huge icicles hanging from the beach huts, the snow on the cliffs in the distance... I guess last weekend counted as an extended photography date :) hurray.

Photographer: Thomas

Camera: Sony H7

Location: Scarborough.

Painting with light...

After seeing Laura and Tom's photos about experimenting with the camera settings on her digital camera, Thomas and I decided to see if we could figure out light painting on his Sony H7 camera on the beach.



{an attempt at writing my name!}




The good news is that we figured out how to do it, the bad news is that we're not that great at making it look good yet lol. I can't wait to experiment further with it, perhaps we'll get photos as lovely as Laura's next time!

Thomas's Favourite Paris Photos

Hello readers, It's Thomas here sharing my final favourite photos from Paris. I hope you are enjoyed looking at the photos that myself and Rhianne took, it was really a wonderful holiday, and one that I don’t think I will ever forget.

There were so many highlights that I cannot even think to list them all, Paris is such an amazing, vibrant city. It was impossible to not be inspired by the beautiful architecture and just the general ‘feel’ of the place. We both mentioned during the week how it was no wonder that some of the worlds most creative people came from and lived in Paris. It had this vibe that was almost electric, there was something in the air all the time (apart from the great smell of food) that was indescribable and I hope that both myself and Rhianne captured that in our photos.


{the crowds, Anna Calvi and Lykke Li at Rock en Seine}



I love taking photos (maybe not quite as much as Rhianne) but more than anything I love sharing them, looking through them and reliving all the wonderful memories and im sure we will be doing that for years to come and it has been a real privilege to share some of these photos with you. I can imagine Rhianne will share many more photos and stories of our trips to Paris (and our future travels as well I can expect).

Also, before I go, I would just like to say a big big thank you to all the amazing people that Rhianne has met on For the easily distracted. I have also been so lucky to meet Adele and Wendy who were both lovely people. It is so fantastic to hear Rhianne talk about you, she is always showing me your wonderful posts and photos on different blogs. I really hope that you enjoy reading it as much as she does writing it and taking hundreds and hundreds of photos for it.

Have a great weekend!
Thomas

Along the River Seine...

Both Thomas and I thought that our evening up the Eiffel Tower would be pretty hard to beat... we were wrong.

The next evening we decided to take a boat journey along the River Seine to relax and take in Paris from a different point of view. What we didn't expect was one of the most beautiful sunsets either of us have ever seen.



Isn't it dramatic how much the sky changed over the space of an hour! I love the contrast between the first and last photo of the Eiffel Tower.

Unfortunately it wasn't really light enough for my cameras to capture the sunset for long but the digital camera was perfect and Thomas caught the light so well (these are unedited btw). I also got to sit and enjoy the ride for the hour which I can't really complain about can I?

Photographer: Thomas
Camera: Sony H7
Location: Paris

p.s. Thomas actually managed to take over 200 photos in that hour, narrowing it down to these was pretty hard!

p.s. the eiffel tower sparkles... did you know?

It's possibly the most beautiful thing I've ever seen...

Up the Eiffel Tower...

Eeeeeeeee! We went up the Eiffel Tower! At night! To the top!

Needless to say, I was very excited about this and I still am. We hadn't planned to climb the tower on the Monday night, just visit it and have a look around the river, but there were hardly any queues to go up so we rather impulsively decided to just do it even though the top floor was closed. We queued for about 10-15 minutes I would say and then, as we got to the window to buy our tickets, the top was opened! HUZZAH!
(The nice French man said it was just for me... I believed him.)

It has to be said, Thomas was my hero that night - he doesn't like heights and he was rather uncertain at the top, but he went all the way up, he looked around and he even took photos. I'm not bothered by heights so I was practically bouncing around everywhere being generally over excited and he put up with that too.
(in fact he puts up with that most of the time, haha)









The first time I looked at these once we got back to England, I cried. I couldn't believe we'd really been there, looking at the most amazing views and taking in every that Paris at night had to offer. The photos don't really do it justice, it was stunning and a massive highlight of our visit. I want to go back.

Photographer: Thomas
Camera: Sony H7
Location: Eiffel Tower, Paris

Much Love Monday: Paris

This week is going to be dedicated to Thomas's photos in Paris here on For the easily distracted... I've said it before but he does take amazing photos and he managed to take over 1000 in Paris (which is about 300 more than me I might add...)

I love our little photography dates - Thomas with his digital camera and me with (one of my) film cameras and Paris was like a giant week long photography date. It was so much fun!

I actually got a bit carried away watching Thomas take photos this time - he sees the world differently to how I do (for one he's a lot taller than me) and a lot of the time he captured things that I didn't even see or things that I didn't want to photograph but kind of wish I had after seeing his photos... a lot of the things he noticed that I didn't was the amazing and varied grafitti around the city.





We could both see how so many amazing artists have been inspired by Paris in the past, there was creativity and art everywhere (and hearts!) and it was so easy to take photos all day long...

So today I love Thomas, I love his photos, I love Paris, I love how different cameras suit different people, I love seeing things from different points of view and I love art and inspiration being everywhere around us.

Photographer: Thomas
Camera: Sony H7
Location: Paris, France

p.s. this post is for Anna's Much Love Monday series, read more about it here to take part.